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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Anne Sofie von Otter (Dido), Stephen Varcoe (Aeneas), Lynne Dawson (Belinda), Nigel Rogers (Sorceress/Sailor), Sarah Leonard (Second Woman), Kym Amps (Spirit), Carol Hall, Elisabeth Priday (Witches)

The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock

Release Date: 1st Jul 1989
Catalogue No: E4276242
Label: DG Archiv
Length: 53 minutes

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1

Work length16:30

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Lynne Dawson (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Sarah Leonard (soprano)
The English Concert, The English Concert Choir
Trevor Pinnock
Recorded: 1988-07-22
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Overture

Track length2:19

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"Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow" - "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care"

Track length1:02

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"Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd" ... "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy"

Track length4:43

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"Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" - "Fear No Danger"

Track length3:32

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"See, Your Royal Guest Appears" - "Cupid Only Throws the Dart"

Track length1:26

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"If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" ... "To the Hills and the Vales"

Track length2:18

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The Triumphing Dance

Track length1:10

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2

Work length17:06

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Kym Amps (soprano), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Carol Hall (soprano), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
The English Concert, The English Concert Choir
Trevor Pinnock
Recorded: 1988-07-22
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Prelude for the Witches "Wayward Sisters" ... "Ho, ho, ho"

Track length2:33

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"Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun" ... "But Ere We This Perform"

Track length2:21

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"In Our Deep Vaulted Cell"

Track length1:41

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Echo Dance of Furies

Track length0:54

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Ritornelle - "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales"

Track length3:19

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"Oft She Visits"

Track length2:16

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"Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" - "Haste, Haste to Town"

Track length1:22

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"Stay, Prince"

Track length2:40

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3

Work length19:54

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Nigel Rogers (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Carol Hall (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The English Concert, The English Concert Choir
Trevor Pinnock
Recorded: 1988-07-22
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

Prelude - "Come Away, Fellow Sailors"

Track length1:32

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The Sailors' Dance "See the Flags and Streamers Curling"

Track length1:42

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"Our Next Motion" - "Destructions's Our Delight"

Track length1:13

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The Witches' Dance

Track length1:12

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"Your Counsel All is Urg'd in Vain" - "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire"

Track length5:01

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"Thy Hand, Belinda...When I Am Laid in Earth"

Track length4:21

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"With Drooping Wings"

Track length4:53

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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