Artist: Joyce DiDonato, Fatma Said, Michael Spyres, Il pomo d'oro, Maxim Emelyanychev Title: Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Warner Classics Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz Total Time: 52:24 Total Size: 943 MB Tracklist: 1. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture (1:46) 2. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda) (0:34) 3. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Chorus) (0:31) 4. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Ah! Belinda, I Am Pressed with Torment" (Dido) (4:00) 5. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Grief Increases by Concealing" (Belinda, Dido) (0:32) 6. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" (Chorus) (0:13) 7. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring" (Dido, Belinda) (1:43) 8. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Fear No Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Attendant, Chorus) (1:29) 9. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "See, See Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) (0:51) 10. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" (Chorus) (0:34) 11. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "If Not for Mine, for Empire’s Sake" - "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" (Aeneas, Belinda) (1:14) 12. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: "To the Hills and the Vales" (Chorus) (1:23) 13. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 1: The Triumphing Dance (1:10) 14. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters" - "Harm's Our Delight" - (Sorceress, First Witch, Chorus) (2:28) 15. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "The Queen of Carthage" - "Ho Ho Ho" (Sorceress, Chorus) (0:40) 16. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Ruin’d Ere the Set of Sun" - "Ho Ho Ho" (First Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress, Chorus) (1:09) 17. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "But, Ere We This Perform" (First Witch, Second Witch) (1:09) 18. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" (Chorus) (1:18) 19. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: Echo Dance of the Furies (1:08) 20. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: Ritornelle (0:33) 21. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus) (2:48) 22. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Oft She Visits This Loved Mountain" (Attendant) (1:51) 23. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Behold, Upon My Bended Spear" (Aeneas, Dido) (0:34) 24. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Haste, Haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus) (0:42) 25. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 2: "Stay, Prince!" (Spirit, Aeneas) (2:36) 26. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" (Sailor, Chorus) (1:23) 27. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: The Sailors' Dance (0:52) 28. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "See, See, the Flags and Streamers Curling" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) (0:59) 29. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm" (Sorceress) (0:35) 30. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Destruction’s Our Delight" (Chorus) (0:30) 31. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: The Witches’ Dance (1:47) 32. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Your Counsel, All Is Urg’d in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) (3:36) 33. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "But Death, Alas! I Cannot Shun" (Dido) (0:24) 34. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus) (0:54) 35. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido) (0:58) 36. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: Dido's Lament. "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Dido) (3:31) 37. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act 3: "With Drooping Wings" (Chorus) (4:18) The acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato stars as Dido in this recording of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, captured at Essen Philharmonie as part of a celebrated European tour in 2024. The album includes Joyce’s rendition of Dido’s famous lament “When I am laid in earth” – a staple of her repertoire, though she only performed the opera in its entirety for the first time last year. With Il Pomo d’Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, the cast also features Michael Spyres as Aeneas, Fatma Said as Dido’s companion Belinda, and Hugh Cutting as the Spirit, alongside Beth Taylor, Carlotta Colombo, Laurence Kilsby, Alena Dantcheva and Anna Piroli