Purcell: Dido & Aeneas and Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), George Mosley (bass), Michael Chance (alto), Pauline Tinsley (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), David Miller (guitar), Teresa Shaw (mezzo), Donna Deam (soprano), Shauna Beesley (soprano), Jonathan Peter Kenny (alto)
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Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328
- Michael Chance (alto), Pauline Tinsley (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano), George Mosley (bass (vocal)), Nicola Jenkin (soprano)
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Welcome to all pleasures
Here the Deities approve
While joys celestial
Beauty thou scene of love
Excerpt,
- English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Overture
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1
- Ruth Holton (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), George Mosley (bass (vocal))
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
"Shake the cloud from off your brow"
"Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
"Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
"See, your Royal Guest appears" - "If not for mine"
Corbetta: Ciaccona
- David Miller (guitar)
- English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
"To the hills and the vales" - The Triumphing Dance
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2
- Ruth Holton (soprano), Teresa Shaw (mezzo-soprano), Donna Deam (soprano), Shauna Beesley (soprano)
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters"
"In our deep vaulted cell" - Echo Dance of the Furies
Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
Sanz: Folias
- David Miller (guitar)
- English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2
- Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Jonathan Peter Kenny (alto), George Mosley (bass (vocal)), Ruth Holton (soprano)
- English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
"Oft she visits"
"Behold, upon my bending spear"
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3
- Pauline Tinsley (soprano), Teresa Shaw (mezzo-soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Donna Deam (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano), Shauna Beesley (soprano), George Mosley (bass (vocal))
- Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1990-07
- Recording Venue: St. George's Hall, Bristol
Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" - Sailor's Dance
"See the flags" - Destruction's our delight - The Wit- ches' Dance
"Your counsel all is urged in vain"
"But death, alas!"
"Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
"With drooping wings"