Dido and Aeneas / Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day

Release by Henry Purcell; Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Simon Woolf, Paul Esswood, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, John Shirley‐Quirk, Sir Charles Mackerras

Track list

CD 1: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626

=> 1 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture (2:38)
=> 2 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (1:13)
=> 3 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Ah! Belinda" / "Grief increases" / "When monarchs unite" (5:25)
=> 4 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger" (3:50)
=> 5 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "See, your royal guest appears" / "Cupid only throws…" (1:28)
=> 6 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "If not for mine, for empire's sake" … "To the hills and the vales" (3:04)
=> 7 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. The Triumphing Dance (1:02)
=> 8 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Prelude for…" / "Harms our…" / "The Queen" / "Ho, ho, ho" (2:38)
=> 9 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" … "But ere we this perform" (2:43)
=> 10 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "In our deep vaulted cell" (1:40)
=> 11 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. Echo Dance of Furies (1:14)
=> 12 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales" - Gitter Ground a Dance (3:23)
=> 13 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Oft she visits" (2:45)
=> 14 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Behold, upon my bending spear" / "Haste, haste to town" (1:21)
=> 15 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Stay, Prince" (3:01)
=> 16 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Then since our charms have sped" - A Dance - The Groves Dance (1:47)
=> 17 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" (1:36)
=> 18 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. The Sailors' Dance - "See the flags and streamers curling" (1:53)
=> 19 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Our next motion" - "Destruction's our delight" (1:20)
=> 20 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. The Witches' Dance (1:23)
=> 21 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire" (5:21)
=> 22 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Thy hand, Belinda" … "When I am laid in earth" (5:47)
=> 23 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "With drooping wings…" - Cupids’ Dance (6:01)

CD 2: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

=> 1 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Symphony (11:48)
=> 2 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia! (0:28)
=> 3 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia! (3:26)
=> 4 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hark, hark, each tree its silence breaks (4:54)
=> 5 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Tis Nature's voice (3:43)
=> 6 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Soul of the world (2:56)
=> 7 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Thou tun'st this world below, the spheres above (3:37)
=> 8 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: With that sublime celestial lay (2:51)
=> 9 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Wondrous machine! (3:21)
=> 10 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: The airy violin (1:37)
=> 11 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar (5:38)
=> 12 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: The fife, and all the harmony of war (3:05)
=> 13 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Let these amongst themselves contest (3:15)
=> 14 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia! (2:08)
=> 15 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: With rapture of delight (0:56)
=> 16 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia! (1:18)

Labels

=> Archiv Produktion

00289 477 5350

Release events

2005-02-01 Germany

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