Dido & Æneas

Tracklist

Dido & Æneas, Opera In Three Acts
1	Overture	1:56
Act I
2	Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus)	1:03
3	Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment (Dido)	3:36
4	Grief Increases By Concealing (Belinda, Dido) / When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus)	0:45
5	Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)	1:54
6	Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belinda, Chorus)	1:33
7	See Our Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Æneas) / Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus)	1:10
8	If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake (Æneas) / Pursue Thy Conquest, Love (Belinda) / To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus)	2:14
9	The Triumphing Dance	1:08
Act II
- Scene 1
10	Prelude For The Witches / Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress) / Harm's Our Delight (Chorus)	2:15
11	The Queen Of Carthage (Sorceress) / Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus) / Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun? (First Witch, Sorceress) / Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus)	1:52
12	But Ere We This Perform (First And Second Witches)	1:10
13	In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus In The Manner Of An Echo) / Echo Dance Of Furies	2:23
- Scene 2
14	Ritornelle / Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)	3:35
15	Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman)	1:55
16	Behold Upon My Bending Spear (Æneas, Dido) / Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda, Chorus)	1:13
17	Stay Prince (Spirit, Æneas)	2:04
18	Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped (Chorus) / The Grove's Dance	1:23
Act III
- Scene 1
19	Prelude / Come Away (Sailor, Chorus) / The Sailor's Dance	2:20
20	See, See The Flags (Sorceress, First Witch) / Our Next Motion (Sorceress)	1:41
21	Destruction's Our Delight (Chorus)	0:31
22	The Witches' Dance	1:35
- Scene 2
23	Your Councel All Is Urged In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Æneas)	3:35
24	Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus) / Thy Hand, Belinda (Dido)	2:02
25	When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido)	3:46
26	With Drooping Wings (Chorus)	2:54

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Erato Disques S.A.
• Record Company – BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. – D 143808

Credits

• Alto Vocals [Chorus] – Steve Dugardin
• Baritone Vocals [Bass-baritone] [Æneas] – Nathan Berg
• Bass Vocals [Chorus] – Jonathan Arnold
• Cello – Emmanuel Balssa
• Composed By – Henry Purcell
• Conductor, Harpsichord – William Christie
• Cover [Painting] – Simon Vouet
• Edited By [Digital] – Adrian Hunter
• Engineer – Jean Chatauret
• Ensemble – Les Arts Florissants
• Flute – Hugo Reyne
• Liner Notes – Andrew R. Walking, Bruce Wood
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Claire Brua
• Music Consultant [Linguistic] – Noëlle Barker*
• Oboe – Geoffrey Burgess
• Producer, Edited By – Nicholas Parker
• Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Sophie Marin-Degor
• Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Véronique Gens
• Soprano Vocals [Second Witch] – Gaëlle Mechaly*
• Soprano Vocals [Second Woman, First Witch] – Sophie Daneman
• Tenor Vocals [Spirit, Sailor] – Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
• Theorbo – Jonathan Rubin
• Viola – Galina Zinchenko
• Violin – Hiro Kurosaki, Mihoko Kimura

Notes

28 page front insert includes complete lyrics.
Recording: 8-11/11/1994, Théâtre-Opéra de Massy (Essonne, France)
62-pages booklet with libretto
Total time: 51:54

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
4509-98477-2	Purcell* - Gens*, Marin-Degor*, Brua*, Berg*, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie	Purcell* - Gens*, Marin-Degor*, Brua*, Berg*, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie - Dido & Æneas ‎(CD, Album)	Erato	4509-98477-2	Europe	1995