Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, opera in a prologue and three acts | Concentus Musicus Wien

__ Introduction: 00:00 - Locke: The tempest - Orchestral suite Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, opera in a prologue and three acts Act I: 00:11:52 - Overture 00:14:14 - Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus) 00:15:19 - Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment (Dido) 00:18:44 - Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido) 00:19:17 - When monarchs unite how happy their state (Chorus) 00:19:28 - Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda) 00:21:25 - Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus) 00:22:50 - See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) 00:23:40 - Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus) 00:24:11 - If not for mine, for Empire’s sake (Aeneas) 00:24:37 - Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda) 00:25:27 - To the hills and the vales (Chorus) 00:26:42 - The Triumphing Dance Act II: 00:27:58 - Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch) 00:29:56 - Harm’s our delight (Chorus) 00:30:11 - The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress) 00:30:46 - Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha! (Chorus) 00:30:56 - Ruin’d ere the set of sun? (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress) 00:32:03 - Ha Ha Ha, Ha Ha Ha! (Chorus) 00:32:11 - But, ere we This perform (1st and 2nd Witches) 00:33:28 - In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus) 00:34:41 - Echo Dance of Furies 00:35:42 - Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus) 00:39:25 - Oft she visits This lone mountain (2nd Woman) 00:40:58 - Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido) 00:41:37 - Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus) 00:42:24 - Stay, Prince! And hear great Jove’s command (Spirit, Aeneas) Act III: 00:45:00 - Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (1st Sailor, Chorus) 00:46:35 - The Sailor’s Dance 00:47:21 - See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches) 00:48:52 - Destruction’s our delight (Chorus) 00:49:25 - The Witches’ Dance 00:51:07 - Your counsel all Is urg’d in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) 00:55:43 - Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus) 00:56:31 - Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido) 00:57:40 - When I am laid in earth (Dido) 01:01:10 - With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus) Wallis Giunta | Dido Michael Schade | Aeneas Johanna Wallroth | Belinda Olivia Vermeulen | Sorceress Mokomo Nakajimas | 1st Witch, Spirit Lucila Varsic | 2nd Witch, 2nd Woman Christopher Willoughby | Sailor Concentus Musicus Wien Conducted by Stefan Gottfried __ Oedipus Coloneus, 2022