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Semele
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Semele

Released 199377 tracks · 174:39Several languagesDeutsche Grammophon

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1.1Semele: Ouverture. GavotteGeorge Frideric Handel9:04
1.2Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)Mark S. Doss1:26
1.3Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)Ambrosian Opera Chorus3:08
1.4Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance0:58
1.5Semele: 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)Kathleen Battle2:44
1.6Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)Kathleen Battle7:05
1.7Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)Michael Chance0:18
1.8Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)Michael Chance4:38
1.9Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Michael Chance0:48
1.10Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance2:45
1.11Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)Ambrosian Opera Chorus2:00
1.12Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)George Frideric Handel0:39
1.13Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)Kathleen Battle, Michael Chance0:17
1.14Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)Ambrosian Opera Chorus0:36
1.15Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:30
1.16Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)Marilyn Horne8:26
1.17Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas)Michael Chance0:25
1.18Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)Michael Chance4:56
1.19Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)Marilyn Horne, Michael Chance0:47
1.20Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)Marilyn Horne, Michael Chance2:29
1.21Semele: 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"Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance2:07
1.22Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)Ambrosian Opera Chorus1:34
1.23Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)Kathleen Battle, Ambrosian Opera Chorus4:30
2.1Semele: Act II. SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel1:31
2.2Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair0:46
2.3Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)Sylvia McNair3:27
2.4Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - Accompagnato "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair1:55
2.5Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)Marilyn Horne3:23
2.6Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)Kathleen Battle3:10
2.7Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)Kathleen Battle0:16
2.8Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)John Aler3:02
2.9Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)John Aler0:23
2.10Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele)Kathleen Battle2:54
2.11Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)Ambrosian Opera Chorus3:06
2.12Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter)Kathleen Battle, John Aler1:23
2.13Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)John Aler3:44
2.14Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)Ambrosian Opera Chorus2:21
2.15Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)Kathleen Battle, John Aler1:18
2.16Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)John Aler4:53
2.17Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne0:46
2.18Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)Marilyn Horne2:14
2.19Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne2:02
2.20Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)Ambrosian Opera Chorus2:43
3.1Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tuttoGeorge Frideric Handel1:22
3.2Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)Marilyn Horne0:31
3.3Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)John Aler, Samuel Ramey3:07
3.4Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair0:40
3.5Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)Samuel Ramey2:14
3.6Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey1:23
3.7Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey1:53
3.8Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)Kathleen Battle2:53
3.9Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne1:14
3.10Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno)Marilyn Horne2:40
3.11Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)Kathleen Battle0:19
3.12Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)Kathleen Battle6:39
3.13Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)Marilyn Horne0:37
3.14Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)Marilyn Horne1:28
3.15Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)Kathleen Battle2:13
3.16Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne0:32
3.17Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)John Aler2:58
3.18Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - Air "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)Kathleen Battle, John Aler1:42
3.19Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele)Kathleen Battle, John Aler0:15
3.20Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)John Aler0:27
3.21Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)Kathleen Battle, John Aler0:34
3.22Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)John Aler1:11
3.23Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)Kathleen Battle5:14
3.24Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)John Aler3:01
3.25Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)Marilyn Horne2:22
3.26Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)Kathleen Battle3:44
3.27Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)Marilyn Horne0:21
3.28Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus)Ambrosian Opera Chorus3:56
3.29Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)Marilyn Horne, Michael Chance1:00
3.30Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)Michael Chance5:03
3.31Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)Samuel Ramey0:17
3.32Semele: Act III, Scene the last. SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel1:29
3.33Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)Neil Mackie0:57
3.34Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)Ambrosian Opera Chorus2:56

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