Henry Purcell (10th September 1659 – 21st November 1695), was an English co… Read Full Bio ↴Henry Purcell (10th September 1659 – 21st November 1695), was an English composer of the Baroque period.
He is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers — indeed, he has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.
He is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers — indeed, he has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music.
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01Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster): Overture (Orchestra)3:08Nahum Tate
02Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Shake the clod from off your brow (Belinda)1:09Nahum Tate
03Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)3:28Nahum Tate
04Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda)0:55Nahum Tate
05Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido)2:11Nahum Tate
06Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda)1:40Nahum Tate
07Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda)1:17Nahum Tate
08Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)0:34Nahum Tate
09Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Remastered Version), ACT 1: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)0:25Sheila Rex
10Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)0:48Nahum Tate
11Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: To the hills and the vales (Chorus)1:15Nahum Tate
12Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 1: The Triumphing Dance (Orchestra)1:20Nahum Tate
13Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches (Orchestra)1:30Nahum Tate
14Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress)1:35Nahum Tate
15Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Remastered Version), ACT 2, Scene 1: Harms our delight and mischief all our skill (Chorus)0:18Sheila Rex
16Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)0:48Nahum Tate
17Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (Two Witches)1:29Nahum Tate
18Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (Two Witches)1:14Nahum Tate
19Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Echo Chorus)1:16Nahum Tate
20Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 1: Echo Dance of the Furies (Orchestra)1:03Nahum Tate
21Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Ritornelle (Orchestra)0:28Nahum Tate
22Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda)1:43Nahum Tate
23Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)2:06Nahum Tate
24Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas)0:36Nahum Tate
25Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Remastered Version), ACT 2, Scene 2: Haste, haste to town (Belinda)0:46Sheila Rex
26Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit)2:43Nahum Tate
27Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 2, Scene 2: Then since our charms have sped (Chorus)1:13Nahum Tate
28Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1, Prelude: Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing (First Sailor)1:49Nahum Tate
29Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1: The Sailors' Dance (Orchestra)0:43Nahum Tate
30Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1: See, see the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress)0:56Nahum Tate
31Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1: Our next motion must be to storm her lover (Sorceress)0:41Nahum Tate
32Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus)0:35Nahum Tate
33Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1: The Witches' Dance (Orchestra)1:31Nahum Tate
34Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido)4:41Nahum Tate
35Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)1:15Nahum Tate
36Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido)1:05Nahum Tate
37Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 - Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido)4:00Kirsten Flagstad/Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Eilidh McNab/Arda Mandikian/Sheila Rex/Anna Pollak/Thomas Hemsley/David Lloyd/Mermaid Singers/Mermaid Orchestra/Geraint Jones
38Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Remastered Version), ACT 3, Scene 2: With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)4:37Sheila Rex
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
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