Purcell: Dido and Aeneas 

When I was about 5, I found a CD on a shelf in our house. I put it in the CD player and saw it had 31 tracks. This fascinated me, because it was higher than any other CD. I then begged and pleaded to go to the CD shop (the last one in town, which closed 2004) to find the CD with the most tracks of all. After much searching, I found one that had 41 tracks. I bought it with my pocket money. It was a CD of this opera. Being 5 years old, I was very open-minded, and even though it was a 1600s opera, I instantly fell in love with it. The music. It was unlike anything I'd heard before. I listened to it again and again and again. In the car. In my bedroom. In my CD player that came on holiday with me. It was only an hour so didn't take long to listen to all of it. This CD was with me when I broke my arm age 6. It got me through that whole ordeal. It was my favourite. I'd listened to it so many times I could hum every single track. And throughout all of this... I never, NEVER realised these songs are in English. I literally ALWAYS thought they were in some foreign language.

Tracklist: 00:00:00 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: “Overture (Orchestra)” 00:02:34 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda/Chorus)” 00:03:49 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment (Dido)” 00:06:40 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “Grief increases by concealing(Belinda/Dido/Second Woman/Chorus)” 00:07:39 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido/Belinda/Second Woman)” 00:09:37 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda/Second Woman/Chorus)” 00:11:14 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “The Baske Dance (Orchestra)” 00:11:50 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “See, your royal guest appears (Belinda/Aeneas/Dido/Chorus)” 00:13:03 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “If not for mine, for Empire’s sake (Aeneas/Belinda/Chorus)” 00:15:52 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the First - Scene: The Palace - “The Triumphing Dance (Orchestra)” 00:17:09 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene One: The Cave - “Wayward sisters, you that fright(Sorceress/First Witch/Chorus)” 00:19:19 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene One: The Cave - “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate(Sorceress/Chorus/First and Second Witch)” 00:20:57 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene One: The Cave - “But ere we this perform (First and Second Witch/Chorus)” 00:22:37 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene One: The Cave - “Echo Dance of Furies (Orchestra)” 00:23:47 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Ritornelle (Orchestra)” 00:24:38 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda/Chorus)” 00:27:45 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)” 00:29:37 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Behold! upon my bending spear (Aeneas/Dido/Chorus)” 00:30:59 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command! (Spirit/Aeneas)” 00:33:14 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “Then since our charms have sped (Sorceress/Chorus)” 00:34:22 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Second - Scene Two: The Grove - “The Groves’ Dance (Orchestra)” 00:34:53 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene One: The Ships - “Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor/Chorus) 00:36:32 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene One: The Ships - “The Sailors’ Dance (Orchestra)” 00:37:23 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene One: The Ships - “See the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress/First and Second Witch)” 00:38:18 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene One: The Ships - “Our next motion (Sorceress/Chorus)” 00:39:47 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene One: The Ships - “A Dance (Orchestra)” 00:41:28 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene Two - “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain (Dido/Belinda/Aeneas/Chorus)” 00:45:44 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene Two - “Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth (Dido)” 00:50:01 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene Two - “With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)” 00:53:17 Henry Purcell: Dido & Aeneas: Act the Third - Scene Two - “Cupids’ Dance (Orchestra)”

Who want to listen to this and share a bottle of a fine 1981 bottle of wine with me?

I search for this Bc I have music class and I ended it up loving it :v

Played this opera when I was maybe 13 or 14... with my opera choir at the Orvieto music school in Italy: the libretto was in Italian and it sounded brilliant to me.We performed at the City Theater Mancinelli. What a great memory but I cannot find any video of any performance in Italian. Can you help? I can sing the entire Dido and Aeneas only in Italian ;) Kind of deserate Thanks

singing as Aeneas for a school production of this, wish me luck!

Currently playing this, and honestly I wish we did it in baroque tuning. It sounds so much nicer in my opinion.

" When I am laid in earth".....wonderful.

Definitely my favourite opera !!! I love it and always cry at the end...

lol I love baroque period music, it's sooooo extra

Dido and Aeneas is definitely one of my favorite operas as well as one of the most influential for the genre. Purcell was a real genius at his craft as a composer!

La delicatezza di questa esecuzione rende questo capolavoro di Purcell ancor più coinvolgente e, a tratti, commovente. Grazie a tutti.

I played Ah Belinda for accompaniment class. At first I hated the somewhat repetitive bass but later on I ended up loving it lol

I attempt from 17th C music to fly . . . . . . . . . . . But formality and ornaments are my fever, my pain.

E venido por el misterio de la serie el internado la laguna negra ritter wulf y la desaparición de Irene espí y su marido 🙄 estta canción la escucha wulf en la serie

Wow, this was my school play last year. Love that you uploaded it, all the nostalgia.

Incredible how some parts already sound like British pop music! I am French, and I am glad to say that Britt's humour and music are amazing( I also love the food!).

22:00....... aw sh****** how to ruin one of the most beautiful, short yet delightful opera sections ever....... here performed as if it was a mazurka...... why??????

I had no idea there was such music written to remember these people. I must admit, my heart sank a little when the singing started and it became christmas, but I will definitely save this to play at christmas. The medium of Homer has just introduced me to opera for the first time.. I feel a little naive, but grateful. Xx

Damn i would love to listen to this in real life.

I went looking for this really only because the same theme was used for Elizabeth and Darcy’s dance in the 1995 series and for Emma and Knightley’s dance in the 1996 movie ^^ I thought it was a pretty cool “coincidence” (knowing it probably wasn’t a coincidence)

I love this!! A recording I hadn’t heard before. I love the way the drama is married more with the instruments.

. 46:40 .

Toll! Dankeschön! 🌹💟👍👋💣🎼🔄

So amazing. I wish they’d produce it more regularly

Je viens de l'écouter au hasard dans la cathédrale de Mirepoix. Ma roadtrip à été retardé mais ça à voulu la peine. Fantastique

Bravo!! Standing ovation 👏

I think this is the most beautiful version of "When I am laid in earth".

Nagyon érdekes mitológiai történet a szerelemről és a férfi kötelességtudatának konfliktusáról. T.i. Latiumban várost kell alapítani, ezért el kell hagynia a szerelmes karthágói királynőt. / from Hungary - Magyarországról /

28:53 - 29:39 I LOVE this piece of music.

studied this for O level music in 1982 - brings back memories My music teacher tried to convert me from an Oboeist to a Cellist - to no avail

The original gangster of funeral doom

Just finishing Aeneid 4 in Latin class!!! Purcell's great opera.

So far so good! Exploring mind! Brilliant!

Sublime. Even the overture is sexy!

Just like a poem for my senses,..... Thanks! 👍👍👍❤️🎼🎼🎼❤️🎼❤️🎼❤️🎼❤️🎼❤️

Coming straight from finishing the second book of Virgil’s Aeneid. That’s worth taking a musical pause!

'Before Sunrise' brought me here. 😍😍😍

nothing like fine music...relax and enjoy...

Purcell has such sick major chords in his music.

😌 🎻 🍂 🖤

poor Dido.. sad

Stunning performance.

I prefer Kentucky Bourban

Superb. Many, many thanks for this. M X

Finally found the whole thing.

The Masque genre Of Opera, right?

I’m nearing the end of book four.

00:00+ 00:15:52. 00:27:45._28:53 45:45.

Gfgj

Killing Eve got me here

Thank you ❤

lovely !

What is a man?

Best Part: 39:10

mantap

Bellezza♥️

Holaaa 👋🏻👋🏻💋♥️👍🙋

Who's the librettist

my favorite opera!