Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas [United Kingdom]
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-12-12
Music Label: Decca Classics
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- "Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow"
- "Ah! Belinda. I Am Prest With Torment"
- "When Monarchs Unite"
- "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?"
- "Fear No Danger"
- "See, See, Your Royal Guest Appears"
- "Cupid Only Throws The Dart"
- "If Not For Mine"
- "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love"
- A Dance Gittars Chacony
- "To The Hills And The Vales"
- The Triumphing Dance
- Prelude For The Witches - "Wayward Sisters"
- "Harm's Our Delight"
- "The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate"
- "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell"
- Echo Dance Of The Furies
- Ritornelle - "Thanks To These Lonesome Vales"
- Glitter Ground - A Dance
- "Oft She Visits" - Ritornelle
- "Behold Upon My Bending Spear"
- "Haste, Haste To Town"
- "Stay, Prince, Stay"
- Ritornelle
- Prelude - "Come Away, Fellow Sailors"
- The Sailors' Dance
- "See The Flags And Streamers Curling"
- "Destruction's Our Delight"
- The Witches' Dance
- "Your Councel All Is Urg'd In Vain"
- "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire"
- "Thy Hand Belinda - When I Am Laid In Earth"
- "With Drooping Wings"
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Free Music Review: Too much thunder and ligthning
Hit: 4 Stars
This is certainly a good rendition of Purcell's chamber opera, well sung and performed, although I find the sound effects of thunder and lightning overdone and partly disturbing, especially since they are not in accordance with the otherwise "authentic practice" of this recording. (I am sure there was no prefabricated thunder and lightning at hand in Purcell's time, was it?) Still, there are more interesting versions of "Dido and Aeneas" available. If you are getting your first CD with this opera, try out the legendary 1961 recording with the English Chamber Orchestra, featuring Janet Baker as Dido. It's full of drama, and the sound engineering is excellent. If you prefer a version on period instruments, take a look at William Christie's 1994 recording with Les Arts Florissants. The playing is more transparent than on the Hogwood CD and the sound altogether more brilliant.
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