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Album

Handel, G.: Semele [Oratorio]

George Frideric HandelJoachim Carlos MartiniBarockorchester Frankfurt

2008 · album · 50 tracks

Tracks

  1. 1Overture5:09
  2. 2Gavotte2:23
  3. 3Accompagnato. Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)1:26
  4. 4Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)3:37
  5. 5Recitative and Arioso. Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)1:04
  6. 6Accompagnato and Aria. Ah me! What refuge now Is left me? (Semele)2:54
  7. 7Aria. The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)6:28
  8. 8Aria. See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino)3:56
  9. 9Recitative. Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)0:58
  10. 10Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)2:17
  11. 11Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)2:15
  12. 12Accompagnato. Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)0:48
  13. 13Recitative. Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)0:19
  14. 14Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)0:40
  15. 15Recitative. O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas)0:30
  16. 16Aria. Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)8:42
  17. 17Recitative. She weeps! (Athamas)0:27
  18. 18Aria. Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)3:53
  19. 19Recitative. Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)0:57
  20. 20Duet. You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)2:21
  21. 21Recitative and Accompagnato. Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)2:32
  22. 22Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)1:58
  23. 23Aria. Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)2:54
  24. 24Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs)1:46
  25. 1Symphony1:47
  26. 2Recitative. Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)1:05
  27. 3Aria. There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)2:59
  28. 4Recitative and Accompagnato. No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris)2:26
  29. 5Aria. Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)3:53
  30. 6Aria. Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)6:03
  31. 7Aria. O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)2:47
  32. 8Recitative. Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)0:22
  33. 9Aria. Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)3:07
  34. 10Recitative. You Are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)0:34
  35. 11Aria. With fond desiring (Semele)3:34
  36. 12How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)2:46
  37. 13Recitative. Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)1:36
  38. 14Aria. I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)4:04
  39. 15Now Love, That everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)2:32
  40. 16Recitative. By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)1:33
  41. 17Aria. Where'er you walk (Jupiter)3:28
  42. 18Recitative. Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)0:47
  43. 19Aria. But hark! (Ino)1:30
  44. 20Accompagnato and Arioso. Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele)2:06
  45. 21Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains)2:39
  46. 1Symphony1:51
  47. 2Accompagnato. Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)0:32
  48. 3Aria. Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)3:07
  49. 4Recitative. Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)0:35
  50. 5Aria. More sweet Is That name (Somnus)2:19