Behold upon my bending spear

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695). Dido & Æneas. Opera In Three Acts

Overture

Act I
Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow (Belinda, Chorus)
Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd With Torment (Dido)
Grief Increases By Concealing (Belinda, Dido) / When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State (Chorus)
Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring? (Dido, Belinda)
Fear No Danger To Ensue (Belinda, Chorus)
See Our Royal Guest Appears (Belinda, Æneas) / Cupid Only Throws The Dart (Chorus)
If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake (Æneas) / Pursue Thy Conquest, Love (Belinda) / To The Hills And The Vales (Chorus)
The Triumphing Dance

Act II
Prelude For The Witches / Wayward Sisters, You That Fright (Sorceress) / Harm's Our Delight (Chorus)
The Queen Of Carthage (Sorceress) / Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus) / Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun? (First Witch, Sorceress) / Ho! Ho! Ho! (Chorus)
But Ere We This Perform (First And Second Witches)
In Our Deep Vaulted Cell (Chorus In The Manner Of An Echo) / Echo Dance Of Furies
Ritornelle / Thanks To These Lonesome Vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain (Second Woman)
Behold Upon My Bending Spear (Æneas, Dido) / Haste, Haste To Town (Belinda, Chorus)
Stay Prince (Spirit, Æneas)
Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped (Chorus) / The Grove's Dance

Act III
Prelude / Come Away (Sailor, Chorus) / The Sailor's Dance
See, See The Flags (Sorceress, First Witch) / Our Next Motion (Sorceress)
Destruction's Our Delight (Chorus)
The Witches' Dance
Your Councel All Is Urged In Vain (Dido, Belinda, Æneas)
Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire (Chorus) / Thy Hand, Belinda (Dido)
When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido)
With Drooping Wings (Chorus)

Dido: Nicola Wemyss
Belinda: Francine van der Heijden
Aeneas: Matthew Baker
Second Woman: Penni Clarke
Sorceress: Helene Rasker
A Sailor: Richard Zook
Spirit: Rowena Simpson

Musica Ad Rhenum
Jed Wentz