Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"

Name: Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
Duration: 4 min 6 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
3.14	“Thy hand, Belinda” and “When I am laid in earth” from Dido and Aeneas	4:12	Purcell	The New Anthology of Music	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	GB2000	Edition Peters	EP 7591CD

vocals:	Carolyn Watkinson (Dido) (mezzo-soprano and contralto) (in 1990-07)
orchestra:	English Baroque Soloists (The English Baroque Soloists) (in 1990-07)
conductor:	John Eliot Gardiner (in 1990-07)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	Philips Classics Productions (not for release label use!—classical music division of Polygram, reorganized as Philips Music Group in 1997) (from 1993 to present)

recorded at:	Saint George’s, Bristol (Brandon Hill) in Bristol (in 1990-07)

recording of:	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 36. Recitative “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido) Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 37. Ground, Aria and Ritornello “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)

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

part of:	Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III (number) (order: 10)
is the basis for:	Death Is Now a Welcome Guest

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)