Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Dido & Aeneas
Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Dame Janet Baker, Benjamin Britten, The Ambrosian Singers, Steuart Bedford, Sir Peter Pears, Jennifer Vyvyan, English Chamber Orchestra
"Now the night is chas'd away"
"Let the fifes and the clarions.Dance"
"Prelude.Come, all ye songsters of the sky"
"The songsters.May the god of wit inspire"
"Echo.Now join your warbling voices all"
"Fill up the bowl"
No. 17 "Hush, no more"
"If love's a sweet passion.I press her hand"
"Now the maids and the men are making of hay"
"A thousand, thousand ways"
"Hark! Hark the echoing air"
"Sure the dull God of Marriage"
"My torch indeed.They shall be as happy"
"Shake the cloud from off your brow"
Steuart Bedford, Norma Burrowes, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House
"Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
Norma Burrowes, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Dame Janet Baker, Steuart Bedford
"Whence could so much virtue spring?"
Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Dame Janet Baker, Norma Burrowes
"Fear no danger to ensue"
Steuart Bedford, Dame Felicity Lott, Norma Burrowes, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House
"See your royal guest appears"
Sir Peter Pears, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Dame Janet Baker, Steuart Bedford, Norma Burrowes
Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward Sisters"
Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Sir Peter Pears, Norma Burrowes
"Ruin'd ere the set of sun?"
Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Steuart Bedford
Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome dales"
Felicity Palmer, Anna Reynolds, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Steuart Bedford, Alfreda Hodgson
"Oft she visits this lov'd mountain"
Alfreda Hodgson, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Felicity Palmer, Steuart Bedford
"Behold, upon my bending spear"
Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Steuart Bedford
"Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command"
Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Norma Burrowes
Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
Steuart Bedford, Dame Felicity Lott, Aldeburgh Festival Strings
"See the flags and streamers curling"
Sir Peter Pears, Steuart Bedford, Norma Burrowes, Dame Janet Baker, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House
"Your counsel all is urg'd in vain"
Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Sir Peter Pears, Steuart Bedford, Timothy Everett
"But death, alas! .When I am laid in earth"
Sir Peter Pears, Alfreda Hodgson, Felicity Palmer, Steuart Bedford, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Anna Reynolds
"With drooping wings ye cupids come"
Steuart Bedford, Robert Tear, Aldeburgh Festival Strings, Chorus of the Royal Opera House
Production
- David HarveyProducer
- Christopher RaeburnProducer
- Benjamin BrittenEditing Engineer
- Sir Peter PearsEditing Engineer
- Imogen HolstEditing Engineer
- Peter van BieneRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer