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Summary:

AVIE continues to mine the rich catalog of recordings made by Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players with a sumptuous reissue of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. The performance is as fresh as when the recording was made in 1994, with baritone Ben Parry as the Trojan hero Aeneas, and soprano Emily Van Evera as the abandoned Queen of Carthage, delivering an interpretation of Dido’s Lament that is as dignified as it is sublime

Tracklist:

HENRY PURCELL (1659–1695)
Libretto by Nahum Tate (1652–1715)

Dido and Aeneas

1  Overture (2:14)

ACT I · Scene: The Palace
2  Shake the cloud from off your brow (1:11)
3  Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment (3:55)
4  Grief increases by concealing (0:44)
5  When monarchs unite, how happy their state (0:16)
6 Whence could so much virtue spring? (1:43)
7  Fear no danger to ensue (1:49)
8  Dance [Fear no danger to ensue] (0:55)
9  See, see, your royal guest appears (0:49)
10  Cupid only throws the dart (0:41)
11  If not for mine, for empire’s sake (0:21)
12  Pursue thy conquest, Love (0:52)
13  Dance: ‘Gittars Chacony’ (0:40)
14  To the hills and the vales (1:14)
15  The Triumphing Dance (1:19)

ACT II · Scene: The Cave
16  Prelude for the Witches 
Wayward sisters, you that fright (1:56)
17  Harm’s our delight (0:14)
18  The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (0:25)
19  Ho ho ho! (0:09)
20  Ruined ere the set of sun? (1:02)
21  Ho ho ho! (0:09)
22  But ere we this perform (1:14)
23  In our deep vaulted cell (1:07)
24  Echo Dance of Furies (1:07)
25  Ritornelle (0:54)
26  Thanks to these lonesome vales (2:47)
27  Dance: ‘Gitter Ground’ (2:23)
Oft she visits this lone mountain
A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido’s women
28  Behold, upon my bending spear (0:34)
29  Haste, haste to town! (0:50)
30  Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command (2:35)
31  [Dance: Hornpipe from The Married Beau] (0:49)

ACT III · Scene: The Ships
32  Prelude 
Come away, fellow sailors (1:34)
33  The Sailors’ Dance (0:46)
34  See the flags and streamers curling (0:58)
35  Our next motion (0:33)
36  Destruction our delight (0:34)
37  The Witches’ Dance (1:12)
38  Your counsel all is urg’d in vain (3:54)
39  Great minds against themselves conspire (0:58)
40  Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (0:47)
41  When I am laid in earth (3:41)
42  With drooping wings (2:15)
43  Cupids’ Dance (2:36)

44 Pavan in G minor z752 for three violins and continuo (5:08)

Total time: 61:56

Recorded 9 – 15 September 1994, St Giles Cripplegate, London
Producer: John Hadden
Executive producer: Malcolm Bruno
Recording engineers: John Hadden, David Henschel
Technician: Billy Rothschild
Edited and mastered by John Hadden