Semele by George Frideric Handel; Joachim Carlos Martini, Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Elisabeth Scholl, Julia Schmidt, Ralf Popken, Britta Schwarz, Annette Markert, Knut Schoch, Klaus Mertens 2008

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# Title Length
CD 1
1 Act I: Overture 5:08
2 Act I: Gavotte 2:23
3 Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) 1:26
4 Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 3:37
5 Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) 1:03
6 Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) 2:53
7 Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) 6:27
8 Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) 3:55
9 Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) 0:58
10 Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) 2:17
11 Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 2:15
12 Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) 0:47
13 Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) 0:18
14 Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 0:39
15 Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) 0:30
16 Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) 8:42
17 Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) 0:27
18 Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) 3:52
19 Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) 0:56
20 Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) 2:21
21 Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) 2:31
22 Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 1:57
23 Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) 2:54
24 Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) 1:46
CD 2
1 Act II: Symphony 1:46
2 Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) 1:04
3 Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) 2:59
4 Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) 2:25
5 Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) 3:53
6 Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) 6:02
7 Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) 2:47
8 Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) 0:22
9 Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) 3:06
10 Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) 0:33
11 Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) 3:33
12 Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:45
13 Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) 1:35
14 Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) 4:03
15 Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:32
16 Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) 1:33
17 Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) 3:28
18 Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) 0:47
19 Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) 1:30
20 Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) 2:06
21 Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) 2:39
CD 3
1 Act III: Symphony 1:51
2 Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) 0:31
3 Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) 3:07
4 Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) 0:34
5 Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) 2:19
6 Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus) 1:25
7 Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus) 1:59
8 Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) 3:14
9 Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele) 1:08
10 Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno) 2:55
11 Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) 0:12
12 Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele) 6:47
13 Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele) 0:30
14 Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) 1:27
15 Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) 2:18
16 Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) 0:36
17 Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter) 3:02
18 Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) 1:39
19 Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) 1:19
20 Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter) 1:16
21 Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) 5:27
22 Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter) 2:57
23 Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) 2:40
24 Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) 3:01
25 Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) 0:17
26 Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) 3:05
27 Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) 0:52
28 Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas) 5:25
29 Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) 0:19
30 Act III: Symphony 2:10
31 Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo) 1:05
32 Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) 3:47

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