Purcell • Dido and Aeneas • World Record Club SH 117 • Kirsten Flagstad • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf • Thomas Hemsley • The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra • Geraint Jones

Description

Dido and Aeneas, Opera in Three Acts
1 Overture

Act I
2 Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda)
3 Ah! Belinda, I Am Press’d With Torment (Dido
4 Grief Increases By Concealing (Belinda)
5 Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido)
6 Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belinda)
7 See, Your Royal Guest Appears (Belinda)
8 Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus) 0:35
9 If Not For Mine, For Empire’s Sake (Aeneas)
10 Pursue Thy Conquest, Love (Belinda)
11 To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus)
12 The Triumphing Dance

Act II
13 Prelude For The Witches
14 Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress)
15 Harms Our Delight (Chorus)
16 The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate (Sorceress)
17 Ruin’d Ere The Set Of Sun? (Two Witches)
18 But, Ere We This Perform (Two Witches)
19 In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Echo Chorus)
20 Echo Dance Of Furies
21 Ritornelle
22 Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda)
23 Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman)
24 Behold, Upon My Bending Spear (Aeneas)
25 Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda)
26 Stay, Prince! And Hear Great Jove’s Command (Spirit)
27 Then Since Our Charm’s Have Sped (Chorus)

Act III
28 Prelude: Come Away, Fellow Sailors, Your Anchors Be Weighing (1st Sailor)
29 The Sailor’s Dance
30 See The Flags And Streamers Curling (Sorceress)
31 Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
32 Destruction’s Our Delight (Chorus)
33The Witches’ Dance
34 Your Counsel All Is Urg’d In Vain (Dido)
35 Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus)
36 Thy Hand, Belinda; Darkness Shades Me (Dido)
37 When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido)
38 With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come (Chorus)

Cello – Raymond Clark

Baritone Vocals [Aeneas] – Thomas Hemsley
Soprano Vocals [Dido] – Kirsten Flagstad
Soprano Vocals [Belinda] – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Soprano Vocals [First Lady] – Eilidh McNab
Soprano Vocals [Second Lady] – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Soprano Vocals [First Witch] – Sheila Rex
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Second Witch] – Anna Pollak
Tenor Vocals [ Sailor] – David Lloyd
Soprano Vocals [Sorceress] – Arda Mandikian
Soprano Vocals [Attendant Spirit] – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Chorus – The Mermaid Singers And Orchestra

Orchestra – The Mermaid Singers And Orchestra
Conductor – Geraint Jones

Enregistré les 15 & 16 octobre 1952