Semele

George Frideric Handel; Joachim Carlos Martini, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Scholl, Schmidt, Popken, Schwarz, Markert, Schoch, Mertens · 2008 · Album

Tracklist

1. Act I: Overture
2. Act I: Gavotte
3. Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)
4. Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
5. Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)
6. Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele)
7. Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)
8. Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino)
9. Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
10. Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
11. Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
12. Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)
13. Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)
14. Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
15. Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas)
16. Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)
17. Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas)
18. Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)
19. Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)
20. Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)
21. Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
22. Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
23. Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)
24. Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs)
25. Act II: Symphony
26. Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)
27. Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)
28. Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris)
29. Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)
30. Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)
31. Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)
32. Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)
33. Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)
34. Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)
35. Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele)
36. Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
37. Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)
38. Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)
39. Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
40. Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)
41. Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter)
42. Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)
43. Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino)
44. Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele)
45. Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains)
46. Act III: Symphony
47. Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)
48. Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)
49. Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)
50. Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus)
51. Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus)
52. Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus)
53. Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele)
54. Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele)
55. Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno)
56. Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele)
57. Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele)
58. Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele)
59. Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno)
60. Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele)
61. Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele)
62. Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter)
63. Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele)
64. Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele)
65. Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter)
66. Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele)
67. Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter)
68. Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno)
69. Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele)
70. Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino)
71. Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests)
72. Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
73. Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas)
74. Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus)
75. Act III: Symphony
76. Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo)
77. Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus)