Purcell: Dido and Aeneas; Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Behold, upon my bending spear"/"Haste, haste to town"

Sheila Armstrong, Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: "See, your royal guest appears"/"Cupid only throws.."

Sheila Armstrong, Tatiana Troyanos, Paul Esswood, Barry McDaniel, Sir Charles Mackerras & Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: "If not for mine, for empire's sake" ... "To the hills and the vales"

Sheila Armstrong, Barry McDaniel, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: The Triumphing Dance

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Prelude for..."/"Harms our..."/"The Queen"/"Ho,ho,ho"

Margaret Baker, Patricia Johnson, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" ... "But ere we this perform"

Margaret Baker, Patricia Johnson, Margaret Lensky, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "In our deep vaulted cell"

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: Echo Dance Of Furies

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales" - Gitter Ground a Dance

Sheila Armstrong, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Oft she visits"

Margaret Baker, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: "Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"

Sheila Armstrong, Margaret Baker, Tatiana Troyanos, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Stay, Prince"

Paul Esswood, Barry McDaniel, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2: "Then since our charms have sped" - "A Dance" - The Groves Dance

Margaret Baker, Patricia Johnson, Margaret Lensky, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"

Nigel Rogers, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: The Sailors' Dance "See the flags and streamers curling"

Margaret Baker, Patricia Johnson, Margaret Lensky, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "Our next motion" - "Destructions's our delight"

Patricia Johnson, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: The Witches' Dance

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire"

Sheila Armstrong, Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda"/"When I am laid in earth"

Tatiana Troyanos, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3: "With drooping wings..." - Cupids´ Dance

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar

Paul Esswood, Alexander Young, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Hail, bright Cecilia! (I)

Michael Rippon, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Hail, bright Cecilia! (II)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Tiffin Choir & Ambrosian Singers

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Hark, hark, each tree its silence breaks

Simon Woolf, John Shirley-Quirk & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Tis Nature's voice

English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Soul of the world

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Tiffin Choir & Ambrosian Singers

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Thou tun'st this world below, the spheres above

Sir Charles Mackerras, Simon Woolf, Tiffin Choir, Ambrosian Singers & English Chamber Orchestra

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: With that sublime celestial lay

Paul Esswood, Roland Tatnell, Michael Rippon, Sir Charles Mackerras & English Chamber Orchestra

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Wondrous machine!

John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: The airy violin

English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Symphony

English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: The fife, and all the harmony of war

English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Let these amongst themselves contest

Michael Rippon, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Hail, bright Cecilia! (III)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Tiffin Choir & Ambrosian Singers

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: With rapture of delight

Paul Esswood, Roland Tatnell, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Hail, bright Cecilia! (IV)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Tiffin Choir & Ambrosian Singers

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626: Overture

Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"

Sheila Armstrong, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg & Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1: "Ah! Belinda"/"Grief increases"/"When monarchs unite"

Sheila Armstrong, Tatiana Troyanos, Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg, Sir Charles Mackerras & Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg