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Genre:	Classical
Style:	Opera, Baroque
Year:	1995

Tracklist

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

Credits (32)

Steve Dugardin
Alto Vocals [Chorus]
Nathan Berg
Baritone Vocals [Bass-baritone] [Æneas]
Jonathan Arnold
Bass Vocals [Chorus]
Emmanuel Balssa
Cello
Henry Purcell
Composed By
William Christie
Conductor, Harpsichord

Notes

Recording: 8-11 November 1994, Théâtre-Opéra de Massy (Essonne, France)

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Image	,	–			In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Version Details	Data Quality
	Dido & Æneas CD, Album	Erato – 4509-98477-2	Europe	1995	Europe — 1995	Recently Edited
	Dido & Æneas CD, Album, Club Edition	Erato – 4509-98477-2	US	1995	US — 1995	New Submission
	Dido & Æneas CD, Album	Erato – 2564 65988 0	Europe	1995	Europe — 1995	New Submission
	Dido & Æneas CD, Album, Reissue	Erato – 4509-98477-2	Europe	2002	Europe — 2002	New Submission