HENRY PURCELL Dido & Aeneas (CD)

HENRY PURCELL (c.1659-1695)
Dido & Aeneas

1 Overture 1:51

Act I

Scene the Palace
2 “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda)
3 “Ah! Belinda” (Dido)
4 “Whence could so much virtue spring” (Dido)
5 “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda)
6 “If not for mine” (Aeneas)
7 “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus)

Act II

Scene the Cave
8 Prelude for the Witches. “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress)
9 “But ere we this perform” (Witches)
10 “In our deep-vaulted cell” (Chorus)

Scene the Grove
11 Ritornelle. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda)
12 “Oft she visits” (Second Woman)
13 “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas)
14 “Stay, Prince” (Spirit)

Act III

Scene the Ships
15 Prelude. Come away, fellow sailors (First Sailor)
16 See the flags (Sorceress)
17 The Witches’ Dance

Scene the Palace
18 Your counsel all is urg’d in vain (Dido)
19 Great minds (Chorus)
20 Thy hand, Belinda (Dido)
21 With drooping wings. (Chorus)

Laura Pudwell, Dido & Sorceress
Peter Harvey, Aeneas
Salomé Haller, Belinda & First Witch
Marie-Louise Duthoit, Second Woman & Second Witch
Nicolas Maire, The Sailor
Matthew White, The Spirit

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, conductor