Dido & Aeneas-Comp Opera

~ Henry Purcell (Composer), Anthony Lewis (Conductor), English Chamber Orchestra (Orchestra), Thurston Dart (Performer), Dame Janet Baker (Performer), et al.

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Performer: Thurston Dart, Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clark, Raimund Herincx, Monica Sinclair, et al.
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Anthony Lewis
Composer: Henry Purcell
Audio CD (Mar 17 2008)
SPARS Code: ADD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Universal Music Group
Run Time: 53 minutes
ASIN: B00004C8TE

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1. Dido and Aeneas: Overture

2. Dido and Aeneas: Act One: Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow

3. Dido and Aeneas: Act One: Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest With Torment

4. Dido and Aeneas: Act One: Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?

5. Dido and Aeneas: Act One: Fear No Danger To Ensue

6. Dido and Aeneas: Act One: See, Your Royal Guest Appears

7. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Prelude For The Witches - Wayward Sisters

8. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun?

9. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Ritornelle - thanks To these Lonesome Vales

10. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain

11. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear

12. Dido and Aeneas: Act Two: Stay, Prince, And Hear Great Jove's Command

13. Dido and Aeneas: Act Three: Prelude - Come Away, Fellow Sailors

14. Dido and Aeneas: Act Three: See The Flags And Streamers Curling

15. Dido and Aeneas: Act Three: Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain

16. Dido and Aeneas: Act Three: But Death, Alas! ... When I Am Laid In Earth

17. Dido and Aeneas: Act Three: With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come

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Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626
Composed by Henry Purcell
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
with Thurston Dart, Dame Janet Baker, Patricia Clark, Raimund Herincx, Monica Sinclair, Terence Weil
Conducted by Anthony Lewis

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5.0 out of 5 stars INFANDUM, REGINA, IUBES RENOVARE DOLOREM (Aeneid 2/3), Oct 2 2001

By	DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

I can't recommend this strongly enough to music-lovers who, like me, are not very well up in 17th century composers.

First, this opera has a good strong, clear libretto. The story moves fast, the characters and situations are strongly delineated and contrasted, the sense of developing tragedy is powerful and moving. Purcell's Dido has has the stature of Virgil's
--- regina graui iamdudum saucia cura ---
--- the queen long since wounded with a heavy care
a queen and a strong woman driven to suicide by a betrayed love, the part grandly realised by Baker. Herincx has the right idea of Aeneas too, big and 'heroic' despite needing only token prompting from the powers above to abandon Dido and anything she might have meant to him. Virgil's malevolent Juno is replaced by a stagy cast of witches and whatnot, and rightly so for greater theatricality. (I'm OK by staginess and exaggeration here.)

For those like myself whose idea of opera starts with Handel and gets going properly with Gluck, this piece is not easy listening to begin with.It has been an education to learn how the musical resources of the 17th century can be equal to a story as powerful as this. I do not comment on details of the performance as it is still unfamiliar ground to me, but I do not expect ever to find it anything except magnificent.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Dido Of All, Sep 9 2001

By	Erin Matthiessen "son of Doris" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In my not very humble opinion, no one has sung this role better than Dame Janet. For nobility of expression, intensity of feeling, tonal beauty and almost unendurable grief she is unmatched. If you are unaware of the artistry of Janet Baker, this is an excellent place to start your discovery of one of the greatest, and now - sadly - somewhat forgotten, interpretive artists of our time. You owe it to yourself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Nice!, Mar 10 2001