Semele
Vocal: John Aler (tenor vocals)Vocal: Ambrosian Singers (choir vocals)
Vocal: Kathleen Battle (soprano vocals)
Vocal: Michael Chance (countertenor vocals)
Vocal: Mark S. Doss (bass-baritone vocals)
Vocal: Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano vocals)
Vocal: Neil Mackie (tenor vocals)
Vocal: Sylvia McNair (soprano vocals)
Vocal: Samuel Ramey (bass vocals)
19930602
Labels: Deutsche Grammophon
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Disc1
| 1 | Semele: Ouverture. Gavotte | George Frideric Handel | 9:03 |
| 2 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest) | George Frideric Handel | 1:26 |
| 3 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests) | George Frideric Handel | 3:07 |
| 4 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 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) | George Frideric Handel | 2:43 |
| 6 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 7:04 |
| 7 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 8 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 4:38 |
| 9 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:48 |
| 10 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:44 |
| 11 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests) | George Frideric Handel | 1:59 |
| 12 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus) | George Frideric Handel | 0:38 |
| 13 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 14 | Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests) | George Frideric Handel | 0:36 |
| 15 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:29 |
| 16 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 8:25 |
| 17 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:24 |
| 18 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 4:55 |
| 19 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:47 |
| 20 | Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 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" | George Frideric Handel | 2:07 |
| 22 | Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs) | George Frideric Handel | 1:34 |
| 23 | Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus) | George Frideric Handel | 4:30 |
Disc2
| 1 | Semele: Act II. Sinfonia | George Frideric Handel | 1:30 |
| 2 | Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 0:46 |
| 3 | Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 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) | George Frideric Handel | 1:55 |
| 5 | Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 3:23 |
| 6 | Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 3:09 |
| 7 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:16 |
| 8 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:02 |
| 9 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 0:23 |
| 10 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:53 |
| 11 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs) | George Frideric Handel | 3:06 |
| 12 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 1:23 |
| 13 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:44 |
| 14 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs) | George Frideric Handel | 2:21 |
| 15 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:17 |
| 16 | Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 4:53 |
| 17 | Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 0:46 |
| 18 | Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 2:13 |
| 19 | Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 2:01 |
| 20 | Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains) | George Frideric Handel | 2:43 |
Disc3
| 1 | Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tutto | George Frideric Handel | 1:21 |
| 2 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris) | George Frideric Handel | 0:31 |
| 3 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 3:07 |
| 4 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 0:40 |
| 5 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 2:14 |
| 6 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 1:22 |
| 7 | Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus) | George Frideric Handel | 1:52 |
| 8 | Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:53 |
| 9 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 1:13 |
| 10 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 2:40 |
| 11 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:19 |
| 12 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 6:39 |
| 13 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:37 |
| 14 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 1:27 |
| 15 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 2:13 |
| 16 | Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:31 |
| 17 | Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 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) | George Frideric Handel | 1:42 |
| 19 | Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 0:14 |
| 20 | Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 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) | George Frideric Handel | 0:33 |
| 22 | Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 1:11 |
| 23 | Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 5:13 |
| 24 | Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter) | George Frideric Handel | 3:01 |
| 25 | Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno) | George Frideric Handel | 2:21 |
| 26 | Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele) | George Frideric Handel | 3:44 |
| 27 | Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino) | George Frideric Handel | 0:21 |
| 28 | Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus) | George Frideric Handel | 3:55 |
| 29 | Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 0:59 |
| 30 | Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas) | George Frideric Handel | 5:03 |
| 31 | Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus) | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 32 | Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Sinfonia | George Frideric Handel | 1:28 |
| 33 | Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo) | George Frideric Handel | 0:56 |
| 34 | Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus) | George Frideric Handel | 2:56 |