Purcell: Dido and Aeneas – Jessye Norman, Thomas Allen, Marie McLaughlin & English Chamber Orchestra

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture

English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard & Henry Purcell

2:10

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"

Marie McLaughlin, English Chamber Orchestra Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Raymond Leppard

1:13

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"

Jessye Norman, Marie McLaughlin, English Chamber Orchestra Chorus & English Chamber Orchestra

5:42

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1: "Whence could so much virtue spring?...Fear no danger"

Jessye Norman, Marie McLaughlin, Elizabeth Gale & English Chamber Orchestra

3:33

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 1: "See, your Royal Guest...If not for mine...To the hills and the vales...The Triumphing Dance

Marie McLaughlin, Jessye Norman, Thomas Allen & English Chamber Orchestra Chorus

5:18

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: Prelude for the witches

English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard & Henry Purcell

1:02

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: "Wayward sisters...But ere we this perform"

Patricia Kern, Helen Walker, Della Jones & English Chamber Orchestra Chorus

4:59

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: "In our deep vaulted cell" - Echo Dance of the Furies

English Chamber Orchestra Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard & Henry Purcell

2:18

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"

Marie McLaughlin, English Chamber Orchestra Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Raymond Leppard

3:29

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: "Oft she visits...Behold, upon my bending spear"

Elizabeth Gale, Thomas Allen, Jessye Norman & Marie McLaughlin

3:26

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 2: "Stay, Prince...Jove's commands shall be obey'd"

Derek Lee Ragin, Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra & Raymond Leppard

3:18

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"

Patrick Power, English Chamber Orchestra Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra & Raymond Leppard

1:42

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3: The sailor's Dance..."See the flags...Destruction'sour delight" - The Witches' Dance

Patricia Kern, Helen Walker, Della Jones & English Chamber Orchestra Chorus

4:23

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3: "Your counsel all is urged in vain...But death, alas"

Jessye Norman, Marie McLaughlin, Thomas Allen & English Chamber Orchestra Chorus

5:35

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"

Jessye Norman, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard & Henry Purcell

5:23

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3: "With drooping wings"

English Chamber Orchestra Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard & Henry Purcell

4:46