Dido and Aeneas Z 626
Steven Devine, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Choir of the Enlightenment, Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (Baritone), Lucy Crowe (Soprano), Sarah Tynan (Soprano), Patricia Bardon (Mezzo-soprano), Carys Lane (Soprano), Rebecca Outram (Soprano), William Purefoy (Countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (Tenor)
June 2008, London, St Silas the Martyr
- 02:03Overture
Act I
- 01:08No. 1 Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
- 06:40No. 2 Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
- 00:51No. 3-4 Grief increases by concealing - When monarchs unite (Belinda, Dido, Chorus)
- 01:57No. 5 Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)
- 02:26No. 6. Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
- 00:53No. 7 See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
- 00:41No. 8 Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
- 00:24No. 9 If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)
- 00:46No. 10 Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)
- 02:33No. 10b A Dance gittars chacony (Guitar Dance: Chaconne)
- 01:04No. 11 To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
- 01:27No. 12 The Triumphing Dance
Act II
- 01:58No. 13 Prelude for the Witches – Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress, First Witch)
- 00:15No. 14 Harms our delight and mischief all our skill (Chorus)
- 00:41No. 15-16 The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate - Ho! ho! ho! (Sorceress, Chorus)
- 01:12No. 17-18 Ruin'd ere the set of sun? - Ho! ho! ho! (Witches, Sorceress, Chorus)
- 01:14No. 19 But, ere we this perform (First Witch, Second Witch)
- 01:19No. 20 In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus)
- 01:17No. 21 Echo Dance of the Furies
- 00:50No. 22 Ritornelle
- 03:00No. 23 Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus)
- 03:06No. 23b Gittar ground - a dance (Guitar Dance: Passacaille)
- 01:48No. 24 Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)
- 00:34No. 25 Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas, Dido)
- 00:49No. 26 Haste, haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
- 02:39No. 27 Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
- 01:32No. 27b Then since our charms have sped (Chorus)
Act III
- 01:34No. 28 Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus)
- 00:44No. 29 The Sailors' Dance
- 01:02No. 30a See, see the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, Witches)
- 00:41No. 30b Our next motion must be to storm her lover (Sorceress)
- 00:35No. 31 Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
- 01:22No. 32 The Witches' Dance
- 07:48No. 33 Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
- 01:01No. 34 Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
- 01:02No. 35 Thy hand, Belinda (Dido)
- 04:03No. 36 When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament)
- 04:53No. 37 With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)
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