
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
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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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