Purcell: Didon et Enée & The Tempest (Les indispensables de Diapason)

Sir Anthony Lewis & Dame Janet Baker

2024-09-27 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
  2:16
• 2
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 1. Solo and Chorus, "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda, Chorus)
  1:03
• 3
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 2. Song, "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest, with Torment Not to Be Confest" (Dido) - No. 3. Recitative, "Grief Increasing by Concealing" (Belinda, Dido) - No. 4. Chorus, "When Monarchs Unite How Happy Their State"
  4:40
• 4
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 5. Recitative, "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?" (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman)
  2:00
• 5
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 6. Duet and Chorus, "Fear No Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) - Dance this Chorus, the Baske
  1:33
• 6
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: No. 7. Recitative, "See, your Royal Guest" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) - No. 8. Chorus, "Cupid Only" - No. 9. Recitative, "If not " - No. 10. Air, "Pursue Thy conquest" (Aeneas, Belinda) - No. 11. Chorus, "To the hills"
  4:52
• 7
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 13. Prelude for the Witches, "Wayward sisters" (Sorceress, First Witch) - No. 14. Chorus, "Harm's Our Delight" - No. 15. Recitative, "The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate" (Sorceress) - No. 16. Chorus, "Ho ho"
  3:06
• 8
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 17. Recitative, "Ruin'd E're the Set of Sun?" (Witches, Sorceress) - No. 18. Chorus, "Ho ho" - No. 19. Duet, "But E're We this Perform" (Witches) - No. 20. Chorus, "In our deep" - No. 21. Echo Dance of Furies
  5:02
• 9
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: No. 22. Ritornelle - No. 23. Song and Chorus, "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus) - Dance
  3:27
• 10
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 24. Song, "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" (Second Woman) - A Dance to Entertain Aeneas
  2:22
• 11
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 25. Recitative, "Behold upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido) - No. 26. Song and Chorus, "Haste to town this open field" (Belinda, Chorus)
  1:22
• 12
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: No. 27. Recitative, "Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove's Command" (Spirit, Aeneas, Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) - The Groves Dance
  2:46
• 13
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: No. 28. Prelude, Song and Chorus, "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" (First Sailor, Chorus) - No. 29. The Sailors' Dance
  2:25
• 14
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: No. 30. Recitative and Song, "See the Flags and Streamers Curling" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) - No. 31. Chorus, "Destruction's our Delight" - No. 32. The Witches' Dance
  3:24
• 15
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 33. Recitative, "Your Councel All Is Urg'd in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
  3:26
• 16
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 34. Recitative, "But Death, Alas!" (Dido) - No. 35. Chorus, "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" - No. 36. Recitative, "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido) - No. 37. Song, "When I Am Laid in Earth" (Dido)
  6:27
• 17
  Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: No. 38. Chorus, "With Drooping Wings"
  2:39
• 18
  The Tempest, Z. 631, Act I: No. 3. Song, "Arise Ye Subterranean Winds" (Spirit I)
  3:09
• 19
  The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 16. Recitative and Song, "Aeolus You Must Appear ... While These Pass O'er the Deep" (Neptune)
  3:48
• 20
  The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 17. Recitative and Song, "Your Awful Voice I Hear and Obey ... Come Down my Blusterers" (Aeolus)
  4:47
• 21
  The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 18. Song, "Halcyon Days, Now Wars Are Ending" (Amphitrite)
  5:47
• 22
  The Tempest, Z. 631, Act IV: No. 19. Song, "See the Heavens Smile" (Neptune)
  4:50