HENRY PURCELL Dido & Aeneas, opera (London, 1689) Nicholas McGegan, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - "a model Dido" (San Francisco Examiner) - joins "Early music's irrepressible evangelist" (The Wall Street Journal) Nicholas McGegan in a vividly theatrical performance of Purcell's miniature tragédie en musique. Heading the brilliant cast, the mezzo-soprano gives a transcendent reading of Dido's final lament. The CD also includes the incidental music for a now-lost play The Gordian Knot Unty'd.
"Aural luxuriance... A reading I shall treasure." - Gramophone
This title was released for the first time in 1994.