tracks

Overture
Act 1
Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus)
Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment (Dido)
Grief Increases By Concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus)
Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda, 2nd Woman, Chorus)
See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido, Chorus)
Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus)
If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake (Aeneas, Belinda)
Guitar Chaconne
To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus)
The Triumphing Dance
Act II
Wayward Sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch, Witches)
The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate (Sorceress, Chorus)
Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun? (Witches, Sorceress, Chorus)
In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus)
Echo Dance Of Furies
Ritornelle
Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Guitar Passacaille
Guitar Dance: Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (2nd Woman)
Behold, Upon My Bended Spear (Aeneas, Dido) - Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda, Chorus)
Stay, Prince! And Hear Great Jove's Command (Spirit, Aeneas)
Groves' Dance: Then Since Our Charms Have Sped (Chorus)
Act III
Come Away, Fellow Sailors (1st Sailor, Chorus)
See, The Flags And Streamers Curling (Sorceress, 1st And 2nd Witches)
Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
The Witches' Dance
Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus)
Thy Hand, Belinda; Darkness Shades Me (Dido)
With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come (Chorus)

notes

Recorded June 23-25, 2008.

credits

A&R – Mary McCarthy (2)
Alto Vocals [Choir Of The Enlightenment] – Ben Turner, David Clegg, Tim Travers Brown, Tom Williams (4)
Baritone Vocals – Gerald Finley
Bass Vocals [Choir Of The Enlightenment] – Giles Davies, Marcus Farnsworth, Richard Savage
Booklet Editor – Elizabeth Long
Choir – Choir Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Countertenor Vocals – William Purefoy
Cover – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
Design, Typography – Cassidy Rayne Creative
Double Bass [Bass Violin, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment] – Katherine Sharman, Richard Tunnicliffe
Engineer – Ralph Couzens
Engineer [Assistant] – Jonathan Cooper
Harpsichord [Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment] – Steven Devine
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Patricia Bardon, Sarah Connolly
Music Director – Elizabeth Kenny, Steven Devine
Orchestra – Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment
Producer – Rachel Smith (4)
Soprano Vocals – Carys Lane, Lucy Crowe, Rebecca Outram, Sarah Tynan
Soprano Vocals [Choir Of The Enlightenment] – Carys Lane, Elizabeth Weisberg, Rebecca Outram, Susan Gilmour Bailey
Tenor Vocals – John Mark Ainsley
Tenor Vocals [Choir Of The Enlightenment] – Kevin Kyle, Nicholas Mulroy, Simon Davies (3)
Theorbo, Guitar [Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment] – David Miller (7), Elizabeth Kenny, Paula Chateauneuf
Viola [Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment] – Annette Isserlis, Jan Schlapp, Martin Kelly (3)
Violin [Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment] – Alison Bury, Claire Holden, Claire Sansom, Matthew Truscott, Susan Carpenter-Jacobs,
Violin, Leader – Margaret Faultless

companies

Copyright (c) – Chandos Records Ltd
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chandos Records Ltd
Recorded At – Church Of St. Silas The Martyr, Kentish Town

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