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Dido and Aeneas and Music for Plays & Masques Purcell; Nancy Maultsby, Susannah Waters, Russell Braun, Laura Tucker, Richard Clement, Sharon Baker, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman

Release: 29 Oct 1996 United States, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD, Tracks: 38, Length: 1:10:00, Barcode: 089408042423
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 Dido and Aeneas: Overture 1:50
2 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Shake the cloud from off your brow” / “Banish sorrow” 1:04
3 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” 3:34
4 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Grief increases by concealing” / “When monarchs unite” 0:47
5 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Whence could so much virtue spring” 1:45
6 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Fear no danger to ensue” 1:30
7 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “See your royal guest appears” / “Cupid only throws the dart” 1:26
8 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” 1:12
9 Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “To the hills and the vales” / The Triumphing Dance 2:07
10 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: Prelude for the Witches / “Wayward sisters” 2:37
11 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?” 1:10
12 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “But ere we this perform” 1:12
13 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “In our deep vaulted cell” / Echo Dance of the Furies 2:21
14 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle / “Thanks to these lonesome vales” 3:01
15 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Oft she visits this lone mountain” 1:33
16 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Behold upon my bending spear” / “Haste, haste to town” 1:19
17 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Stay, Prince, and hear” 2:23
18 Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle 0:39
19 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: Prelude / “Come away fellow sailors” / The Sailors’ Dance 2:16
20 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “See the flags and streamers curling” 0:56
21 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “Our next motion” / “Destruction’s our delight” 1:09
22 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: The Witches’ Dance 1:09
23 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Your counsel all is urged in vain” 3:20
24 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “But death, alas, I cannot shun” / “Great minds against themselves conspire” 1:18
25 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Thy hand Belinda” / “When I am laid in earth” 4:09
26 Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “With drooping wings ye Cupids come” 4:28
27 Abdelazer: Overture 3:01
28 Abdelazer: Roundeau 1:21
29 Abdelazer: Air 1:20
30 The Gordian Knot Unty’d: Minuet 1:32
31 The Gordian Knot Unty’d: Air 1:13
32 Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune on a Ground 1:59
33 The Fairy Queen: Rondeau 1:28
34 The Fairy Queen: Hornpipe 0:58
35 The Fairy Queen: Overture 1:27
36 The Fairy Queen: Dance for the Fairies 1:05
37 The Fairy Queen: Chaconne 2:37
38 The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a Ground 1:29

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