Purcell - Dido and Aeneas / When I am laid in earth (Victoria De Los Ángeles - r.r.: )

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Dido and Aeneas. *Picture error: Teresa Berganza* 🎧 *Find this recording in our Spotify playlist* : *Click to activate the English subtitles for the presentation* (00:00-05:30) 00:00 Overture Act 1 02:41 Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow 03:25 Banish Sorrow, Banish Care 04:02 Ah, Belinda, I Am Prest With Torment 08:05 Grief Increases By Concealing 08:49 When Monarchs Unite 09:05 Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring 11:17 Fear Danger To Ensue 13:03 See, Your Royal Guest Appears 13:56 Cupid Only Throws The Dart 14:39 If Not For Mine, For Empire’s Sake 15:03 Pursue Thy Conquest, Love 15:59 To The Hills & The Vales 17:24 The Triumphing Dance 18:39 Wayward Sisters 21:53 Harm’s Our Delight & Mischief All Our Skill 22:10 The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate 22:57 Ruin’d Ere The Set Of Sun 24:34 But, Ere We This Perform 25:48 In Our Deep Vaulted Cell 27:29 Echo Dance Of Furies Act 2 28:55 Ritornelle 30:12 Thanks To These Lonesome Vales 31:49 Oft She Visits This Lov’d Mountain 34:31 Behold, Upon My Bending Spear 35:05 Haste, Haste To Town 35:56 Stay, Prince, & Hear Great Jove’s Command 38:45 Come Away, Fellow Sailors 40:29 Sailors’ Dance 41:23 See The Flags & Streamers Curling 42:24 Our Next Motion Must Be To Storm Her Lover 43:04 Destruction’s Our Delight 43:50 Witches’ Dance 45:08 Your Counsel All Is Urg’d In Vain 49:17 Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire 50:42 Thy Hand, Belinda 51:43 When I Am Laid In Earth 55:21 With Drooping Wings Dido, Queen of Carthage : Victoria De Los Ángeles Aeneas : Peter Glossop Belinda : Heather Harper Sorceress : Patricia Johnson Second Woman : Elizabeth Robson First Witch : Clare Walmesley Second Witch & Spirit : Sybil Michelow Sailor : Robert Tear Ambrosian Singers Chorus Master : John McCarthy Harpsichord : Raymond Leppard English Chamber Orchestra Conductor : Sir John Barbirolli Recorded in 1965, at London New mastering in 2021 by AB for CM//RR 🔊Find CMRR’s recordings on Spotify : 🔊Download CMRR’s recordings in High fidelity audio : The story takes place in Carthage in the palace of Queen Dido. She confesses her love for the Trojan prince Aeneas to her follower Belinda. A dark group of witches accompanied by a sorceress seek to destroy the happiness of the royal couple from their cave. They call upon a spirit who, in the guise of Mercury, urges the prince to leave for Italy. Aeneas submits, against his will, to Jupiter’s order and takes the decision to leave that very evening on his ship; which delights the witches who plan to sink Aeneas’ ship. At the announcement of his departure, Aeneas provokes the anger of Dido who does not understand why he must abandon her. He decides to stay, but Didon forbids him and drives him away. Once Aeneas has left, she gives herself up to death in the poignant lamento When I am laid in earth. A chamber opera masterfully blending comedy and tragedy. Henry Purcell PLAYLIST (reference recordings) :