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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 Inch... The whole thing seems suffused with light reflected from Manahan Thomas' voice, and Steele-Perkins' effortlessly projected trumpet.Inch (BBC Radio 3 CD review of Let The Bright Seraphim, SIGCD289) Inch... a disc of unending delight.Inch (Gramophone review of Naked Byrd Two, SIGCD235). Album Tracks 1. Overture 2. Shake the Cloud from Off Your Brow 3. Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment 4. Grief Increases By Concealing 5. When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State 6. Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? 7. Fear No Danger to Ensue 8. See, Your Royal Guest Appears 9. Cupid Only Throws the Dart 10. If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake 11. Pursue Thy Conquest Love 12. Guitars' Chaconne 13. To the Hills and the Vales 14. The Triumphing Dance 15. Wayward Sisters 16. Harm's Our Delight 17. The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate 18. Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho! 19. Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun? 20. Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho! (Reprise) 21. But, Ere We This Perform 22. In Our Deep Vaulted Cell 23. Echo Dance of Furies 24. Ritornelle 25. Thanks to These Lonesome Vales 26. Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain 27. Behold, Upon My Bended Spear 28. Haste to Town 29. Stay, Prince! and Hear Great Jove's Command 30. The Sailor's Dance I 31. Come Away, Fellow Sailors 32. The Sailor's Dance II 33. See, the Flags and Streamers Curling 34. Our Next Motion 35. Destruction's Our Delight 36. The Witches' Dance 37. Your Counsel All Is Urged in Vain 38. Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire 39. Thy Hand, Belinda, Dar