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Ritornelle Lyrics

RITORNELLE (Orchestra)

BELINDA (repeated by CHORUS)
Thanks to these lonesome vales,
these desert hills and dales,
So fair the game, so rich the sport,
Diana's self might to these woods resort.
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BBC Music, Volume 3, Number 5: Dido & Aeneas (Taverner Choir & Players feat. conductor: Andrew Parrott) (1995)
Overture Shake the Cloud Ah! Belinda Grief Increases When Monarchs Unite Whence Could So Much Virtue Fear No Danger Dance See, Your Royal Guest Cupid Only Throws the Dart If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake Pursue Thy Conquest, Love Guitar Dance To the Hills and the Vales Triumphing Dance Wayward Sisters Harm's Our Delight The Queen of Carthage Ha, Ha, Ha Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun? Ha, Ha, Ha But Ere We This Perform Echo Chorus (In Our Deep-Vaulted Cell) Echo Dance of the Furies Ritornelle Thanks to These Lonesome Vales Dance (Oft She Visits) Behold, Upon My Bending Spear Haste, Haste to Town! Stay, Prince, and Hear Grove's Dance Prelude (Come Away) Sailor's Dance See the Flags Our Next Motion Destruction's Our Delight Witches' Dance Your Counsel All Great Minds Against Themselves Thy Hand, Belinda Dido's Lament With Drooping Wings Cupid's Dance