The Armonico Consert and soloists perform Henry Purcell's evergreen chamber opera Dido & Aeneas, the work based on Virgil's epic, the Aeneid. Armonico Consert is one of the largest and most innovative organizations of it's kind in the UK, existing to inspire audiences with it's unique programs. About Armonico Consert: "... The whole thing seems suffused with light reflected from Manahan Thomas' voice, and Steele-Perkins' effortlessly projected trumpet." (BBC Radio 3 CD review of Let The Bright Seraphim, SIGCD289) "... a disc of unending delight." (Gramophone review of Naked Byrd Two, SIGCD235).
Tracks: 1.1 Overture 1.2 Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow 1.3 Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment 1.4 Grief Increases By Concealing 1.5 When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State 1.6 Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? 1.7 Fear No Danger to Ensue 1.8 See, Your Royal Guest Appears 1.9 Cupid Only Throws the Dart 1.10 If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake 1.11 Pursue Thy Conquest Love 1.12 Guitars' Chaconne 1.13 To the Hills and the Vales 1.14 The Triumphing Dance 1.15 Wayward Sisters 1.16 Harm's Our Delight 1.17 The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate 1.18 Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho! 1.19 Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun? 1.20 Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho! (Reprise) 1.21 But, Ere We This Perform 1.22 In Our Deep Vaulted Cell 1.23 Echo Dance of Furies 1.24 Ritornelle 1.25 Thanks to These Lonesome Vales 1.26 Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain 1.27 Behold, Upon My Bended Spear 1.28 Haste to Town 1.29 Stay, Prince! and Hear Great Jove's Command 1.30 The Sailor's Dance I 1.31 Come Away, Fellow Sailors 1.32 The Sailor's Dance II 1.33 See, the Flags and Streamers Curling 1.34 Our Next Motion 1.35 Destruction's Our Delight 1.36 The Witches' Dance 1.37 Your Counsel All Is Urged in Vain 1.38 Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire 1.39 Thy Hand, Belinda, Darkness Shades Me 1.40 When I Am Laid in Earth 1.41 With Drooping Wings
