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George Frideric Handel: Semele
Artboard 2
ALBUM NAME
George Frideric Handel: Semele
Copyright
℗ 1993 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
RELEASE DATE
June, 1993
TRACK
77
DURATION
2:54:02
Album TRACKS
2
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!"
1:26
3
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Lucky omens bless our rites"
3:7
4
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative and Arioso: "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!"
57
5
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?"/Air: "O Jove! in pity teach me w
2:43
6
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "The morning lark to mine accords his note"
7:4
7
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "See, she blushing turns her eyes"
17
8
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare"
4:38
9
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Alas! she yields, and has undone me"
48
10
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Quartetto: "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"
2:44
11
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!"
1:59
12
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Again auspicious flashes rise"
38
13
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!"
17
14
 
 
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed"
36
15
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!"
29
16
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes"
8:25
17
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "She weeps!"
24
18
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"
4:55
19
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me"
47
20
 
 
Act 1. Scene 2, Duetto: "You've undone me"/"With my life I would atone"
2:28
21
 
 
Act 1. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah, wretched prince, domm'd to disastrous love!"/Accompagnato: "Wing'd
2:7
22
 
 
Act 1. Scene 4, Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, hail!"
1:34
23
 
 
Act 1. Scene 4, Air and Chorus: "Endless pleasure, endless love"
4:30
24
 
 
Act 2. Sinfonia
1:30
25
 
 
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "Iris, impatient of thy stay"
46
26
 
 
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "There from mortal cares retiring"
3:26
27
 
 
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "No more - I'll hear no more!"/Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia from thy l
1:55
28
 
 
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "Hence, Iris, hence away"
3:23
29
 
 
Act 2. Scene 2, Air: "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?"
3:9
30
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence"
16
31
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Lay your doubts and fears aside"
3:2
32
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "You are mortal and require time to rest"
23
33
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "With fond desiring"
2:53
34
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "How engaging, how endearing"
3:6
35
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah me!"/"Why sighs my Semele?"
1:23
36
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "I must with speed amuse her"
3:44
37
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "Now Love that everlasting boy invites"
2:21
38
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "By my command"
1:17
39
 
 
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Where'er you walk"
4:53
40
 
 
Act 2. Scene 4, Recitative: "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?"
46
41
 
 
Act 2. Scene 4, Air: "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round"
2:13
42
 
 
Act 2. Scene 4, Duetto: "Prepare then, ye immortal choir"
2:1
43
 
 
Act 2. Scene 4, Chorus: "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays"
2:43
44
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Larghetto e piano per tutto
1:21
45
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!"
31
46
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "Leave me, loathsome light"
3:7
47
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall"
40
48
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "More sweet is that name"
2:14
49
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "My will obey, she shall be thine"
1:22
50
 
 
Act 3. Scene 1, Duetto: "Obey my will"/"All I must grant"
1:52
51
 
 
Act 3. Scene 2, Air: "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed"
2:53
52
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Thus shap'd like Ino"
1:13
53
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Behold in this mirror"
2:40
54
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness"
19
55
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Myself I shall adore"
6:39
56
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Be wise, as you are beautiful"
37
57
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Accompagnato: "Conjure him by his oath"
1:27
58
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Thus let my thanks be paid"
2:13
59
 
 
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Rich odours fill the fragrant air"
31
60
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Come to my arms, my lovely fair"
2:57
61
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?"/Air: "I ever am granting, you
1:42
62
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "Speak, speak your desire"
14
63
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Accompagnato: "By that tremendous flood, I swear"
26
64
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "You'll grant what I require?"/Accompagnato: "Then cast off this human
33
65
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Ah, take heed what you press"
1:11
66
 
 
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "No, no! I'll take no less"
5:13
67
 
 
Act 3. Scene 5, Accompagnato: "Ah! whither is she gone!"
3:1
68
 
 
Act 3. Scene 6, Air: "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies"
2:21
69
 
 
Act 3. Scene 7, Accompagnato: "Ah me! too late I now repent"
3:44
70
 
 
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "Of my ill-boding dream"
21
71
 
 
Act 3. Scene 8, Chorus: "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
3:55
72
 
 
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "How I was hence remov'd"
59
73
 
 
Act 3. Scene 8, Air: "Despair no more shall wound me"
5:3
74
 
 
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "See from above the bellying clouds descend"
17
75
 
 
Act 3. Scene the last, Sinfonia
1:28
76
 
 
Act 3. Scene the last, Accompagnato: "Apollo comes, to relieve your care"
56
77
 
 
Act 3. Scene the last, Chorus: "Happy, happy shall we be"
2:56
 
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