Performer: Purcell
Genre: Classical
Album: Dido & Aeneas
Released: 2001
Style: Opera, Baroque
MP3 version ZIP size: 1719 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1648 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1863 mb
Rating: 4.8
Votes: 822
Other Formats: MIDI ADX MP1 AAC FLAC DMF MMF

Tracklist

Dido & Aeneas
1	Overture	2:36
Act I
2	Belinda: Shake The Cloud	0:59
3	Dido: Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest	3:49
4	Belinda: Grief Increase By Conceiling	0:36
5	Chorus: When Monarchs Unite	0:14
6	Dido: Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?	1:39
7	Belinda, Second Woman: Fear No Danger To Ensue	1:25
8	Belinda: See, Your Royal Guest Appears	0:47
9	Chorus: Cupid Only Throws The Dart	0:51
10	Aeneas: If Not For Mine	0:23
11	Belinda: Persue Thy Conquest	0:46
12	Chorus: To The Hills And The Vales	1:13
13	The Triumphing Dance	1:10
Act II
14	Prelude For The Witches	2:05
15	Chorus: Harm's Our Delight	0:29
16	Sorceress: The Queen Of Carthage	0:30
17	Chorus: Ho, Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!	1:20
18	Two Witches: But Ere We This Perform	1:14
19	Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell	1:34
20	Echo Dance Of Furies	1:03
21	Ritornelle	0:53
22	Belinda: Thanks To These Lovesome Vales	2:43
23	Second Woman: Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain	2:18
24	Aeneas: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear	0:31
25	Belinda: Haste, Haste To Town	0:43
26	Spirit: Stay, Prince And Hear Great Jove's Command	2:37
27	Chorus: Then Since Our Charms Have Sped	0:35
28	The Grove's Dance	0:56
Act III
29	Prelude	1:33
30	Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors	0:57
31	Sorceress: See The Flags And Streamers Curling	0:55
32	Sorceress: Our Next Motion	0:56
33	Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight	1:03
34	The Witches' Dance	2:30
35	Dido: Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain	3:46
36	Chorus: Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire	1:22
37	Dido: Thy Hand, Belinda	0:51
38	Dido: When I Am Laid In Earth	4:03
39	Chorus: With Dropping Wings Ye Cupids Come	5:19

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Harmonia Mundi s.a.
• Recorded At – Henry Wood Hall, London
• Pressed By – Sonopress – A-46170

Credits

• Alto Recorder – Rachel Beckett
• Baritone Vocals [Aeneas] – Gerald Finley
• Bassoon – Philipp Turbett*
• Cello – Catherine Finnis
• Cello [Basso Continuo] – Susan Sheppard
• Chorus – Clare College Chapel Choir*
• Chorus Master – Timothy Brown
• Composed By – Henry Purcell
• Conductor – René Jacobs
• Countertenor Vocals [First Witch] – Dominique Visse
• Countertenor Vocals [Second Witch] – Stephen Wallace
• Countertenor Vocals [Spirit] – Robin Blaze
• Design [Maquette] – Relations, Arles
• Edited By [Montage] – Adrian Hunter
• Harpsichord, Organ [Basso Continuo] – John Toll
• Liner Notes [English Translation] – Derek Yeld
• Liner Notes [French & English] – René Jacobs
• Liner Notes [French] – Marielle D. Khoury
• Liner Notes [German Translation] – Heidi Fritz
• Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
• Painting [Front Cover] – Samacchini Orazio*
• Photography By [D. Visse] – Eric Larrayadieu
• Photography By [G. Finley] – Suzie E. Maeder*
• Photography By [L. Dawson, S. Bickley] – Jim Four
• Photography By [M. C. Kiehr] – Alvaro Yañez
• Photography By [R. Jacobs] – Vincent Pancol
• Photography By [R. Joshua] – Carole Parody
• Producer [Direction Artistique] – Nicholas Parker
• Recorded By [Prise De Son] – Tim Handley
• Recorder – Anthony Robson, Catherine Latham
• Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Rosemary Joshua
• Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Lynne Dawson
• Soprano Vocals [Second Woman] – Maria Cristina Kiehr
• Soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Susan Bickley
• Tenor Vocals [First Sailor] – John Bowen
• Theorbo, Guitar [Basso Continuo] – Liz Kenny*, Nigel North, Paula Chateauneuf
• Viola – Annette Isserlis, Jan Schlapp, Katherine Hart
• Violin – Alison Bury, Catherine Ford, Catherine Mackintosh, Catherine Weiis*, Claire Sansom, Helen Orsler, Henrietta Wayne, Roy Mowatt, Susan Carpenter-Jacobs*
• Violone [Basso Continuo], Viol [Viole De Gambe - Basso Continuo] – Mark Levy

Notes

Ⓟ 2001 harmonia mundi s.a., Arles. Total time: 59'33. Made in Germany.
Recorded October 1998 at Henry Wood Hall, London.
Cover illustration: Painting by Samacchini Orazio (16th century), "Mercure ordonne à Enée d'abandonner Didon";
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo RMN, J.G. Berizzi.

The 48-page glossy booklet contains notes in French, English and German plus a track and credits-list.
It also contains the sung-texts in original English and the translations into French and German plus photos.
Booklet and CD are sheltered by standard jewel case with black tray.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 7 94881 62972 5
• Label Code: LC 7045
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Price Code: HM 90
• Matrix / Runout: [Sonopress logo] A-46170/ HMC901683 A
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L0 30
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 0737

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
HMG 501683	Purcell* / Lynne Dawson, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, René Jacobs, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment	Purcell* / Lynne Dawson, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, René Jacobs, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment - Dido & Aeneas ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Harmonia Mundi	HMG 501683	Europe	2018
HMX 2991683	Purcell* / Lynne Dawson, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, René Jacobs	Purcell* / Lynne Dawson, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, René Jacobs - Dido & Aeneas ‎(CD, RE)	Harmonia Mundi	HMX 2991683	France	2006