Handel
Semele (English Baroque Soloists feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)
1993

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Semele: Overture 7:18
2 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise" (Priest) 1:46
3 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Chorus) 4:39
4 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Ah, me!" (Semele) 3:53
5 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus) 3:24
6 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Avert these omens" (Chorus of Priests) 3:05
7 Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Cease, cease your vows" (Chorus of Priests) 0:33
8 Semele: Act I, Scene II. "Oh, Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas) 0:57
9 Semele: Act I, Scene II. "You've undone me" (Ino) 3:07
10 Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince" (Cadmus) 1:48
11 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "See, see!" (Cadmus) 2:06
12 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Semele) 2:51
13 Semele: Act I, Scene IV. "Endless pleasure" (Chorus) 1:46
14 Semele: Act II. Sinfonia / Scene I. "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno) 1:58
15 Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands" (Iris) 6:49
16 Semele: Act II, Scene I. "Hence, Iris, hence away!" (Juno) 3:39
17 Semele: Act II, Scene II. "Come, Zephyrs, come" (Cupid) 6:30
18 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Let me not another moment" (Semele) 3:26
19 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Lay your doubts" (Jupiter) 3:32
20 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "With fond desiring" (Semele) 3:28
21 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "How engaging" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 4:46
22 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Too well I read her meaning" (Jupiter) 4:16
23 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Now Love" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:28
Total time 78:05
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "By my command" (Jupiter) 0:28
2 Semele: Act II, Scene III. "See, she appears" (Jupiter) 5:57
3 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" (Semele) 2:54
4 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!" (Semele & Ino) 1:58
5 Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Bless the glad earth" (Chorus) 2:47
6 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno) 2:25
7 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Leave me, loathsome light!" (Somnus) 4:33
8 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "More sweet is that name" (Somnus) 4:14
9 Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Obey my will" (Juno) 2:17
10 Semele: Act III, Scene II. "My racking thoughts" (Semele) 2:53
11 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno) 1:38
12 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "O ecstasy of happiness!" (Semele) 8:08
13 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno) 1:22
14 Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" (Semele) 3:14
15 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Come to my arms" (Jupiter) 2:51
16 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "I ever am granting" (Semele) 3:11
17 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Ah, take heed what you press!" (Jupiter) 1:14
18 Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "No, no, I'll take no less" (Semele) 5:11
19 Semele: Act III, Scene V. "Ah, whither is she gone!" (Jupiter) 3:21
20 Semele: Act III, Scene VI. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno) 2:27
21 Semele: Act III, Scene VII. "Ah, me! too late I now repent" (Semele) 3:22
22 Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino) 4:12
23 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus) 2:32
24 Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus) 3:14
Total time 76:22



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