Handel, G.: Semele [Oratorio]

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Semele, HWV 58 (more info)
Performed by: Early Opera Company Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini Alexander Weimann David Parry Steven White Christian Curnyn
Ralf Popken, alto
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Richard Croft, tenor
Knut Schoch, tenor
William Congreve,
Bruce Ford, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Hilary Summers, contralto
Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Stephen Wallace, counter-tenor
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Gail Pearson, soprano
David Cohen, cello
Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Britta Schwarz, alto
Elisabeth Scholl, soprano
Julla Schmidt, soprano
Bejun Mehta,
Klaus Mertens, baritone
Annette Markert, mezzo-soprano


1. Act I: Overture - 05:11
2. Act I: Gavotte - 02:23
3. Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) - 01:26
4. Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - 03:37
5. Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) - 01:04
6. Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) - 02:54
7. Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) - 06:28
8. Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) - 03:56
9. Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) - 00:58
10. Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) - 02:17
11. Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - 02:15
12. Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) - 00:48
13. Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) - 00:19
14. Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - 00:40
15. Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) - 00:30
16. Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) - 08:42
17. Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) - 00:27
18. Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) - 03:53
19. Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) - 00:57
20. Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) - 02:21
21. Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) - 02:32
22. Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - 01:58
23. Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) - 02:54
24. Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) - 01:46

Semele, HWV 58 (more info)
Performed by: Early Opera Company Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini Alexander Weimann David Parry Steven White Christian Curnyn
Ralf Popken, alto
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Richard Croft, tenor
Knut Schoch, tenor
William Congreve,
Bruce Ford, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Hilary Summers, contralto
Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Stephen Wallace, counter-tenor
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Gail Pearson, soprano
David Cohen, cello
Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Britta Schwarz, alto
Elisabeth Scholl, soprano
Julla Schmidt, soprano
Bejun Mehta,
Klaus Mertens, baritone
Annette Markert, mezzo-soprano


1. Act II: Symphony - 01:49
2. Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) - 01:05
3. Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) - 02:59
4. Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) - 02:26
5. Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) - 03:53
6. Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) - 06:03
7. Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) - 02:47
8. Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) - 00:22
9. Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) - 03:07
10. Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) - 00:34
11. Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) - 03:34
12. Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) - 02:46
13. Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) - 01:36
14. Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) - 04:04
15. Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) - 02:32
16. Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) - 01:33
17. Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) - 03:28
18. Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) - 00:47
19. Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) - 01:30
20. Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) - 02:06
21. Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) - 02:39

Semele, HWV 58 (more info)
Performed by: Early Opera Company Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini Alexander Weimann David Parry Steven White Christian Curnyn
Ralf Popken, alto
Elizabeth Kenny, lute
Richard Croft, tenor
Knut Schoch, tenor
William Congreve,
Bruce Ford, tenor
Brindley Sherratt, bass
Hilary Summers, contralto
Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Stephen Wallace, counter-tenor
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Gail Pearson, soprano
David Cohen, cello
Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Britta Schwarz, alto
Elisabeth Scholl, soprano
Julla Schmidt, soprano
Bejun Mehta,
Klaus Mertens, baritone
Annette Markert, mezzo-soprano


1. Act III: Symphony - 01:53
2. Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) - 00:32
3. Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) - 03:07
4. Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) - 00:35
5. Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) - 02:19
6. Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus) - 01:26
7. Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus) - 01:59
8. Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) - 03:15
9. Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele) - 01:08
10. Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno) - 02:56
11. Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) - 00:13
12. Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele) - 06:47
13. Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele) - 00:30
14. Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) - 01:27
15. Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) - 02:18
16. Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) - 00:36
17. Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter) - 03:02
18. Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) - 01:39
19. Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) - 01:20
20. Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter) - 01:16
21. Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) - 05:28
22. Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter) - 02:57
23. Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) - 02:40
24. Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) - 03:02
25. Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) - 00:18
26. Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) - 03:05
27. Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) - 00:53
28. Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas) - 05:25
29. Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) - 00:19
30. Act III: Symphony - 02:10
31. Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo) - 01:06
32. Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) - 03:48

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