tracks

Overture
"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
Ritornello - "Thanks To These Lonesome Vales"
"Oft She Visits"
"Behold, Upon My Bending Spear"
"Stay, Prince"
"Jove's Commands Shall Be Obey'd"
Prelude - "Come Away, Fellow Sailors"
The Sailor's 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"

notes

Recorded London 5/1985.

℗ 1986 Universal International Music BV
© 2010 Decca Music Group Limited

credits

Baritone Vocals [Aeneas] – Thomas Allen
Cello – Charles Tunnell
Chorus Master – Jane Glover
Composed By – Henry Purcell
Conductor, Harpsichord – Raymond Leppard
Countertenor Vocals [Spirit] – Derek Ragin,
Double Bass – Adrian Beers
Harpsichord – Robert Aldwinkle,
Leader – José-Luis Garcia
Libretto By – Nahum Tate
Liner Notes – Clifford Bartlett
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [2nd Witch] – Della Jones
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Patricia Kern
Orchestra – English Chamber Orchestra
Photography By – Zoë Dominic
Soprano Vocals [1st Witch] – Helen Walker (5)
Soprano Vocals [2nd Woman] – Elizabeth Gale
Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Marie McLaughlin
Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Jessye Norman
Tenor Vocals [1st Sailor] – Patrick Power

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