No. |
Title |
Length |
1. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Overture |
5:08 |
2. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Gavotte |
2:23 |
3. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise (Chief Priest) |
1:26 |
4. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
3:37 |
5. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, Obey, Hear and Obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) |
1:03 |
6. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me? (Semele) |
2:53 |
7. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: The Morning Lark to Mine Accords His Note (Semele) |
6:27 |
8. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes (Ino) |
3:55 |
9. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) |
0:58 |
10. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Quartet: Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) |
2:17 |
11. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
2:15 |
12. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Again Auspicious Flashes Rise (Cadmus) |
0:47 |
13. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores! (Athamas, Semele) |
0:18 |
14. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'tis Impious to Proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
0:39 |
15. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Borne! (Athamas) |
0:30 |
16. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eye (Ino) |
8:41 |
17. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: She Weeps! (Athamas) |
0:27 |
18. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell (Athamas) |
3:52 |
19. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me (Ino, Athamas) |
0:56 |
20. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Duet: You've Undone Me (Ino, Athamas) |
2:21 |
21. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) |
2:31 |
22. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
1:57 |
23. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (Semele) |
2:54 |
24. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) |
1:46 |
25. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Symphony |
1:46 |
26. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay (Juno, Iris) |
1:04 |
27. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: There, from Mortal Cares Retiring (Iris) |
2:59 |
28. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No More, I'll Hear No More! (Juno, Iris) |
2:25 |
29. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, Hence Away! (Juno) |
3:52 |
30. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, Come (Cupid) |
6:02 |
31. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (Semele) |
2:47 |
32. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Let Me Not Another Moment Bear the Pangs of Absence (Semele) |
0:22 |
33. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside (Jupiter) |
3:06 |
34. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: You Are Mortal and Require Time to Rest (Jupiter) |
0:33 |
35. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: With Fond Desiring (Semele) |
3:33 |
36. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: How Engaging, How Endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) |
2:45 |
37. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Ah Me! (Semele, Jupiter) |
1:35 |
38. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: I Must With Speed Amuse Her (Jupiter) |
4:03 |
39. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Now Love, That Everlasting Boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) |
2:32 |
40. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: By My Command Now (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:32 |
41. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Where'er You Walk (Jupiter) |
3:28 |
42. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither? (Semele, Ino) |
0:47 |
43. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: But Hark! (Ino) |
1:30 |
44. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir (Ino, Semele) |
2:06 |
45. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Bless the Glad Earth With Heav'nly Lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) |
2:39 |
46. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony |
1:51 |
47. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, Awake! (Juno, Iris) |
0:31 |
48. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Leave Me, Loathsome Light! (Somnus) |
3:07 |
49. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall (Iris, Juno) |
0:34 |
50. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: More Sweet Is That Name (Somnus) |
2:19 |
51. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: My Will Obey (Juno, Somnus) |
1:25 |
52. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Duet: Obey My Will (Juno, Somnus) |
1:58 |
53. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed (Semele) |
3:14 |
54. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Thus Shap'd Like Ino (Juno, Semele) |
1:08 |
55. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Behold In This Mirror (Juno) |
2:55 |
56. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O Ecstasy of Happiness! (Semele) |
0:12 |
57. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Myself I Shall Adore (Semele) |
6:46 |
58. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful (Juno, Semele) |
0:30 |
59. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure Him By His Oath (Juno) |
1:27 |
60. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd (Semele) |
2:18 |
61. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air (Juno, Semele) |
0:36 |
62. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair (Jupiter) |
3:02 |
63. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:39 |
64. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Speak, Speak Your Desire (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:19 |
65. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Ah! Take Heed What You Press! (Jupiter) |
1:16 |
66. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: No, No, I'll Take No Less (Semele) |
5:27 |
67. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah, Whither Is She Gone! (Jupiter) |
2:57 |
68. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Above Measure Is the Pleasure (Juno) |
2:40 |
69. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent (Semele) |
3:01 |
70. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Of My Ill-boding Dream (Ino) |
0:17 |
71. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Chorus: Oh, Terror and Astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) |
3:05 |
72. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: How I Was Hence Remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) |
0:52 |
73. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Despair No More Shall Wound Me (Athamas) |
5:25 |
74. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: See from Above the Bellying Clouds Descend (Cadmus) |
0:19 |
75. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony |
2:10 |
76. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Apollo Comes, to Relieve Your Care (Apollo) |
1:05 |
77. |
Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Happy, Happy Shall We Be (Chorus) |
3:47 |