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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (more info)
Performed by: Taverner Players Collegium Musicum 90 Age of Enlightenment Orchestra Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Scholars Baroque Ensemble Mermaid Orchestra
Composed by: Henry Purcell
Conducted by: Richard Hickox Jeanne Lamon Andrew Parrott Geraint Jones Warwick Braithwaite
Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Kym Amps, soprano
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Anna Crookes, soprano
Patricia Rozario, soprano
Francis Colpron, recorder
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
James Bowman, alto
William Purefoy, counter-tenor
Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano
David van Asch, bass
Rebecca Outram, soprano
Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Evans, soprano
Karl Daymond, baritone
Jamie MacDougall, tenor
Mary Plazas, soprano
Maria Ewing, soprano
Judith Nelson, soprano
Carys Lane, soprano
Sarah Tynan, soprano
Judith Rees, soprano
Jantina Noorman, mezzo-soprano
Steven Devine, organ
Meredith Hall, soprano
Eilidh McNab,
Arda Mandikian, soprano
Sheila Rex,
Thomas Hemsley,
David Lloyd, tenor
Anna Pollak,
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Patricia Bardon, mezzo-soprano
Gerald Finley, baritone
Emma Kirkby, soprano
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Shannon Mercer, soprano
Ann Monoyios, soprano
David Thomas, bass
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Russell Braun, baritone
Shari Saunders, soprano
Recording date: 29 May 1948


1.   Overture - 3:06
2.   Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus) - 1:09
3.   Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido) - 3:25
4.   Act I: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus) - 0:57
5.   Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda) - 2:11
6.   Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus) - 1:40
7.   Act I: See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) - 1:17
8.   Act I: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus) - 0:35
9.   Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas) - 0:24
10.   Act I: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda) - 0:48
11.   Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus) - 1:15
12.   Act I: The Triumphing Dance - 1:19
13.   Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches - 1:27
14.   Act II Scene 1: Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch) - 1:34
15.   Act II Scene 1: Harm's our delight (Chorus) - 0:18
16.   Act II Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress, Chorus) - 0:47
17.   Act II Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress, Chorus) - 1:29
18.   Act II Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (1st and 2nd Witches) - 1:14
19.   Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus) - 1:16
20.   Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies - 1:01
21.   Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle - 0:28
22.   Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus) - 1:43
23.   Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (2nd Woman) - 2:06
24.   Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido) - 0:36
25.   Act II Scene 2: Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus) - 0:46
26.   Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas) - 2:43
27.   Act II Scene 2: Then since our Charm's have sped (Chorus) - 1:09
28.   Act III Scene 1: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus) - 1:45
29.   Act III Scene 1: The Sailor's Dance - 0:43
30.   Act III Scene 1: See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches) - 0:56
31.   Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress) - 0:41
32.   Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus) - 0:35
33.   Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance - 1:31
34.   Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) - 4:41
35.   Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus) - 1:13
36.   Act III Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido) - 1:06
37.   Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido) - 3:58
38.   Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus) - 4:36
39.   Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth - 4:55


St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (more info)
Performed by: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn Philharmonia Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Stuttgart Bach Collegium Kleine Konzert, Das Mostly Mozart Orchestra
Composed by: Johann Sebastian Bach Neville Marriner
Conducted by: Adrian Boult Geza Oberfrank Helmuth Rilling Walter Susskind Gerard Schwarz Daniel Taylor Hermann Max
Olivier Brault, violin
Susie Napper, baroque cello
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Regent Poirier, organ
Christine Moran,
Pierre Cartier,
Scott Metcalfe,
Helene Plouffe, violin
Basil Lam, harpsichord
Arleen Auger, soprano
Ingeborg Danz, alto
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Ibolya Verebics, soprano
Christiane Oelze, soprano
Monika Frimmer, soprano


40.   St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich, mein Gott - 8:44


Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40 (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Vienna Radio Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra John Barbirolli Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Budapest Camerata
Composed by: Enrico Caruso George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Josef A. Pasternack Charles Mackerras John Barbirolli Brian Priestman Hartmut Haenchen Laszlo Kovacs Iona Brown Daniel Taylor David Parry Warwick Braithwaite Stephen Darlington
Ulf Samuelsson, organ
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Francis Lapitino, harp
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano
Per-Arne Wahlgren, baritone
Lorenzo Regazzo, bass
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
Dino Fedri,
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Jozsef Mukk, tenor
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
Catrin Finch, harp
Recording date: 20 April 1955


41.   Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle… Ombra mai fu, "Largo" - 4:34

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