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In the late 1980s, William Christie and Les Arts Florissants recorded galvanizing versions of two masterpieces of early English opera Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen. These two seminal interpretations are now available again, coupled for the first time in a single boxed set. Album Tracks 1. Dido and Aeneas~Overture 2. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Solo and Chorus Shake the cloud 3. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Song Ah! Belinda, I am prest 4. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative Grief increases by concealing 5. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus When monarchs unite 6. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative Whence could so much virtue spring? 7. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Duet and Chorus Fear no danger to ensue 8. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative See, your Royal Guest appears 9. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus Cupid only throws the dart 10. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Recitative If not for mine 11. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Air Pursue thy conquest 12. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. Chorus To the hills and the vales 13. Dido and Aeneas~Act I. The Triumphing Dance 14. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Prelude for the Witches Wayward Sisters, you that fright 15. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus Harm's our delight 16. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative The Queen of Carthage 17. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus Ho! Ho! Ho! / Recitative Ruin'd ere the set of sun 18. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Duet But ere we this perform 19. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Chorus In our deep vaulted cell 20. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Echo Dance of Furies 21. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Ritornelle 22. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus Thanks to these lonesome vales 23. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song Oft she visits this lone mountain 24. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Recitative Behold, upon my bending spear 25. Dido and Aeneas~Act II. Song and Chorus Haste, haste to town 26. Dido a
