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Semele George Frideric Handel; Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Sylvia McNair, Michael Chance, John Nelson

Release: 02 Jun 1993 Europe, Language: [Multiple languages], Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 77, Length: 2:54:39, Barcode: 028943578226
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 Semele: Ouverture. Gavotte 9:03
2 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest) 1:26
3 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests) 3:07
4 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas) 0:57
5 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Ah me! What refuge now is left for me?" - Air "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" (Semele) 2:43
6 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele) 7:04
7 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas) 0:17
8 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas) 4:38
9 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele) 0:48
10 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) 2:44
11 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests) 1:59
12 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus) 0:38
13 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele) 0:17
14 Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests) 0:36
15 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas) 0:29
16 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino) 8:25
17 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas) 0:24
18 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas) 4:55
19 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas) 0:47
20 Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas) 2:28
21 Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!" - "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" - "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" / Scene IV. "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come" 2:07
22 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs) 1:34
23 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus) 4:30
CD #2
1 Semele: Act II. Sinfonia 1:30
2 Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris) 0:46
3 Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris) 3:26
4 Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - Accompagnato "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris) 1:55
5 Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno) 3:23
6 Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele) 3:09
7 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele) 0:16
8 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter) 3:02
9 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter) 0:23
10 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele) 2:53
11 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs) 3:06
12 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter) 1:23
13 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter) 3:44
14 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs) 2:21
15 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele) 1:17
16 Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter) 4:53
17 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino) 0:46
18 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino) 2:13
19 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino) 2:01
20 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains) 2:43
CD #3
1 Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tutto 1:21
2 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris) 0:31
3 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus) 3:07
4 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno) 0:40
5 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus) 2:14
6 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus) 1:22
7 Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus) 1:52
8 Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele) 2:53
9 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele) 1:13
10 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno) 2:40
11 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele) 0:19
12 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele) 6:39
13 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele) 0:37
14 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno) 1:27
15 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele) 2:13
16 Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele) 0:31
17 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter) 2:57
18 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - Air "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele) 1:42
19 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele) 0:14
20 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter) 0:26
21 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele) 0:33
22 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter) 1:11
23 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele) 5:13
24 Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter) 3:01
25 Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno) 2:21
26 Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele) 3:44
27 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino) 0:21
28 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus) 3:55
29 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) 0:59
30 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas) 5:03
31 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus) 0:17
32 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Sinfonia 1:28
33 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo) 0:56
34 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus) 2:56

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