Lynne Dawson, Rosemary Joshua, Gerald Finley, René Jacobs - Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (2007)

Tracklist

01. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Ouverture
02. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda "Shake the Cloud"
03. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Dido "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest"
04. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda "Grief Increase By Concealing"
05. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus "When Monarchs Unite"
06. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Dido "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?"
07. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda, Second Woman "Fear No Danger to Ensue"
08. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda "See, Your Royal Guest Appears"
09. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus "Cupid Only Throws the Dart"
10. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Aeneas "If Not for Mine"
11. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda "Pursue Thy Conquest"
12. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus "To the Hills and the Vales"
13. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: The Triumphing Dance
14. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Prelude for the Witches
15. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus "Harm's Our Delight"
16. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Sorceress "The Queen of Carthage"
17. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus "Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!"
18. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Two Witches "But Ere We This Perform"
19. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell"
20. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Echo Dance of Furies
21. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Ritornelle
22. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Belinda "Thanks to These Lovesome Vales"
23. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Second Woman "Oft She Visits This Lov'd Mountain"
24. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Aeneas "Behold, Upon My Bending Spear"
25. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Belinda "Haste, Haste to Town"
26. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Spirit "Stay, Prince and Hear Great Jove's Command"
27. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus "Then Since Our Charmse Have Sped"
28. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: The Groves Dance
29. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Prelude
30. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus "Come Away, Fellow Sailors"
31. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Sorceress "See the Flags and Streamers Curling"
32. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Sorceress "Our Next Motion"
33. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus "Destruction's Our Delight"
34. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: The Witches's Dance
35. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Dido "Your Counsel All Is Urged In Vain"
36. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire"
37. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Dido "Thy Hand, Belinda"
38. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Dido "When I Am Laid In Earth"
39. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus "With Dropping Wings Ye Cupids Come"



Le chef-d’œuvre de l’opéra anglais! C’est vraisemblablement en 1684-85, un an ou deux après la création de son modèle évident, Venus and Adonis de John Blow, que Purcell composa pour le roi Charles II ce Didon et Enée devenu aujourd’hui un monument de la scène lyrique. La mort prématurée du souverain explique peut-être pourquoi l’on a longtemps cru que l’opéra avait été écrit pour le pensionnat de jeunes filles de Chelsea où il fut donné en 1689 ; quoi qu’il en soit, la finesse de construction de Dido and Aeneas met en évidence l’extraordinaire sens dramatique de Purcell, qui transpose dans sa musique le mélange savoureux de comique et de tragique propre au théâtre anglais depuis la fin du XVIe siècle.

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