Semele
Album by George Frideric Handel; Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Sylvia McNair, Michael Chance, John Nelson
Released 2 June 1993
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Semele: Ouverture. GavotteGeorge Frideric Handel9:03
- 2Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)George Frideric Handel1:26
- 3Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)George Frideric Handel3:07
- 4Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:57
- 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)George Frideric Handel2:43
- 6Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)George Frideric Handel7:04
- 7Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:17
- 8Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel4:38
- 9Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)George Frideric Handel0:48
- 10Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)George Frideric Handel2:44
- 11Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)George Frideric Handel1:59
- 12Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)George Frideric Handel0:38
- 13Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)George Frideric Handel0:17
- 14Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)George Frideric Handel0:36
- 15Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:29
- 16Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)George Frideric Handel8:25
- 17Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:24
- 18Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel4:55
- 19Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:47
- 20Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)George Frideric Handel2:28
- 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"George Frideric Handel2:07
- 22Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)George Frideric Handel1:34
- 23Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)George Frideric Handel4:30
- CD 2
- 1Semele: Act II. SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel1:30
- 2Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)George Frideric Handel0:46
- 3Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)George Frideric Handel3:26
- 4Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - Accompagnato "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)George Frideric Handel1:55
- 5Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)George Frideric Handel3:23
- 6Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)George Frideric Handel3:09
- 7Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)George Frideric Handel0:16
- 8Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel3:02
- 9Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel0:23
- 10Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele)George Frideric Handel2:53
- 11Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)George Frideric Handel3:06
- 12Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter)George Frideric Handel1:23
- 13Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel3:44
- 14Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)George Frideric Handel2:21
- 15Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)George Frideric Handel1:17
- 16Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel4:53
- 17Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)George Frideric Handel0:46
- 18Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)George Frideric Handel2:13
- 19Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)George Frideric Handel2:01
- 20Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)George Frideric Handel2:43
- CD 3
- 1Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tuttoGeorge Frideric Handel1:21
- 2Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)George Frideric Handel0:31
- 3Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)George Frideric Handel3:07
- 4Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)George Frideric Handel0:40
- 5Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)George Frideric Handel2:14
- 6Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)George Frideric Handel1:22
- 7Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)George Frideric Handel1:52
- 8Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)George Frideric Handel2:53
- 9Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)George Frideric Handel1:13
- 10Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno)George Frideric Handel2:40
- 11Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)George Frideric Handel0:19
- 12Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)George Frideric Handel6:39
- 13Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)George Frideric Handel0:37
- 14Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)George Frideric Handel1:27
- 15Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)George Frideric Handel2:13
- 16Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)George Frideric Handel0:31
- 17Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel2:57
- 18Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - Air "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)George Frideric Handel1:42
- 19Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele)George Frideric Handel0:14
- 20Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel0:26
- 21Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)George Frideric Handel0:33
- 22Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel1:11
- 23Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)George Frideric Handel5:13
- 24Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)George Frideric Handel3:01
- 25Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)George Frideric Handel2:21
- 26Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)George Frideric Handel3:44
- 27Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)George Frideric Handel0:21
- 28Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus)George Frideric Handel3:55
- 29Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)George Frideric Handel0:59
- 30Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)George Frideric Handel5:03
- 31Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)George Frideric Handel0:17
- 32Semele: Act III, Scene the last. SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel1:28
- 33Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)George Frideric Handel0:56
- 34Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)George Frideric Handel2:56
More by George Frideric Handel, Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Sylvia McNair, Michael Chance, John Nelson
Release credits
- choir vocals, choir vocals [3.28, 3.34, 1.3, 1.11, 1.14, 1.22-23, 2.11, 2.14, 2.20]
- producer [1.1-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-23, 2.1-20, 3.1-34]
- performing orchestra, performing orchestra [1.1-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-23, 2.1-20, 3.1-34]
- balance [2.1-20, 3.1-34, 1.1-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-23]
- tenor vocals, tenor vocals [2.8-9, 2.12-13, 2.15-16, 3.3, 3.17-22, 3.24]
- chorus master
- conductor, conductor [1.1-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-23, 2.1-20, 3.1-34]
- soprano vocals, soprano vocals [1.5-6, 1.9-10, 1.13, 1.23, 2.6-7, 2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19, 3.8-9, 3.11-12, 3.15-16, 3.18-19, 3.21, 3.23, 3.26]
- mezzo-soprano vocals, mezzo-soprano vocals [1.9-10, 1.16, 1.19-21, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6-7, 3.9-10, 3.13-14, 3.16, 3.25, 3.27, 3.29, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.17-19]
- bass-baritone vocals, bass vocals [2]
- countertenor vocals, countertenor vocals [1.4, 1.7-10, 1.13, 1.17-21, 3.29-30]
- tenor vocals, tenor vocals [33]
- bass vocals, bass vocals [3.3, 3.5-7, 3.31, 1.4, 1.10, 1.21]
- soprano vocals, soprano vocals [3.4, 2.2-4]
Issues
S3x CD2 June 1993