Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

1. Overture
2. Act 1, "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda)
3. Act 1, "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Chorus)
4. Act 1, "Ah! Belinda, I Am Pressed with Torment" (Dido)
5. Act 1, "Grief Increases by Concealing" (Belinda, Dido)
6. Act 1, "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" (Chorus)
7. Act 1, "Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring" (Dido, Belinda)
8. Act 1, "Fear No Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Attendant, Chorus)
9. Act 1, "See, See Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
10. Act 1, "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" (Chorus)
11. Act 1, "If Not for Mine, for Empire’s Sake" - "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" (Aeneas, Belinda)
12. Act 1, "To the Hills and the Vales" (Chorus)
13. Act 1, The Triumphing Dance
14. Act 2, Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters" - "Harm's Our Delight" - (Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus)
15. Act 2, "The Queen of Carthage" - "Ho Ho Ho" (Sorceress, Chorus)
16. Act 2, "Ruin’d Ere the Set of Sun" - "Ho Ho Ho" (First Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress, Chorus)
17. Act 2, "But, Ere We This Perform" (First Witch, Second Witch)
18. Act 2, "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" (Chorus)
19. Act 2, Echo Dance of the Furies
20. Act 2, Ritornelle
21. Act 2, "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus)
22. Act 2, "Oft She Visits This Loved Mountain" (Attendant)
23. Act 2, "Behold, Upon My Bended Spear" (Aeneas, Dido)
24. Act 2, "Haste, Haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus)
25. Act 2, "Stay, Prince!" (Spirit, Aeneas)
26. Act 3, "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" (Sailor, Chorus)
27. Act 3, The Sailors' Dance
28. Act 3, "See, See, the Flags and Streamers Curling" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch)
29. Act 3, "Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm" (Sorceress)
30. Act 3, "Destruction’s Our Delight" (Chorus)
31. Act 3, The Witches’ Dance
32. Act 3, "Your Counsel, All Is Urg’d in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
33. Act 3, "But Death, Alas! I Cannot Shun" (Dido)
34. Act 3, "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus)
35. Act 3, "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido)
36. Act 3, Dido's Lament. "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Dido)
37. Act 3, "With Drooping Wings" (Chorus)

Internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano and Grammy Award-winner Joyce DiDonato stars as Dido in this recording captured at Essen Philharmonie, part of a European tour that included prestigious venues such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Teatro Real de Madrid. The whole Dido & Aeneas team is a terrific ensemble featuring tenor Michael Spyres (Aeneas), soprano Fatma Said (Belinda), Beth Taylor (Sorceress),... and Il Pomo d’Oro, under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev.