Semele

Release by Händel; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Track list

CD 1

=> 1 Semele: Overture (7:17)
=> 2 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise" (Priest) (1:46)
=> 3 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Chorus) (4:38)
=> 4 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Ah, me!" (Semele) (3:52)
=> 5 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus) (3:23)
=> 6 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Avert these omens" (Chorus of Priests) (3:04)
=> 7 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Cease, cease your vows" (Chorus of Priests) (0:33)
=> 8 Semele: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas) (0:56)
=> 9 Semele: Act I, Scene II. "You've undone me" (Ino) (3:07)
=> 10 Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince" (Cadmus) (1:48)
=> 11 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "See, see!" (Cadmus) (2:06)
=> 12 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Semele) (2:51)
=> 13 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Chorus) (1:46)
=> 14 Semele: Act II. Sinfonia / Scene I. "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno) (1:58)
=> 15 Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands" (Iris) (6:49)
=> 16 Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Hence, Iris, hence away!" (Juno) (3:38)
=> 17 Semele: Act II, Scene II. "Come, Zephyrs, come" (Cupid) (6:30)
=> 18 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Let me not another moment" (Semele) (3:26)
=> 19 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Lay your doubts" (Jupiter) (3:32)
=> 20 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "With fond desiring" (Semele) (3:28)
=> 21 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "How engaging" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) (4:45)
=> 22 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Too well I read her meaning" (Jupiter) (4:15)
=> 23 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Now Love" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) (2:27)

CD 2

=> 1 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "By my command" (Jupiter) (0:28)
=> 2 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "See, she appears" (Jupiter) (5:56)
=> 3 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" (Semele) (2:53)
=> 4 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!" (Semele & Ino) (1:57)
=> 5 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Bless the glad earth" (Chorus) (2:46)
=> 6 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno) (2:25)
=> 7 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Leave me, loathsome light!" (Somnus) (4:32)
=> 8 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "More sweet is that name" (Somnus) (4:14)
=> 9 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Obey my will" (Juno) (2:17)
=> 10 Semele: Act III, Scene II. "My racking thoughts" (Semele) (2:52)
=> 11 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno) (1:38)
=> 12 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "O ecstasy of happiness!" (Semele) (8:07)
=> 13 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno) (1:21)
=> 14 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" (Semele) (3:14)
=> 15 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Come to my arms" (Jupiter) (2:51)
=> 16 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "I ever am granting" (Semele) (3:10)
=> 17 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Ah, take heed what you press!" (Jupiter) (1:13)
=> 18 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "No, no, I'll take no less" (Semele) (5:11)
=> 19 Semele: Act III, Scene V. "Ah, whither is she gone!" (Jupiter) (3:21)
=> 20 Semele: Act III, Scene VI. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno) (2:27)
=> 21 Semele: Act III, Scene VII. "Ah, me! too late I now repent" (Semele) (3:22)
=> 22 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino) (4:11)
=> 23 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus) (2:31)
=> 24 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus) (3:14)

Labels

=> Erato

2292-45982-2

Release events

1993

Relations

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=> 🧑 Norma Burrowes

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=> 🧑 Maldwyn Davies

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=> 🧑 Catherine Denley

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=> 🧑 Della Jones

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=> 🧑 Patrizia Kwella

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=> 🧑 Robert Lloyd

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=> 🧑 Monteverdi Choir

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=> 🧑 Timothy Penrose

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=> 🧑 Elisabeth Priday

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=> 🧑 David Thomas

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