PURCELL: DIDO & AENEAS (PLUS BONUS ARIAS) - JANET BAKER, ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (plus Bonus Arias)

Janet Baker
Patricia Clark; Eileen Poulter; Monica Sinclair; Rhianon James; Catherine Wilson; Dorothy Dorow;
Raimund Herincx; John Mitchinson; St. Anthony Singers; (Choirmaster: John McCarthy)
English Chamber Orchestra; Cello continuo: Terence Weill; harpischord continuo: Thurston Dart
Anthony Lewis

“Janet Baker’s recording is a truly great performance. The radiant beauty of the voice is obvious enough, but the emotion is implied, as it should be in this music …the contrast between the opening phrase of When I am laid in earth and its repeat a few bars later is a model of graduated mezza voce…. Lewis and the ECO produce the crispest and lightest of playing, which never sounds rushed” (Penguin Rosette)

1. Overture 2:12
Act One

2. Shake the clouds from off your brow 1:02
3. Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment 4:38
4. Whence could so much virtue spring? 1:59
5. Fear no danger 1:32
6. See your Royal guest appears 4:43
7. Wayward sisters 3:04
8. Ruin’d ere the set of sun 4:56

Act Two

9. Ritornelle…Thanks to these lonesome vales 3:24
10. Oft she visits 2:21
11. Behold, upon my bending spear 1:20
12. Stay, Prince 2:41

Act Three

13. Prelude…Come away, fellow sailors…Sailors’ Dance 2:22
14. See the flags…Destruction’s our delight…
The Witches’ Dance 3:22
15. Your counsel all is urged in vain 3:25
16. But death alas!…Great minds…Thy hand, Belinda 2:19
17. When I am laid in earth…With drooping wings 6:39

Bonus Tracks

18. Arise, ye subterranean winds (The Tempest: Purcell) 3:06
Hervey Alan
19. Halcyon days (The Tempest: Purcell) 5:44
Jennifer Vyvyan
20. What Shall I Do? (Dioclesian: Purcell) 4:37
Jennifer Vyvyan
18-20 Philomusica of London conducted Anthony Lewis; Rec. 1958