Album
Handel, G.: Semele [Oratorio]
George Frideric HandelJoachim Carlos MartiniBarockorchester Frankfurt
2008 · album · 50 tracks
Tracks
- 1Overture5:09
- 2Gavotte2:23
- 3Accompagnato. Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)1:26
- 4Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)3:37
- 5Recitative and Arioso. Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)1:04
- 6Accompagnato and Aria. Ah me! What refuge now Is left me? (Semele)2:54
- 7Aria. The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)6:28
- 8Aria. See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino)3:56
- 9Recitative. Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)0:58
- 10Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)2:17
- 11Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)2:15
- 12Accompagnato. Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)0:48
- 13Recitative. Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)0:19
- 14Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)0:40
- 15Recitative. O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas)0:30
- 16Aria. Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)8:42
- 17Recitative. She weeps! (Athamas)0:27
- 18Aria. Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)3:53
- 19Recitative. Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)0:57
- 20Duet. You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)2:21
- 21Recitative and Accompagnato. Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)2:32
- 22Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)1:58
- 23Aria. Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)2:54
- 24Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs)1:46
- 1Symphony1:47
- 2Recitative. Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)1:05
- 3Aria. There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)2:59
- 4Recitative and Accompagnato. No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris)2:26
- 5Aria. Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)3:53
- 6Aria. Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)6:03
- 7Aria. O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)2:47
- 8Recitative. Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)0:22
- 9Aria. Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)3:07
- 10Recitative. You Are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)0:34
- 11Aria. With fond desiring (Semele)3:34
- 12How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)2:46
- 13Recitative. Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)1:36
- 14Aria. I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)4:04
- 15Now Love, That everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)2:32
- 16Recitative. By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)1:33
- 17Aria. Where'er you walk (Jupiter)3:28
- 18Recitative. Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)0:47
- 19Aria. But hark! (Ino)1:30
- 20Accompagnato and Arioso. Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele)2:06
- 21Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains)2:39
- 1Symphony1:51
- 2Accompagnato. Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)0:32
- 3Aria. Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)3:07
- 4Recitative. Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)0:35
- 5Aria. More sweet Is That name (Somnus)2:19