Didonato, Joyce Spyres, Michae | Purcell Dido & Aeneas | CD

Joyce DiDonato is an American mezzo-soprano whose work spans opera, concert repertoire and projects that cross musical boundaries. Her expressive singing and attention to text connect classical technique with a strong sense of communication and drama.

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas is presented in this CD edition on Erato. The 36-track programme opens with Overture, includes Echo Dance of the Furies, and closes with With Drooping Wings.

Track List

Disc 1

1. Overture
2. Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow
3. Banish Sorrow, Banish Care
4. Belinda I Am Pressed With Torment
5. Grief Increases By Concealing
6. When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State
7. Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring
8. Fear No Danger to Ensue
9. See, See Your Royal Guest Appears
10. Cupid Only Throws the Dart
11. If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake, . Pursue Thy Conquest, Love
12. To the Hills and the Vales
13. The Triumphing Dance
14. Prelude for the Witches: Wayward Sisters -Harm's Our Delight
15. The Queen of Carthage: Ho Ho Ho
16. Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun: Ho Ho Ho
17. But, Ere We This Perform
18. In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
19. Echo Dance of the Furies
20. Ritornelle
21. Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
22. Oft She Visits This Loved Mountain
23. Behold, Upon My Bended Spear
24. Haste, Haste to Town
25. Stay Prince!
26. Come Away, Fellow Sailors
27. The Sailor's Dance
28. See, See, the Flags and Streamers Curling
29. Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
30. Destruction's Our Delight
31. The Witches' Dance
32. Your Counsel, All Is Urg'd in Vain
33. But Death, Alas! I Cannot Shun
34. Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire
35. Thy Hand, Belinda . When I Am Laid in Earth
36. With Drooping Wings