REM GENRE Classical
REM DATE 1959
REM DISCID 5C11F807
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.3"
PERFORMER "Dido & Aeneas: Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, George Malcom (harpsichord continuo), Benjamin Britten (conductor) / Claire Watson (Dido, Queen of Carthage, also known as Elisa -soprano-), Peter Pears (Aeneas, a Trojan prince -tenor-), Jeannette Sinclair (Belinda, a lady in Waiting, sister of Dido -soporano-), Arda Mandikian (Sorceress -soprano-), Patricia Clark (Second Woman -soprano-), Jean Allister (Witch I -soprano-), Rosemary Philips (Witch II -contralto-), John Hahessy [John Elwes] (Spirit -boy soprano / treble-), Michael Ronayne (First Sailor -boy soprano / treble-) ; When night her purple veil had softly spread: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Members of the Alberni String Qtring Quartet, Bejamin Britten (piano)"
TITLE "Britten the performer. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell (1659-1695)"
FILE "Henry Purcell - Dido & Aeneas - Benjamin Britten.flac" WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
TITLE "DIDO & AENEAS, Opera in three actes. Text by Nahum Tate. First performance: July 1688, London. Edited by Benjamin Britten and Imogene Holst: [Overture]"
PERFORMER "English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
TITLE "FIRST ACT. Scene I: the palace. [N. 1 Scena and Chorus] “Shake the cloud from off your blow” (Belinda, Chorus, Dido, Second woman, Aeneas) ; “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus) ; [N. 2 – Song] “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” (Dido) ; Ritornelle ; [N. 3 Recitative] “Grief increasing by concealing” (Belinda, Dido, Second woman) ; [N. 4 Chorus] “When monarchs unite how happy their state” (Chorus) ; [N. 5 Recitative] “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Dido, Belinda) ; [N. 6 Duet and Chorus] “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second woman, Chorus) / Scene II: the baske. [N. 7 Recitative] “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) ; [N. 8 Chorus] “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus) ; [N. 9 Recitative] “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” (Aeneas) ; [N. 10 Air] “Pursue thy conquest, love” (Belinda) ; [N. 11 Chorus] “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus) ; [N. 12 The triumphing dance]"
PERFORMER "Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Jeannette Sinclair, Claire Watson, Patricia Clark, Peter Pears"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 02:24:72
TRACK 03 AUDIO
TITLE "FIRST ACT. Scene II: the cave. Prelude for the witches. [N. 13 Prelude for the witches] “Wayward sisters, you that fright” (Sorceress, Witch II) ; [N. 14 Witches chorus] “Harm’s our delight and mischief all our skill” (Witches chorus) ; [N. 15 Recitative] “The Queen of Carthage whom we hate” (Sorceress) ; [N. 16 Chorus] “Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!” (Chorus) ; [N. 17 Recitative] “Ruin’d e’re the set of sun?” (Two witches, Sorceress) ; [N. 18 Chorus] “Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho!” (Chorus) ; [N. 19 Duet] “But e’re we, we this perform” (Two witches) ; [N. 20 Chorus] Echo Chorus: “In our deep vaulted cell the charm we’ll prepare” (Chorus) ; [N. 21 Echo dance of furies] Echo dance [Enchantresses and Furies]"
PERFORMER "Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Arda Mandikian, Rosemary Philips"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 17:23:60
TRACK 04 AUDIO
TITLE "SECOND ACT. Scene: the grove. [N. 22 Ritornelle] ; [N. 23 Song and Chorus] “Thanks to these lovesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus) ; [N. 24 Song] “Oft she visits this loved mountain” (Second woman) ; Ritornelle ; [N. 25 Recitative] “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido) ; [N. 26 Song and Chorus] “Haste, haste to town, this open field” (Belinda, Chorus) ; [N. 27 Recitative] “Stay, prince and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)"
PERFORMER "Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Jeannette Sinclair, Patricia Clark, Peter Pears, Claire Watson, John Hahessy"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 25:56:54
TRACK 05 AUDIO
TITLE "SECOND ACT. Supplement. “Then since our charmes have sped” (Sorceress, Two witches) ; “A dance that shall make the spheres to wonder” (Witches chorus) ; The groves dance"
PERFORMER "Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Arda Mandikian, Jean Allister, Rosemary Philips"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 37:08:47
TRACK 06 AUDIO
TITLE "THIRD ACT. Scene: the ships. [N. 28 Prelude] “Come away, fellow sailors” (First sailor, Chorus) ; [N. 29 The sailors dance] The sailors’ dance ; [N. 30 Recitative] “See the flags and streamers curling” ; “Our next motion must be to storme her lover on the ocean!” (Sorceress) ; [N. 31 Chorus] “Destruction our delight, delight our greatest sorrow!” (Chorus) ; [N. 32 The witches dance] The witches dance ; [N. 33 Recitative] “Your counsel all is urged in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) ; [N. 34 Recitative] “But death, alas! I cannot shun” (Dido) ; [N. 35 Chorus] “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus) ; [N. 36 Recitative] “Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me” (Dido) ; [N. 37 Song] “When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create” (Dido) ; [N. 38 Chorus] “With drooping wings you Cupids come” (Chorus)"
PERFORMER "Purcell Singers, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten & Michael Ronayne, Arda Mandikian, Claire Watson, Patricia Clark, Peter Pears"
REM COMPOSER "Henry Purcell"
INDEX 01 40:36:50
TRACK 07 AUDIO
TITLE "“When night her purple veil had softly spread”, secular canatata for baritone with two violins and continuo, realized by Benjamin Britten"
PERFORMER "Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Members of the Alberni String Qtring Quartet, Bejamin Britten"
REM COMPOSER "attrib. Henry Purcell"
INDEX 00 61:18:50
INDEX 01 61:27:37
