tracks

Overture
Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus)
Ah! Ah! Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd (Dido)
Grief Increase By Concealing (Belinda, Dido)
When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus)
Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)
Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
See, See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Aeneas)
Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus)
If Not Or Mine, For Empire's Sake (Aeneas)
Pursue Thy Conquest, Love, Her Eyes (Belinda)
To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus)
The Triumphing Dance
Prelude For The Witches (Sorceress)
Harm's Your Delight (Chorus)
The Queen Of Carthage (Sorceress)
Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus)
Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun? (First Witch, Sorceress)
Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus)
But Ere We This Perform (First And Second Sorceress)
In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus, In The Manner Of An Echo)
Echo Dance Of Furies
Ritornelle (Orchestra)
Thank To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Oft She Visits (Second Woman)
Behold Upon My Bleeding Spear (Aeneas, Dido)
Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda, Chorus)
Stay, Prince (Spirit, Aeneas)
Praeludium "Come Away" (Sailor, Chorus)
The Sailor's Dance
See, See (Sorceress, First Witch)
Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
Destruction's Our Delight (Chorus)
The Witches' Dance
Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus)
Thy Hand, Belinda (Dido - Recitative)
When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido)
With Drooping Wings (Chorus)

notes

Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London, in February 1977

credits

Choir – The English Chamber Choir
Chorus Master – Geoffrey Shaw
Composed By – Purcell,
Concept By [Series] – Matthew Cosgrove
Conductor – Raymond Leppard
Coordinator [Series] – Vicky Owen
Design – Smith & Gilmour
Engineer – Pierre Lavoix
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [First Witch/Spirit] – Alfreda Hodgson
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Patricia Kern
Orchestra – English Chamber Orchestra
Recording Supervisor – Michel Garcin
Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Felicity Palmer
Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Tatiana Troyanos
Soprano Vocals [Second Witch] – Linn Maxwell
Soprano Vocals [Second Woman] – Elizabeth Gale
Tenor Vocals [Aeneas] – Richard Stilwell
Tenor Vocals [Sailor] – Philip Langridge

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Erato Disques S.A.
Copyright (c) – Warner Classics UK Ltd.
Made By – Warner Music Manufacturing Europe

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