"Dido's Lament" from "Dido and Aeneas"

Name: "Dido's Lament" from "Dido and Aeneas"
Duration: 4 min 11 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.16	"Dido's Lament" from "Dido and Aeneas"	4:11	Purcell	Music: An Appreciation, Sixth Edition	Roger Kamien	Other + Compilation	US1996	The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc	0-07-912159-4
2.16	Dido's Lament - Part 2/2	4:13	Henry Purcell	Music: An Appreciation, Seventh Edition	Roger Kamien	Other		The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, Sony Music Special Products	0-07-290204-3, A 27236, A 27237, A 27238, A 27239, A 27240, A 27241, A 27242, A 27243, A8 27235

mezzo-soprano vocals:	Janet Baker (mezzo‐soprano and alto)
orchestra:	English Chamber Orchestra
conductor:	Anthony Lewis (conductor and composer)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	The Decca Record Company Limited (not a release label; for copyrights use only) (in 1962)

recording of:	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 37. Ground, Aria and Ritornello “When I am laid in earth” (Dido) (partial)

composer:	Henry Purcell (Baroque composer) (in 1689)
librettist:	Nahum Tate

referred to in medleys:	Suite
part of:	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III (number) (order: 11)
orchestrations:	Dido’s Lament Suite of Five Pieces: IV. When I am Laid in Earth (Stokowski orchestration)
arrangements:	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III “Thy Hand Belinda” / Dido’s Lament “When I am Laid in Earth” (arr. Henry Wood) Dido and Aeneas: “When I am laid in earth” (Dido’s Lament) (catch‐all for arrangements) Remember Me When I Am Laid in Earth (arr. Wallen)