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Jessye Norman (Dido), Thomas Allen (Aeneas), Marie McLaughlin (Belinda), Patricia Kern (Sorceress), Helen Walker (1st witch), Della jones (2nd witch), Elizabeth Gale (2nd woman), Patrick Power (1st sailor), Derek Ragin (spirit) ; with chorus and continuo (Charles Tunnell, violoncello, Adrian Beers, double-bass, and Raymond Leppard & Robert Aldwinkle, harpsichords) ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Raymond Leppard, conductor.

Recorded in London, June 1985.

Contents:

"Dido and Aeneas." "Shake the cloud from off your brow" ; "Ah! Belinda, I am prest" ; "Whence could so much virtue spring?" ; "Fear no danger" ; "See, your Royal Guest appears" ; "If not for mine" ; "To the hills and the vales" ; The triumphing dance -- Prelude for the Witches ; "Wayward sisters" ; "But ere we this perform" ; "In our deep vaulted cell" ; Echo dance of the Furies ; "Thanks to these lonesome vales" ; "Oft she visits" ; "Behold, upon my bending spear" ; "Stay, Prince" ; "Jove's commands shall be obey'd" -- "Come away, fellow sailors" ; The sailors' dance ; "See the flags" ; "Destruction's our delight" ; The Witches' dance -- "Your counsel all is urged in vain" ; "But death, alas!" ; "Thy hand, Belinda" ; "When I am laid in earth" ; "With drooping wings."

Publisher Number:

4782121

Other Number:

14627957

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Control Number:

347822

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Call Number:

CD B PURC DA N21

Medium:

[sound recording]