Title & Reference

HENRY PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas
GCD 921601

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Performer

LE CONCERT SPIRITUEL
Directed by Hervé Niquet

Soloists
Dido & Sorceress: Laura Pudwell
Aeneas: Peter Harvey
Belinda & First Witch: Salomé Haller
Second Woman & Second Witch: Marie-Louise Duthoit
The Sailor: Nicolas Maire
The Spirit: Matthew White

Production details

Recorded at Église Notre Dame du Liban, Paris, in May 2000

Engineered and edited by MANUEL MOHINO
Produced by DOMINIQUE DAIGREMONT & HERVÉ NIQUET
Executive producer: CARLOS CÉSTER

Total playing time 49:11

Design: CARLOS CÉSTER & TOM SKIPP
On the cover: Etching by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677). Reproduced by permission of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Booklet essay

Jean-Yves Patte (French)
Translations into English, German, Spanish

Bar code

8 424562 21601 3

HENRY PURCELL
DIDO AND AENEAS

1 Overture 1:51

ACT I
Scene the Palace

2 "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda)
3 "Ah! Belinda" (Dido)
4 "Whence could so much virtue spring"
5 "See, your royal guest appears" (Belinda)
6 "If not for mine" (Aeneas)
7 "To the hills and the vales" (Chorus)

ACT II
Scene the Cave

8 Prelude for the Witches. "Wayward sisters" (Sorceress)
9 "But ere we this perform" (Witches)
10 "In our deep-vaulted cell" (Chorus)

Scene the Grove

11 Ritornelle. "Thanks to these lonesome vales" (Belinda)
12 "Oft she visits" (Second Woman)
13 "Behold, upon my bending spear" (Aeneas)
14 "Stay, Prince" (Spirit)

ACT III
Scene the Ships

15 Prelude. "Come away, fellow sailors" (First Sailor)
16 "See the flags" (Sorceress)
17 The Witches' Dance

Scene the Palace

18 "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" (Dido)
19 "Great minds" (Chorus)
20 "Thy hand, Belinda" (Dido)
21 "With drooping wings" (Chorus)

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