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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad (Dido), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Belinda), Thomas Hemsley (Aeneas), Arda Mandikian (Sorceress), Sheila Rex (First Witch), Anna Pollak (Second Witch), David Lloyd (Sailor)

The Mermaid Singers & Orchestra, Geraint Jones

EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century is exactly what it says: these classic interpretations warrant a place in everybody’s collection. — The Times
  • Release Date: 11th Feb 2008
  • Catalogue No: 5096902
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Great Recordings of the Century
  • Length: 63 minutes

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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$68.00
  • David Lloyd (vocals), Mermaid Orchestra (lead vocals), Thomas Hemsley (bass-baritone), Mermaid Singers (lead vocals), Arda Mandikian (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Eilidh McNab (soprano), Anna Pollak (mezzo-soprano), Sheila Rex (soprano), Arda Mandikan (mezzo-soprano)
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Warwick Braithwaite, Geraint Jones
  • Recorded: 1952-03-15
  • Recording Venue: 30 November, 1-2 December 1951 & 15, 27-28 March 1952, No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster): Overture (Orchestra)

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Shake the clod from off your brow (Belinda)

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Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)

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Grief increases by concealing (Belinda)

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Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido)

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Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda)

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See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda)

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Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)

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If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)

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Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)

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To the hills and the vales (Chorus)

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The Triumphing Dance (Orchestra)

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Prelude for the Witches (Orchestra)

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Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress)

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Harms our delight and mischief all our skill (Chorus)

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The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)

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Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (Two Witches)

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But, ere we this perform (Two Witches)

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In our deep vaulted cell (Echo Chorus)

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Echo Dance of the Furies (Orchestra)

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Ritornelle (Orchestra)

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Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda)

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Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)

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Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas)

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Haste, haste to town (Belinda)

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Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit)

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Then since our charms have sped (Chorus)

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Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1, Prelude: Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing (First Sailor)

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The Sailors' Dance (Orchestra)

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See, see the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress)

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Our next motion must be to storm her lover (Sorceress)

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Destruction's our delight (Chorus)

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The Witches' Dance (Orchestra)

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Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido)

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Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)

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Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido)

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When I am laid in earth (Dido)

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With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)

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Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me

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When I am laid in earth

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