Semele

by George Frideric Handel; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Semele: Overture7:17
  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)4:38
  4. Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Ah, me!" (Semele)3:52
  5. Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus)3:23
  6. Semele: Act I, Scene I. "Avert these omens" (Chorus of Priests)3:04
  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)0:56
  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)3:38
  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)4:45
  22. Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Too well I read her meaning" (Jupiter)4:15
  23. Semele: Act II, Scene III. "Now Love" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)2:27

CD 2

  1. Semele: Act II, Scene III. "By my command" (Jupiter)0:28
  2. Semele: Act II, Scene III. "See, she appears" (Jupiter)5:56
  3. Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" (Semele)2:53
  4. Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!" (Semele & Ino)1:57
  5. Semele: Act II, Scene IV. "Bless the glad earth" (Chorus)2:46
  6. Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno)2:25
  7. Semele: Act III, Scene I. "Leave me, loathsome light!" (Somnus)4:32
  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)2:52
  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)8:07
  13. Semele: Act III, Scene III. "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)1:21
  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)3:10
  17. Semele: Act III, Scene IV. "Ah, take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)1:13
  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)4:11
  23. Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)2:31
  24. Semele: Act III, Scene the last. "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)3:14