Henry Purcell – Véronique Gens, Sophie Marin-Degor, Claire Brua, Nathan Berg, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie – Dido & Æneas (CD, Album, Club) (Near Mint (NM or M-))

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

TWL-Box #66-L

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Notes:

28 page front insert includes complete lyrics.
Recording: 8-11/11/1994, Théâtre-Opéra de Massy (Essonne, France)
62-pages booklet with libretto
Total time: 51:54

. Dido & Æneas, Opera In Three Acts
1. Overture 1:56
. Act I
2. Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus) 1:03
3. Ah Belinda, I Am Press’d With Torment (Dido) 3:36
4. Grief Increases By Concealing (Belinda, Dido) / When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus) 0:45
5. Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda) 1:54
6. Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belinda, Chorus) 1:33
7. See Our Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Æneas) / Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus) 1:10
8. If Not For Mine, For Empire’s Sake (Æneas) / Pursue Thy Conquest, Love (Belinda) / To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus) 2:14
9. The Triumphing Dance 1:08
. Act II
. – Scene 1
10. Prelude For The Witches / Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress) / Harm’s Our Delight (Chorus) 2:15
11. 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
12. But Ere We This Perform (First And Second Witches) 1:10
13. In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus In The Manner Of An Echo) / Echo Dance Of Furies 2:23
. – Scene 2
14. Ritornelle / Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus) 3:35
15. Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman) 1:55
16. Behold Upon My Bending Spear (Æneas, Dido) / Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda, Chorus) 1:13
17. Stay Prince (Spirit, Æneas) 2:04
18. Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped (Chorus) / The Grove’s Dance 1:23
. Act III
. – Scene 1
19. Prelude / Come Away (Sailor, Chorus) / The Sailor’s Dance 2:20
20. See, See The Flags (Sorceress, First Witch) / Our Next Motion (Sorceress) 1:41
21. Destruction’s Our Delight (Chorus) 0:31
22. The Witches’ Dance 1:35
. – Scene 2
23. Your Councel All Is Urged In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Æneas) 3:35
24. Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus) / Thy Hand, Belinda (Dido) 2:02
25. When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido) 3:46
26. With Drooping Wings (Chorus) 2:54

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