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Dido and Aeneas / Act 1 - Henry Purcell
Purcell: - Overture
English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:17
Purcell: - "Shake the clouds from off your brow"
Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
01:02
Purcell: - "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
04:40
Purcell: - "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:00
Purcell: - "Fear no danger"
Patricia Clarke, Eileen Poulter, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
01:32
Purcell: - "See, your Royal Guest appears"
Patricia Clarke, Raimund Herincx, Dame Janet Baker, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
04:46
Dido and Aeneas / Act 2 - Henry Purcell
Purcell: - "Wayward sisters"
Monica Sinclair, Rhianon James, Catherine Wilson, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
03:10
Purcell: - "Ruin'd ere the set of sun!"
Rhianon James, Catherine Wilson, Monica Sinclair, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
04:55
Purcell: - Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
03:33
Purcell: - "Oft she visits"
Eileen Poulter, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:22
Purcell: - "Behold, upon my bending spear"
Raimund Herincx, Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
01:21
Purcell: - "Stay, Prince" - "Jove's commands shall be obey'd"
Dorothy Dorow, Raimund Herincx, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:40
Dido and Aeneas / Act 3 - Henry Purcell
Purcell: - Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" - Sailors' dance
John Mitchinson, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:30
Purcell: - "See the flags"-"Destruction's our delight-The Witches'
03:24
Purcell: - "Your counsel all is urged in vain"
Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, Raimund Herincx, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
03:26
Purcell: - "But Death alas!".."When I am laid in earth"
Dame Janet Baker, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
06:27
Purcell: - "With drooping wings"
The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
02:42
This version of Purcell’s iconic opera recorded in 1961 by Decca’s star producer Ray Minshull is a true musical artefact. It seems to have come from the depths of time with its Pleyel harpsichord, heavy strings, slow tempo and slack gestures. Its main asset is its ability to display the immense Janet Baker as a tearful and particularly moving Dido. Anthony Lewis’ direction also provides us with a clearer idea of how baroque interpretations have evolved in the time between this distant period and today. These first efforts paved the way for Raymond Leppard’s exhilarating display in his interpretation of Cavalli’s Monteverdi at Glyndebourne. The door was then opened to a new generation of musicologist/musicians and organologists who would strive to rediscover interpretive styles through examining an era’s traits and playing methods on old or recreated instruments. This vast historically-informed interpretive movement has since proved its worth and invigorated a repertoire that goes much further than just the baroque period. © François Hudry/Qobuz
by English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Patricia Clarke, Eileen Poulter, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Patricia Clarke, Raimund Herincx, Dame Janet Baker, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Monica Sinclair, Rhianon James, Catherine Wilson, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Rhianon James, Catherine Wilson, Monica Sinclair, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Eileen Poulter, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Raimund Herincx, Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Dorothy Dorow, Raimund Herincx, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by John Mitchinson, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clarke, Raimund Herincx, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by Dame Janet Baker, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
by The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Thurston Dart, Anthony Lewis
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