Overture
Peace and I are strangers grown
Fear no danger
Cupid has thrown the dart
A splendid time together
The triumphs of love
Love dance
The witches
Ritornel
The sailors
Horizon
Sailors & witches
Triumphant witches
Crazy witches
Great minds against themselves conspire
Dido’s lament
With drooping wings

A MUSICAL STORY OF LOVE AND LOSS

Love is a rollercoaster, and so is this swinging new take on Virgil’s classical tragedy. Dido & Aeneazz is a recomposition of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by Raaf Hekkema, combined with newly-composed music by Eric Vloeimans. The album showcases the congenial collaboration between the versatile reed players of Calefax and renowned trumpet player Eric Vloeimans. Dido & Aeneazz invites the listener to join a musical journey that virtuously flows from the baroque original to jazz, calypso and klezmer, and back.

Acclaimed in the Netherlands and abroad, the members of Calefax arguably invented a completely new genre: the reed quintet. After their successful PENTATONE debut with Hidden Gems, these gentlemen add yet another treasure to their discography.

---

This album was recorded at the Lutherse Kerk, Haarlem, 25-27 June 2018.