tracks

Overture
Song (Belinda) & Chorus, Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow
Song (Dido), Ah! Belinda
Recitative & Song (Belinda, Dido & Second Woman), Grief Increases By Concealing
Chorus, When Monarchs Unite
Duet (Belinda & Second Woman) & Chorus, Fear No Danger To Ensue
Dance
Recitative (Belinda, Aeneas & Dido), See, Your Royal Guest Appears
Chorus, Cupid Only Throws The Dart
Recitative (Aeneas), If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake
Song (Belinda), Pursue Thy Conquest, Love
Dance (Guitar's Chacony)
Chorus, To The Hills And The Vales
The Triumphing Dance
Prelude For The Witches
Recitative (Sorceress), Wayward Sisters
Chorus, Harm's Our Delight
Recitative (Sorceress), The Queen Of Cartaghe, Whom We Hate
Chorus, Ho Ho Ho
Recitative (Enchantresses & Sorceress), Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun?
Chorus, Ho Ho Ho
Duet (Enchantresses), But Ere We This Perform
Chorus, In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
Echo Dance (Enchantresses & Furies)
(Ritornelle)
Song (Belinda) & Chorus, Thanks To These Lonesome Vales
Dance (Guitar Ground)
Song (Second Woman), Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain
A Dance To Entertain Aeneas (Dido's Women)
Recitative (Aeneas & Dido), Behold, Upon My Bending Spear
Song (Belinda) & Chorus, Haste, Haste To Town
Recitative (Spirit & Aeneas), Stay, Prince
Chorus
Dance
(Prelude)
Song (Sailor) & Chorus, Come Away, Fellow Sailors
The Sailor's Dance
Recitative & Duet (Sorceress & Enchantresses), See The Flags And Streamers Curling
Song (Sorceress), Our Next Motion
Chorus, Destruction's Our Delight
Dance (The Witches' Dance)
Recitative (Dido, Belinda & Aeneas), Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain
Chorus, Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
Recitative (Dido), Thy Hand, Belinda
Song (Dido), When I Am Laid In Earth
Chorus, With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come
Dance (Cupids)

notes

Total time = 56:08.
Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, London, on 3/4/5 January 1981.
Digital recording; mastered and edited on Chandos Complete PCM Digital System.
Pitch: A-403; period instruments.
Track numbering in booklet in error (track 6 missing), no timings provided.
This version produced in connection with the Open University; disc marked 'Public Domain'.
Made & printed in Germany.

credits

Artwork By [Front Cover Painting: Detail Of Aeneas And Dido At Carthage] – Claude Gelée (Lorraine)
Artwork By [Sleeve Design] – Gary Thorpe
Bass [-baritone] Vocals [Aeneas] – David Thomas (9)
Choir – Taverner Choir
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Conductor – Andrew Parrott
Engineer – Ralph Couzens
Libretto By – Nahum Tate
Liner Notes – Richard Luckett
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Jantina Noorman
Orchestra – Taverner Players
Producer – Brian Couzens
Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Judith Nelson
Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Emma Kirkby
Soprano Vocals [Enchantress, Sailor] – Rachel Bevan
Soprano Vocals [Enchantress] – Emily Van Evera
Soprano Vocals [Second Woman] – Judith Rees
Soprano Vocals [Spirit] – Tessa Bonner
Violin [Leader] – John Holloway

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