Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Semele: Overture
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    7:17
  • 2
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise" (Priest)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:46
  • 3
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Chorus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:38
  • 4
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Ah, me!" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:52
  • 5
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:23
  • 6
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Avert these omens" (Chorus of Priests)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:04
  • 7
    Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Cease, cease your vows" (Chorus of Priests)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    0:33
  • 8
    Semele: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    0:56
  • 9
    Semele: Act I, Scene II. "You've undone me" (Ino)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:07
  • 10
    Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince" (Cadmus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:48
  • 11
    Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "See, see!" (Cadmus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:06
  • 12
    Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:51
  • 13
    Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Chorus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:46
  • 14
    Semele: Act II. Sinfonia / Scene I. "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:58
  • 15
    Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands" (Iris)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    6:49
  • 16
    Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Hence, Iris, hence away!" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:38
  • 17
    Semele: Act II, Scene II. "Come, Zephyrs, come" (Cupid)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    6:30
  • 18
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Let me not another moment" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:26
  • 19
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Lay your doubts" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:32
  • 20
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "With fond desiring" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:28
  • 21
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "How engaging" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:45
  • 22
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Too well I read her meaning" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:15
  • 23
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Now Love" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:27
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "By my command" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    0:28
  • 2
    Semele: Act II, Scene III. "See, she appears" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:56
  • 3
    Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:53
  • 4
    Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!" (Semele & Ino)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:57
  • 5
    Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Bless the glad earth" (Chorus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:46
  • 6
    Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:25
  • 7
    Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Leave me, loathsome light!" (Somnus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:32
  • 8
    Semele: Act III, Scene I. "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:14
  • 9
    Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Obey my will" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:17
  • 10
    Semele: Act III, Scene II. "My racking thoughts" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:52
  • 11
    Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:38
  • 12
    Semele: Act III, Scene III. "O ecstasy of happiness!" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    8:07
  • 13
    Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:21
  • 14
    Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:14
  • 15
    Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Come to my arms" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:51
  • 16
    Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "I ever am granting" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:10
  • 17
    Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Ah, take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:13
  • 18
    Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "No, no, I'll take no less" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:11
  • 19
    Semele: Act III, Scene V. "Ah, whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:21
  • 20
    Semele: Act III, Scene VI. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:27
  • 21
    Semele: Act III, Scene VII. "Ah, me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:22
  • 22
    Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:11
  • 23
    Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:31
  • 24
    Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:14

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