Nicholas McGegan, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
1h00
Digital
HMU907110
Apple Music
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - "a model Dido" (San Francisco Examiner) - joins "Early music's irrepressible evangelist" (The Wall Street Journal) Nicholas McGegan in a vividly theatrical performance of Purcell's miniature tragédie en musique. Heading the brilliant cast, the mezzo-soprano gives a transcendent reading of Dido's final lament. The CD also includes the incidental music for a now-lost play The Gordian Knot Unty'd. "Aural luxuriance... A reading I shall treasure." - Gramophone This title was released for the first time in 1994.
HENRY PURCELL [1659-1695] DIDO AND AENEAS · Overture (1'51) · ACT I The Palace (13'01) · ACT II Scene I: The Cave (6'25) · Scene 2: The Grove (10'06) · ACT III Scene I: The Ships (5'28) · Scene 2: The Palace (12'58) · The Gordian Knot Unty'd Incidental Music (10'05)
