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PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas (Flagstad, Schwarzkopf, Hemsley) (1952)


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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626- 00:58:41
1 Overture 00:03:09
2 Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus) 00:01:10
3 Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido) 00:03:26
4 Act I: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus) 00:00:57
5 Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda) 00:02:12
6 Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus) 00:01:40
7 Act I: See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) 00:01:17
8 Act I: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus) 00:00:35
9 Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas) 00:00:24
10 Act I: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda) 00:00:49
11 Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus) 00:01:15
12 Act I: The Triumphing Dance 00:01:18
13 Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches 00:01:28
14 Act II Scene 1: Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch) 00:01:35
15 Act II Scene 1: Harm's our delight (Chorus) 00:00:19
16 Act II Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress, Chorus) 00:00:48
17 Act II Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress, Chorus) 00:01:30
18 Act II Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (1st and 2nd Witches) 00:01:15
19 Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus) 00:01:16
20 Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies 00:01:01
21 Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle 00:00:29
22 Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus) 00:01:44
23 Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (2nd Woman) 00:02:06
24 Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido) 00:00:36
25 Act II Scene 2: Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus) 00:00:47
26 Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas) 00:02:43
27 Act II Scene 2: Then since our Charm's have sped (Chorus) 00:01:07
28 Act III Scene 1: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus) 00:01:48
29 Act III Scene 1: The Sailor's Dance 00:00:43
30 Act III Scene 1: See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches) 00:00:56
31 Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress) 00:00:41
32 Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus) 00:00:35
33 Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance 00:01:31
34 Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) 00:04:42
35 Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus) 00:01:13
36 Act III Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido) 00:01:07
37 Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido) 00:03:59
38 Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus) 00:04:30
39 St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich, mein Gott- 00:08:47
40 Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle… Ombra mai fu, "Largo"- 00:04:34
41 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth- 00:05:02