Dido and Aeneas

Tracklist

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• 1 Dido and Aeneas: Overture 2:13
• 2 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) 0:36
• 3 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus) 0:31
• 4 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment” (Dido) 4:06
• 5 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido) 0:34
• 6 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “When monarchs unite, how happy their state” (Chorus) 0:15
• 7 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Belinda, Dido) 1:41
• 8 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) 2:14
• 9 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “See, your royal guest appears” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido) 0:47
• 10 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus) 0:35
• 11 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” (Aeneas, Belinda) 1:29
• 12 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus) 1:03
• 13 Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. The Triumphing Dance 1:26
• 14 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Wayward sisters, you that fright” (Sorceress, First Witch) / “Harm’s our delight” (Chorus) 2:11
• 15 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate” (Sorceress) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus) 0:39
• 16 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Ruined ere the set of sun?” (Sorceress, Two Witches) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus) 1:09
• 17 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches) 1:12
• 18 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus in the Manner of an Echo) 1:28
• 19 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. Echo Dance of Furies 1:17
• 20 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. Ritornelle 0:43
• 21 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus) 3:15
• 22 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman) 2:18
• 23 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido) 0:29
• 24 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus) 0:44
• 25 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Aeneas, Spirit) 2:18
• 26 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Come away, fellow sailors” (A Sailor, Chorus) 1:35
• 27 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Sailor’s Dance 0:50
• 28 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “See the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, First and Second Witch) 1:02
• 29 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Our next motion” (Sorceress) 0:42
• 30 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus) 0:32
• 31 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Witches’ Dance 1:22
• 32 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Your counsel all is urged in vain” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido) 3:27
• 33 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus) 0:50
• 34 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido) 0:57
• 35 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “When I am laid in earth” (Dido) 3:50
• 36 Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “With drooping wings” (Chorus) 2:16

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