The Armonico Consert and soloists perform Henry Purcell's evergreen chamber opera Dido & Aeneas, the work based on Virgil's epic, the Aeneid. Armonico Consert is one of the largest and most innovative organizations of it's kind in the UK, existing to inspire audiences with it's unique programs. About Armonico Consert: "... The whole thing seems suffused with light reflected from Manahan Thomas' voice, and Steele-Perkins' effortlessly projected trumpet." (BBC Radio 3 CD review of Let The Bright Seraphim, SIGCD289) "... a disc of unending delight." (Gramophone review of Naked Byrd Two, SIGCD235).

Tracklist:

Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Belinda & Chorus - “shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Dido - “ah! Belinda, I Am Press’d With Torment”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Belinda & Dido - “grief Increases By Concealing”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Chorus - “when Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Dido & Belinda - “whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Belinda, Second Woman & Chorus - “fear No Danger To Ensue”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Belinda, Aeneas, Dido - “see, Your Royal Guest Appears”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Chorus - “cupid Only Throws The Dart”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Aeneas - “if Not For Mine, For Empire’s Sake”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Belinda - “pursue Thy Conquest Love”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1 - Guitars’ Chaconne
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: Chorus - “to The Hills And The Vales”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I Scene 1: The Triumphing Dance
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Prelude For The Witches (Sorceress & First Witch) - “wayward Sisters”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “harm’s Our Delight”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Sorceress - “the Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: First & Second Witches, Sorceress - “ruin’d Ere The Set Of Sun?&rdquo
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!” (Reprise)
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: First & Second Witches -“but, Ere We This Perform”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “in Our Deep Vaulted Cell”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance Of Furies
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Belinda & Chorus - “thanks To These Lonesome Vales”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Second Woman - “oft She Visits This Lone Mountain”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Aeneas & Dido - “behold, Upon My Bended Spear”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Belinda & Chorus - “haste To Town”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Spirit & Aeneas: “stay, Prince! And Hear Great Jove’s Command”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Sailor’s Dance I
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Drunken Sailor & Chorus - “come Away, Fellow Sailors”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Sailor’s Dance II
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Sorceress, First & Second Witches - “see, The Flags And Streamers Curling&
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Sorceress - “our Next Motion”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Chorus - “destruction’s Our Delight”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Witches’ Dance
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido, Belinda & Aeneas - “your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Chorus - “great Minds Against Themselves Conspire”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido - “thy Hand, Belinda, Darkness Shades Me”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido - “when I Am Laid In Earth”
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Chorus - “with Drooping Wings”

UPC: 635212041727
Label: Signum Classics
Release Date: 6.9.15
Format: CD

Purcell / Armonico Consort / Monks / Lloyd - Dido & Aeneas (CD)