Semele
20080799
Labels: Naxos
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Act I
| 1 | Act I: Overture | George Frideric Handel | 5:08 |
| 2 | Act I: Gavotte | George Frideric Handel | 2:23 |
| 3 | Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) | George Frideric Handel | 1:26 |
| 4 | Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) | George Frideric Handel | 3:37 |
| 5 | Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 1:03 |
| 6 | Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:53 |
| 7 | Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 6:27 |
| 8 | Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 3:55 |
| 9 | Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:58 |
| 10 | Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:17 |
| 11 | Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) | George Frideric Handel | 2:15 |
| 12 | Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) | George Frideric Handel | 0:47 |
| 13 | Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:18 |
| 14 | Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) | George Frideric Handel | 0:39 |
| 15 | Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:30 |
| 16 | Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 8:42 |
| 17 | Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:27 |
| 18 | Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 3:52 |
| 19 | Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:56 |
| 20 | Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 2:21 |
| 21 | Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 2:31 |
| 22 | Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) | George Frideric Handel | 1:57 |
| 23 | Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:54 |
| 24 | Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) | George Frideric Handel | 1:46 |
Act II
| 1 | Act II: Symphony | George Frideric Handel | 1:46 |
| 2 | Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 1:04 |
| 3 | Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 2:59 |
| 4 | Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 2:25 |
| 5 | Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 3:53 |
| 6 | Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) | George Frideric Handel | 6:02 |
| 7 | Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:47 |
| 8 | Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:22 |
| 9 | Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:06 |
| 10 | Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 0:33 |
| 11 | Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 3:33 |
| 12 | Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) | George Frideric Handel | 2:45 |
| 13 | Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 1:35 |
| 14 | Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 4:03 |
| 15 | Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) | George Frideric Handel | 2:32 |
| 16 | Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:33 |
| 17 | Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:28 |
| 18 | Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 0:47 |
| 19 | Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 1:30 |
| 20 | Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:06 |
| 21 | Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) | George Frideric Handel | 2:39 |
Act III
| 1 | Act III: Symphony | George Frideric Handel | 1:51 |
| 2 | Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 0:31 |
| 3 | Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 3:07 |
| 4 | Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 0:34 |
| 5 | Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 2:19 |
| 6 | Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 1:25 |
| 7 | Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 1:59 |
| 8 | Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 3:14 |
| 9 | Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:08 |
| 10 | Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 2:55 |
| 11 | Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:12 |
| 12 | Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 6:47 |
| 13 | Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:30 |
| 14 | Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 1:27 |
| 15 | Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:18 |
| 16 | Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:36 |
| 17 | Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:02 |
| 18 | Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:39 |
| 19 | Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:19 |
| 20 | Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 1:16 |
| 21 | Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 5:27 |
| 22 | Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 2:57 |
| 23 | Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 2:40 |
| 24 | Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 3:01 |
| 25 | Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 26 | Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) | George Frideric Handel | 3:05 |
| 27 | Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:52 |
| 28 | Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 5:25 |
| 29 | Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) | George Frideric Handel | 0:19 |
| 30 | Act III: Symphony | George Frideric Handel | 2:10 |
| 31 | Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo) | George Frideric Handel | 1:05 |
| 32 | Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) | George Frideric Handel | 3:47 |