Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Camilla Tilling - Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
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Artist: Camilla Tilling
Composer: Henry Purcell
Conductor: Emmanuelle Ha?m
Performer: Susan Graham
Performer: Ian Bostridge
Performer: David Daniels
Performer: Paul Agnew
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Music Label: Virgin Veritas
Soundtracks:
  1. Overture
  2. Act 1. Shake the cloud from off your brow
  3. Act 1. Banish sorrow, banish care
  4. Act 1. Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment
  5. Act 1. Grief increases by concealing
  6. Act 1. When monarchs unite, how happy their state
  7. Act 1. Whence could so much virtue spring?
  8. Act 1. Fear no danger to ensue
  9. Act 1. See, you Royal Guest appears
  10. Act 1. Cupid only throws the dart
  11. Act 1. If not for mine, for empire's sake
  12. Act 1. To the hills and the vales
  13. Act 1. The triumphing dance
  14. Act 2. Scene 1. Wayward sisters, you that fright / Harm's our delight
  15. Act 2. Scene 1. The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate / Ho Ho Ho!
  16. Act 2. Scene 1. Ruined ere the set of sun? / Ho Ho Ho!
  17. Act 2. Scene 1. But ere we this perform
  18. Act 2. Scene 1. In our deep vaulted cell
  19. Act 2. Scene 1. Echo Dance of Furies
  20. Act 2. Scene 2. Ritornelle
  21. Act 2. Scene 2. Thanks to these lonesome vales
  22. Act 2. Scene 2. Oft she visits this lone mountain
  23. Act 2. Scene 2. Behold, upon my bending spear
  24. Act 2. Scene 2. Haste, haste to town
  25. Act 3. Scene 1. Come away, fellow sailors
  26. Act 3. Scene 1. Come away, fellow sailors
  27. Act 3. Scene 1. The Sailors' Dance
  28. Act 3. Scene 1. See the flags and streamers curling
  29. Act 3. Scene 1. Our next motion
  30. Act 3. Scene 1. Destruction's our delight
  31. Act 3. Scene 1. The Witches' Dance
  32. Act 3. Scene 2. Your counsel all is urged in vain
  33. Act 3. Scene 2. Great minds against themselves conspire
  34. Act 3. Scene 2. Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me
  35. Act 3. Scene 2. When I am laid in earth
  36. Act 3. Scene 2. With drooping wings

Music reviews of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Music Review: Agincourt II: The French Win
Rating: 5 Stars

When a friend recently mentioned how much he'd enjoyed a recent session of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, I decided to add the album to my MP3 music library. The difficult question was: which version? English, or French? After comparing the English Concert's take with Emmanuelle Haim's sensational performance, however, the choice became clear. Ms. Haim has lifted an opera, often interpreted in a formal and somber way, skyward to the heavens, but replete with conflict and shading that is entirely appropriate to this ancient material. That is, she's created a living and breathing love story with a sonic richness that does full justice to Virgil's glorious passages.

Yes, the denouement of the story is a tearjerker, but some say it's better to have loved and lost than to have not loved at all. And you'll love this glorious French rendition; it's a superior effort.

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Description of Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

This new, period instrument version of Purcell's wonderful, brief Dido and Aeneas shows up in a very crowded field. There are close to two dozen other versions available, many of them also historically informed. Here we have a dignified, beautifully sung reading, with instrumentalists performing with a similar sense of loveliness and reserve; indeed, the only time true overt emotionalism shows up is when the witches appear: Felicity Palmer is a nasty handful as the Sorceress. Susan Graham's Dido is elegant and, note-for-note, probably gives us among the best Didos on disc. Ian Bostridge's Aeneas is good without being outstanding; David Daniels and Paul Agnew make remarkable cameos. I prefer the performance led by Ren? Jacobs or starring Janet Baker to this one for sheer drama, but you can't go wrong with Graham, et al, under Emmanuelle Haim's intensely musical leadership either. --Robert Levine

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