Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Tatiana Troyanos (Dido), Sheila Armstrong (Belinda), Barry McDaniel (Aeneas), Patricia Johnson (Sorceress), Paul Esswood (Spirit)
Sir Charles Mackerras
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- Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1967-10-04
- Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Overture
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1
- Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Barry McDaniel (baritone), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Baker (soprano), Paul Esswood (alto), Jürgen Jürgens (chorus master)
- Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1967-10-04
- Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
"Shake the cloud from off your brow"
"Ah! Belinda" / "Grief increases" / "When monarchs unite"
"Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
"See, your royal guest appears" / "Cupid only throws.."
"If not for mine, for empire's sake" ... "To the hills and the vales"
The Triumphing Dance
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2
- Margaret Baker (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Paul Esswood (alto), Patricia Johnson (alto), Patricia Johnson (mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Lensky (contralto), Barry McDaniel (baritone), Jürgen Jürgens (chorus master)
- Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1967-10-04
- Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
"Prelude for..." / "Harms our..." / "The Queen" / "Ho,ho,ho"
"Ruin'd ere the set of sun" ... "But ere we this perform"
"In our deep vaulted cell"
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3
- Nigel Rogers (tenor), Margaret Baker (soprano), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Patricia Johnson (mezzo-soprano), Margaret Lensky (contralto), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Barry McDaniel (baritone), Jürgen Jürgens (chorus master)
- Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1967-10-04
- Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
The Sailors' Dance "See the flags and streamers curling"
"Our next motion" - "Destructions's our delight"
Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328
- John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Simon Woolf (treble), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Michael Rippon (bass), Roland Tatnell (countertenor), Alexander Young (tenor)
- English Chamber Orchestra, Tiffin Choir, Ambrosian Singers
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1969-01-11
- Recording Venue: Wembley Town Hall, London
Symphony
Hail, bright Cecilia! (I)
Hail, bright Cecilia! (II)