Semele

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

Track list

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)

Labels

=> Deutsche Grammophon

435 782-2

Release events

1993-06-02 Europe

Relations

chorus master

=> 🧑 John McCarthy

conductor

=> 🧑 John Nelson

performing orchestra

=> 🧑 English Chamber Orchestra

vocal

=> 🧑 John Aler

vocal

=> 🧑 Ambrosian Singers

vocal

=> 🧑 Kathleen Battle

vocal

=> 🧑 Michael Chance

vocal

=> 🧑 Mark S. Doss

vocal

=> 🧑 Marilyn Horne

vocal

=> 🧑 Neil Mackie

vocal

=> 🧑 Sylvia McNair

vocal

=> 🧑 Samuel Ramey

amazon asin

=> https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000001GGP

discogs

=> https://www.discogs.com/release/9315728

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