tracks

Overture
Act One: The Palace
"Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow" - Belinda; "Banish Sorrow" - Chorus
"Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest With Torment" - Dido
"Grief Increases By Concealing" - Belinda, Dido / "When Monarchs Unite" - Chorus
"Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring" - Dido, Belinda
"Fear No Danger To Ensue" - Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus
"See, Your Royal Guest Appears" - Belinda, Aeneas, Dido / "Cupid Only Throws The Dart" - Chorus
"If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake" - Aeneas, Belinda
"To The Hills And The Vales" - Chorus / The Triumphing Dance
Act Two, Scene I: The Cave
Prelude For The Witches / "Wayward Sisters" - Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus
"Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun?" - Two Witches, Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus
"But Ere We This Perform" - Two Witches
"In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" - Chorus In The Manner Of An Echo / Echo Dance Of The Furies
Act Two, Scene II: The Grove
Ritornelle / "Thanks To These Lonesome Vales" - Belinda, Chorus
"Off She Visits This Lone Mountain" - Second Woman
"Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" - Aeneas, Dido / "Haste, Haste To Town" - Belinda, Chorus
"Stay. Prince, And Hear" - Spirit, Aeneas
Ritornelle
Act Three, Scene 1: The Ships
Prelude - "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" - Sailor, Chorus / The Sailors' Dance
"See The Flags And Streamers Curling" - Sorceress, Witches
"Our Next Motion" - Sorceress / "Destruction's Our Delight" - Chorus
The Witches' Dance
Act Three, Scene II: The Palace
"Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain" - Dido, Belinda, Aeneas
"But Death, Alas, I Cannot Shun" - Dido / "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" - Chorus
"Thy Hand Belinda" / "When I Am Laid In Earth" - Dido
"With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come" - Chorus
Music For Plays & Masques
Overture (From Abdelazer, The Moor's Revenge)
Rondeau (Abdelazer)
Air (Abdelazer)
Minuet (The Gordian Knot Unty'd)
Air (The Gordian Knot Unty'd)
Curtain Tune On A Ground (Timon Of Athens)
Rondeau (The Fairy Queen)
Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen)
Overture (The Fairy Queen)
Dance For The Fairies (The Fairy Queen)
Chaconne (The Fairy Queen)
Hornpipe On A Ground (The Married Beau)

notes

Recorded on 3-5 January 1996.
Performed on period instruments.
Includes 51-page booklet in English, French, and German which contains notes, synopsis, and the libretto.

credits

Art Direction, Cover [Design] – Anida Carrasquillo
Baritone Vocals [Aeneas, A Trojan Prince] – Russell Braun (tracks: 7, 8, 16, 17,23)
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Conductor, Booklet Editor – Martin Pearlman
Cover [Painting] – Kazuhiko Sano
Editor – Rosalind Ilett
Engineer [Recording] – Jack Renner
Executive-Producer – Robert Woods (2)
Libretto By – Nahum Tate
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Dido, Queen Of Carthage] – Nancy Maultsby (tracks: 3 to 5, 7, 16, 23 to 25)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Second Witch / Spirit] – Donna Ames (tracks: 11, 12, 17, 20)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Laura Tucker (tracks: 10, 20, 21)
Orchestra – Boston Baroque
Producer [Assistance] – Erica Brenner
Producer [Recording] – James Mallinson
Production Manager – Elaine Martone
Soprano Vocals [Belinda, Dido's Confidant] – Susannah Waters (tracks: 2, 4 to 8, 14, 16, 23)
Soprano Vocals [First Witch] – Margaret O'Keefe (tracks: 10 to 12, 20)
Soprano Vocals [Second Woman] – Sharon Baker (3) (tracks: 6, 15)
Technician [Assistance] – Thomas Knab
Tenor Vocals [Sailor] – Richard Clement (tracks: 19)
Text By [French Translation] – Patricia Dussaux
Text By [German Translation] – Gila Fox

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Telarc International Corporation
Copyright (c) – Telarc International Corporation
Recorded At – Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA
Glass Mastered At – DADC

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