Semele
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Disc 1
Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise
Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Daughter, Obey
Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act I. Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" (Semele)
Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Alas! She Yields
Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve
Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs
Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious to Proceed
Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 2: Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act I. "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"
Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 2: Too Well I See
Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 2: You've Undone Me
Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 4: Hail Cadmus, Hail!
Disc 2
Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 1: Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 1: There, from Mortal Cares Retiring
Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act II, no. 34. "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 2: Come, Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act II, no. 35. "Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Let Me Not Another Moment
Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside
Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: You Are Mortal and Require
Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act II. Air: "With fond desiring" (Semele)
Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: How Engaging, How Endearing
Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Ah, Me!
Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: I Must with Speed Amuse Her
Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act II, no. 43. "Now Love that everlasting boy"
Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: By My Command
Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act II, no. 45. “Where’er You Walk” (Jupiter)
Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 4: Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?
Disc 3
Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Somnus, Awake
Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Leave Me, Loathsome Light
Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall
Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: More Sweet is That Name
Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: My Will Obey
Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign
Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 2: My Racking Thoughts by No Kind Slumbers Freed
Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Thus Shap'd Like Ino
Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act II, no. 34. "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act III. Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)
Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act III. Air "Myself I shall adore"
Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Be Wise As You Are Beautiful
Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act III. Air: "Thus let my thanks de paid" (Semele)
Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: O Semele!
Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: Speak, Speak Your Desire
Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: Ah, Take Heed What You Press
Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act III. Air: "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)
Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 5: Ah, Whither Is She Gone, Unhappy Fair?
Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 6: Above Measure
Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, oratorio, HWV 58: Act III. "Ah me! Too late I now repeat" (Semele)
Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 8: O Terror and Astonishment!
Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 8: How I Was Hence Remov'd
Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58: Act III. "Despair no more shall wound me"
Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus)
George Frideric Handel - Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 8: See from Above the Bellying Clouds Descend