Handel: Semele

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Overture - Mertens, Klaus
• 2. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Gavotte - Mertens, Klaus
• 3. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) - Mertens, Klaus
• 4. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - Elisabeth Scholl
• 5. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) - Jul
• 6. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) - Elisabe
• 7. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) - Mertens, Klaus
• 8. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) - Mertens, Klaus
• 9. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) - Mer
• 10. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) -
• 11. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) - Julla Schm
• 12. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) - Elisabeth Scholl
• 13. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) - Me
• 14. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs
• 15. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) - Schwarz, Bri
• 16. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) - Julla Schmidt
• 17. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) - Ralf Popken
• 18. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) - Knut Schoch
• 19. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) - Anne
• 20. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) - Schwarz, Britta
• 21. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!
• 22. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augur
• 23. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) - Julla Schmidt
• 24. Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) - Mertens, Klaus

Disc 2

• 1. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Symphony - Ralf Popken
• 2. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) - Schwarz, Britta
• 3. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) - Knut Schoch
• 4. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) - Elis
• 5. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) - Julla Schmidt
• 6. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) - Mertens, Klaus
• 7. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) - Mertens, Klaus
• 8. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) - M
• 9. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) - Knut Schoch
• 10. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) - Mertens, Kla
• 11. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) - Knut Schoch
• 12. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) - Julla Schmidt
• 13. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) - Mertens, Klaus
• 14. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) - Mertens, Klaus
• 15. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) - Knut Schoch
• 16. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) - Elisabeth Scholl
• 17. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) - Ralf Popken
• 18. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) - Knut S
• 19. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) - Julla Schmidt
• 20. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) - Eli
• 21. Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) - Mert

Disc 3

• 1. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony - Mertens, Klaus
• 2. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) - Elisabeth Scholl
• 3. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) - Mertens, Klaus
• 4. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) - Knu
• 5. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) - Mertens, Klaus
• 6. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus) - Schwarz, Britta
• 7. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus) - Schwarz, Britta
• 8. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) - Annette Mark
• 9. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele) - Mertens, Klaus
• 10. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno) - Knut Schoch
• 11. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) - Julla Schmidt
• 12. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele) - Knut Schoch
• 13. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele) - Annette Markert
• 14. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) - Mertens, Klaus
• 15. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) - Knut Schoch
• 16. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) - Knut Schoch
• 17. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter) - Schwarz, Britta
• 18. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) - Knu
• 19. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) - Mertens, Klaus
• 20. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter) - Ralf Popken
• 21. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) - Julla Schmidt
• 22. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter) - Mertens, Klaus
• 23. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) - Annette Markert
• 24. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) - Schwarz, Britta
• 25. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) - Mertens, Klaus
• 26. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) - Julla Schmidt
• 27. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) - Ralf Popken
• 28. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas) - Mertens, Klaus
• 29. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) - Julla Sch
• 30. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony - Mertens, Klaus
• 31. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo) - Elisabeth Scholl
• 32. Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) - Elisabeth Scholl