John Nelson
ARTIST MUSICS
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Lucky omens bless our rites"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Lucky omens bless our rites"
3:7
2
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative and Arioso: "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative and Arioso: "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!"
57
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?"/Air: "O Jove! in pity teach me w
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?"/Air: "O Jove! in pity teach me w
2:43
4
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "The morning lark to mine accords his note"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "The morning lark to mine accords his note"
7:4
5
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "See, she blushing turns her eyes"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "See, she blushing turns her eyes"
17
6
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Air: "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare"
4:38
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Alas! she yields, and has undone me"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Alas! she yields, and has undone me"
48
8
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Quartetto: "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Quartetto: "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"
2:44
9
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!"
1:59
10
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Again auspicious flashes rise"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Again auspicious flashes rise"
38
11
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Recitative: "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!"
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12
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 1, Chorus: "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed"
36
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!"
29
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes"
8:25
15
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "She weeps!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "She weeps!"
24
16
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Air: "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"
4:55
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Recitative: "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me"
47
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Duetto: "You've undone me"/"With my life I would atone"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 2, Duetto: "You've undone me"/"With my life I would atone"
2:28
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah, wretched prince, domm'd to disastrous love!"/Accompagnato: "Wing'd
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah, wretched prince, domm'd to disastrous love!"/Accompagnato: "Wing'd
2:7
20
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 4, Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, hail!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 4, Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, hail!"
1:34
21
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 4, Air and Chorus: "Endless pleasure, endless love"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 1. Scene 4, Air and Chorus: "Endless pleasure, endless love"
4:30
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "Iris, impatient of thy stay"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "Iris, impatient of thy stay"
46
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "There from mortal cares retiring"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "There from mortal cares retiring"
3:26
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "No more - I'll hear no more!"/Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia from thy l
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Recitative: "No more - I'll hear no more!"/Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia from thy l
1:55
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "Hence, Iris, hence away"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 1, Air: "Hence, Iris, hence away"
3:23
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 2, Air: "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 2, Air: "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?"
3:9
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence"
16
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Lay your doubts and fears aside"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Lay your doubts and fears aside"
3:2
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "You are mortal and require time to rest"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "You are mortal and require time to rest"
23
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "With fond desiring"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "With fond desiring"
2:53
32
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "How engaging, how endearing"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "How engaging, how endearing"
3:6
33
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah me!"/"Why sighs my Semele?"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "Ah me!"/"Why sighs my Semele?"
1:23
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "I must with speed amuse her"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "I must with speed amuse her"
3:44
35
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "Now Love that everlasting boy invites"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Chorus: "Now Love that everlasting boy invites"
2:21
36
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "By my command"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Recitative: "By my command"
1:17
37
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Where'er you walk"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 3, Air: "Where'er you walk"
4:53
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Recitative: "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Recitative: "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?"
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Air: "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Air: "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round"
2:13
40
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Duetto: "Prepare then, ye immortal choir"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Duetto: "Prepare then, ye immortal choir"
2:1
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Chorus: "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 2. Scene 4, Chorus: "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays"
2:43
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Larghetto e piano per tutto
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Larghetto e piano per tutto
1:21
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Accompagnato: "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!"
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "Leave me, loathsome light"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "Leave me, loathsome light"
3:7
45
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall"
40
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "More sweet is that name"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Air: "More sweet is that name"
2:14
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "My will obey, she shall be thine"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Recitative: "My will obey, she shall be thine"
1:22
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Duetto: "Obey my will"/"All I must grant"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 1, Duetto: "Obey my will"/"All I must grant"
1:52
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 2, Air: "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 2, Air: "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed"
2:53
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Thus shap'd like Ino"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Thus shap'd like Ino"
1:13
51
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Behold in this mirror"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Behold in this mirror"
2:40
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness"
19
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Myself I shall adore"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Myself I shall adore"
6:39
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Be wise, as you are beautiful"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Be wise, as you are beautiful"
37
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Accompagnato: "Conjure him by his oath"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Accompagnato: "Conjure him by his oath"
1:27
56
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Thus let my thanks be paid"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Air: "Thus let my thanks be paid"
2:13
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Rich odours fill the fragrant air"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 3, Recitative: "Rich odours fill the fragrant air"
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Come to my arms, my lovely fair"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Come to my arms, my lovely fair"
2:57
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?"/Air: "I ever am granting, you
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?"/Air: "I ever am granting, you
1:42
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "Speak, speak your desire"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "Speak, speak your desire"
14
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Accompagnato: "By that tremendous flood, I swear"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Accompagnato: "By that tremendous flood, I swear"
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "You'll grant what I require?"/Accompagnato: "Then cast off this human
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Recitative: "You'll grant what I require?"/Accompagnato: "Then cast off this human
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Ah, take heed what you press"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "Ah, take heed what you press"
1:11
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "No, no! I'll take no less"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 4, Air: "No, no! I'll take no less"
5:13
65
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 5, Accompagnato: "Ah! whither is she gone!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 5, Accompagnato: "Ah! whither is she gone!"
3:1
66
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 6, Air: "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 6, Air: "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies"
2:21
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 7, Accompagnato: "Ah me! too late I now repent"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 7, Accompagnato: "Ah me! too late I now repent"
3:44
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "Of my ill-boding dream"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "Of my ill-boding dream"
21
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Chorus: "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Chorus: "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
3:55
70
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "How I was hence remov'd"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "How I was hence remov'd"
59
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Air: "Despair no more shall wound me"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Air: "Despair no more shall wound me"
5:3
72
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "See from above the bellying clouds descend"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene 8, Recitative: "See from above the bellying clouds descend"
17
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Sinfonia
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Sinfonia
1:28
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Accompagnato: "Apollo comes, to relieve your care"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Accompagnato: "Apollo comes, to relieve your care"
56
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Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Chorus: "Happy, happy shall we be"
Semele, HWV 58
Act 3. Scene the last, Chorus: "Happy, happy shall we be"
2:56
76
23:22
77
Irish Fantasy (5)
1. The Hosting of the Sidhe
Irish Fantasies (5)
1. The Hosting of the Sidhe
2:23
81
Irish Fantasy (5)
5. The Song of Caitilin Ni Uallachain
Irish Fantasies (5)
5. The Song of Caitilin Ni Uallachain
7:29
82
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 1
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 1
7:7
83
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 2
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 2
6:27
84
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 3
Symphony No. 1 Three Movements for Orchestra
Movement 3
4:8
85
12:16
86
8:24
88
3:37
89
1:29
90
1:18
91
4:46
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On the banks of the Tebro
(Recitativo) Su Le Sponde Tebro
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Recitativo) Su Le Sponde Tebro
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On the banks of the Tebro
(Sinfonia) Contentatevi O Fidi Pensieri
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Sinfonia) Contentatevi O Fidi Pensieri
2:53
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On the banks of the Tebro
Recitativo) Mesto Stanco E Spirante Dal Duol' Che l'Opprimea
Su le sponde del Tebro
Recitativo) Mesto Stanco E Spirante Dal Duol' Che l'Opprimea
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On the banks of the Tebro
(Largo) Infelici Miei Lumi
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Largo) Infelici Miei Lumi
2:9
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On the banks of the Tebro
(Aria) Dite Almeno Astri Crudeli
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Aria) Dite Almeno Astri Crudeli
2:38
98
On the banks of the Tebro
(Recitativo) All' Aura Al Cielo Ai Venti
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Recitativo) All' Aura Al Cielo Ai Venti
1:4
99
On the banks of the Tebro
(Aria) Tralascia Pur Di Pia
Su le sponde del Tebro
(Aria) Tralascia Pur Di Pia
2:51
100
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Divine), HWV 74
Eternal Source of Light Divine
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Divine), HWV 74
Eternal Source of Light Divine
2:53