Handel: Semele

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. No.1 Ouverture
• 2. Allegro - Adagio -
• 3. Gavotte
• 4. No.2 Cadmus: 'Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise!'
• 5. No.3 Chorus: 'Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites'
• 6. No.4 Cadmus: 'Daughter, Obey'
• 7. No.5 Semele: 'Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?'
• 8. No.6 Semele: 'The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note'
• 9. No.7 Athamus: 'See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes'
• 10. No.8 Athamus: 'Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare'
• 11. No.9 Ino: 'Alas! She Yields'
• 12. No.10 Cadmus: 'Why Does Thou Thus Untimely Grieve'
• 13. No.11 Chorus: 'Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!'
• 14. No.12 Cadmus: 'Again Auspicious Flashes Rise'
• 15. No.13 Athamus: 'Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamus Implores'
• 16. No.14 Chorus: 'Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious To Proceed'
• 17. No.15 Athamus: 'O Athamus, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!'
• 18. No.16 Ino: 'Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes'
• 19. No.17 Athamus: 'She Weeps! The Gentle Maid, In Tender Pity'
• 20. No.18 Athamus: 'Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell'
• 21. No.19 Ino: 'Too Well I See'
• 22. No.20 Ino: 'You've Undone Me'
• 23. Medley: No.21 Cadmus: 'Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd To Disastrous Love!'/Cadmus: 'See, See, Jove's Pr
• 24. No.22 Chorus: 'Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salues the Theban King!'
• 25. No.23 Semele: 'Endless Pleasure, Endless Love'

Disc 2

• 1. No.24 Sinfonia - Presto
• 2. No.25 Juno: 'Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay'
• 3. No.26 Iris: 'There, From Mortal Cares Retiring'
• 4. No.27 Juno: 'No More -- I'll Hear No More'
• 5. No.28 Juno: 'Hence, Iris, Hence Away'
• 6. No.30 Semele: 'O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?'
• 7. No.31 Semele: 'Let Me Not Another Moment'
• 8. No.32 Jupiter: 'Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside'
• 9. No.33 Jupiter: 'You Are Mortal, And Require'
• 10. No.34 Semele: 'With Fond Desiring'
• 11. No.35 Chorus: 'How Engaging, How Endearing'
• 12. Medley: No.36 Semele: 'Ah Me!'/Jupiter: 'Why Sighs My Semele?'
• 13. No.37 Jupiter: 'I Must With Speed Amuse Her'
• 14. No.38 Chorus: 'Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites'
• 15. No.39 Jupiter: 'By My Command'
• 16. No.40 Jupiter: 'Where'er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan the Glade'
• 17. No. 41 Semele: 'Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?'
• 18. No.42 Ino: 'But Hark! The Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round'
• 19. No.43 Ino And Semele: 'Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir'
• 20. No.44 Chorus: 'Bless the Glad Earth With Heav'nly Lays'

Disc 3

• 1. No.45 [Sinfonia] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto
• 2. No.46 Juno: 'Somnus, Awake'
• 3. No.47 Somnus: 'Leave Me, Loathsome Light'
• 4. No.48 Iris: 'Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall'
• 5. No.49 Somnus: 'More Sweet Is That Name'
• 6. No.50 Juno: 'My Will Obey'
• 7. No.51 Juno: 'Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign'
• 8. No.52 Semele: 'My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed'
• 9. No.53 Juno: 'Thus Shap'd Like Ino'
• 10. No.54 Semele: 'Myself I Shall Adore'
• 11. No.55 Juno: 'Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful'
• 12. No.56 Semele: 'Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid'
• 13. No.57 Juno: 'Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air'
• 14. No.58 Jupiter: 'Come To My Arms, My Lovely Fair'
• 15. No.59 Jupiter: 'O Semele'
• 16. No.60 Semele: 'I Ever Am Granting'
• 17. No.61 Jupiter: 'Speak, Speak Your Desire'
• 18. No.62 Semele: 'You'll Grant What I Require'
• 19. No.63 Semele: 'Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear'
• 20. No.64 Jupiter: 'Ah, Take Heed What You Press'
• 21. No.65 Semele: 'No, No! I'll Take No Less'
• 22. No.66 Jupiter: 'Ah! Whither Is She Gone! Unhappy Fair!'
• 23. No.67 Juno: 'Above Measure'
• 24. No.68 Semele: 'Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent'
• 25. No.69 Ino: 'Of My Ill-Boding Dream'
• 26. No.70 Chorus: 'O Terror And Astonishment!'
• 27. No.71 Ino: 'How I Was Hence Remov'd'
• 28. No.72 Athamus: 'Despair No More Shall Wound Me'
• 29. No.73 Cadmus: 'See From Above the Bellying Clouds Descend'
• 30. No.74 Sinfonia
• 31. No.75 Apollo: 'Apollo Comes To Relieve Your Care'
• 32. No.76 All: 'Happy, Happy Shall We Be'