tracks

Overture
Act I, The Palace
Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus)
Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest (Dido, Belinda, Chorus)
Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)
Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belins, 2nd Woman, Chorus)
See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido, Chorus)
The Triumphing Dance
Act II Scene 1, The Cave
Prelude For the Witches
Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress, Witches, Chorus)
In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus)
Echo Dance
Act II Scene 2, The Grove
Ritornelle
Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain (2nd Woman)
Behold, Upon My Bending Spear (Aeneas, Dido Belinda, Chorus)
Stay, Prince (Spirit, Aeneas)
Then Since Our Charmes Have Sped (Chorus)
The Groves Dance
Act III, The Ships
Prelude
Come Away, Fellow Sailors (First Sailor)
The Sailors' Dance
See The Flags And Steamers Curling (Sorceress, Witches, Chorus)
A Dance
Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
But Death, Alas! I Cannot Shun (Dido, Chorus)
Thy Hand Belinda (Dido)
When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido)
With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come (Chorus)
Act III, Scene 3
Starke Scheite Schichten Mir Dort (Brunnhilde's Immolation)

notes

Digital recording from original LP disks. 1-28 recorded March 1952; 29 recorded 1949.
Original LP Release Catalogue ALP 1026

credits

Cello – Raymond Clark (tracks: 1-28)
Chorus, Orchestra – The Mermaid Singers And Orchestra (tracks: 1-28)
Conductor – Geraint Jones (2) (tracks: 1-28), Wilhelm Furtwängler (tracks: 29)
Libretto By – Nahum Tate (tracks: 1-28)
Liner Notes – Alan Bilgora
Orchestra – Philharmonia Orchestra (tracks: 29)
Performer [Aeneas] – Thomas Hemsley (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [Belinda, Spirit, Second lady] – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [Dido] – Kirsten Flagstad (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [First Witch] – Sheila Rex (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [Sailor] – David Lloyd (3) (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [Second Witch] – Anna Pollak (tracks: 1-28)
Performer [Sorceress] – Arda Mandikian (tracks: 1-28)
Soprano Vocals – Kirsten Flagstad

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Wyastone Estate Limited
Copyright (c) – Wyastone Estate Limited
Made By – Nimbus Records
Recorded At – No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

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