Purcell - Dido and Aeneas / When I am laid in earth (Victoria De Los Ángeles - r.r.: S.J.Barbirolli)

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneas. Picture error: Teresa Berganza
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00:00 Overture
Act 1
02:41 Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow
03:25 Banish Sorrow, Banish Care
04:02 Ah, Belinda, I Am Prest With Torment
08:05 Grief Increases By Concealing
08:49 When Monarchs Unite
09:05 Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring
11:17 Fear Danger To Ensue
13:03 See, Your Royal Guest Appears
13:56 Cupid Only Throws The Dart
14:39 If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake
15:03 Pursue Thy Conquest, Love
15:59 To The Hills & The Vales
17:24 The Triumphing Dance
18:39 Wayward Sisters
21:53 Harm's Our Delight & Mischief All Our Skill
22:10 The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate
22:57 Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun
24:34 But, Ere We This Perform
25:48 In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
27:29 Echo Dance Of Furies

Act 2
28:55 Ritornelle
30:12 Thanks To These Lonesome Vales
31:49 Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain
34:31 Behold, Upon My Bending Spear
35:05 Haste, Haste To Town
35:56 Stay, Prince, & Hear Great Jove's Command
38:45 Come Away, Fellow Sailors
40:29 Sailors' Dance
41:23 See The Flags & Streamers Curling
42:24 Our Next Motion Must Be To Storm Her Lover
43:04 Destruction's Our Delight
43:50 Witches' Dance
45:08 Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain
49:17 Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
50:42 Thy Hand, Belinda
51:43 When I Am Laid In Earth
55:21 With Drooping Wings

Dido, Queen of Carthage : Victoria De Los Ángeles
Aeneas : Peter Glossop
Belinda : Heather Harper
Sorceress : Patricia Johnson
Second Woman : Elizabeth Robson
First Witch : Clare Walmesley
Second Witch & Spirit : Sybil Michelow
Sailor : Robert Tear

Ambrosian Singers
Chorus Master : John McCarthy
Harpsichord : Raymond Leppard
English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor : Sir John Barbirolli
Recorded in 1965, at London
New mastering in 2021 by AB for CM//RR
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The story takes place in Carthage in the palace of Queen Dido. She confesses her love for the Trojan prince Aeneas to her follower Belinda. A dark group of witches accompanied by a sorceress seek to destroy the happiness of the royal couple from their cave. They call upon a spirit who, in the guise of Mercury, urges the prince to leave for Italy. Aeneas submits, against his will, to Jupiter's order and takes the decision to leave that very evening on his ship; which delights the witches who plan to sink Aeneas' ship. At the announcement of his departure, Aeneas provokes the anger of Dido who does not understand why he must abandon her. He decides to stay, but Didon forbids him and drives him away. Once Aeneas has left, she gives herself up to death in the poignant lamento When I am laid in earth. A chamber opera masterfully blending comedy and tragedy.

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