Semele - George Frideric Handel; Joachim Carlos Martini, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Scholl, Schmidt, Popken, Schwarz, Markert, Schoch, Mertens

Semele

Album by George Frideric Handel; Joachim Carlos Martini, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Scholl, Schmidt, Popken, Schwarz, Markert, Schoch, Mertens

Released July 2008

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CD 1: 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
CD 2: 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
CD 3: 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