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Released on Decca Records, also Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones), Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee) and La Vie en rose (Louis Armstrong)
Written by Henry Purcell, also Cold Song (Sting), Dido and Aeneas: Act III. “Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me” (Dido) / “When I am laid in earth” (Dido) (Anne Sofie von Otter) and The Cold Song (Klaus Nomi)
Part of Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979, also Owen Wingrave, op. 85: Act 2. Ah, Owen, what shall I do?, The Rape of Lucretia: Act II, Scene 2. "Last night Tarquinius ravished me" and Herminie, H. 29: II. “Ah ! Si de la tendresse”
Written by Nahum Tate, also Dido and Aeneas: Act III. “Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me” (Dido) / “When I am laid in earth” (Dido) (Anne Sofie von Otter), While Shepherds Watched (Descant Willcocks) (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge) and While Shepherds Watched (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge)
Worth knowing
Counted from cited credits on fono.
Henry Purcell wrote 541 songs on fono
Nahum Tate wrote 43 songs on fono
Henry Purcell’s most frequent co-writer is Nahum Tate (36 songs together)
Henry Purcell first appears on fono in 1954, 40 years before this song
Credits
All 7 credits
- Written by
- Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate
- Performed by
- Dame Janet Baker, St. Anthony Singers and Thurston Dart
- Released on
- Decca Records
- Written by
- Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate
- Performed by
- Dame Janet Baker, St. Anthony Singers and Thurston Dart
- Released on
- Decca Records
Connected by credits
Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.
Same writer: Henry Purcell
Same writer: Nahum Tate
Same label: Decca Records
Same release: Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979
Same writer: Nahum Tate
Same label: Decca Records
Same release: Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979
Same writer: Henry Purcell
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1MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by Dame Janet Baker
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by Dame Janet Baker
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2MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by St. Anthony Singers
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by St. Anthony Singers
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3MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by Thurston Dart
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was performed by Thurston Dart
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4MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was written by Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was written by Henry Purcell
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5MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was written by Nahum Tate
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was written by Nahum Tate
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6MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! is part of the release Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! is part of the release Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-1979
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7MusicBrainz Decca Records is the label of the song Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas!
Decca Records is the label of the song Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas!
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8MusicBrainz Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was released on 1994
Dido and Aeneas: But Death, alas! was released on 1994
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