Listen to Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear by John Shirley-Quirk, Josephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Colin Davis

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Behold, Upon My Bending Spear

John Shirley-Quirk, Josephine Veasey, Helen Donath, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Colin Davis

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John Shirley-Quirk

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Josephine Veasey

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Helen Donath

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Academy of St Martin in the Fields

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Sir Colin Davis

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