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Semele HWV 58

Text: William Congreve
Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge Kantorei, Elisabeth Scholl (Soprano), Julla Schmidt (Soprano), Ralf Popken (Countertenor), Britta Schwarz (Alto), Annette Markert (Alto), Knut Schoch (Tenor), Klaus Mertens (Bass)
May 2007, Eltville am Rhein, Kloster Eberbach
77 Tracks, 3:01:21
    • Ouverture
      05:09
    • Gavotte
      02:23

  • Act I

    • No. 1 Accompagnato 'Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (High Priest)
      01:26
    • No. 2 'Lucky omens bless our rites' (Chorus)
      03:37
    • No. 3 Recitative and Arioso 'Daughter, obey, hear and obey!' (Cadmus, Athamas)
      01:04
    • No. 4 Accompagnato 'Ah me! What refuge now is left me?' – No. 5 Air 'Oh Jove!' (Semele)
      02:54
    • No. 6 Air 'The morning lark to mine accords his note' (Semele)
      06:28
    • Air 'See, she blushing turns her eyes' (Ino)
      03:56
    • Recitative 'Alas! She yields, and has undone me!' (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
      00:58
    • No. 8 Quartet 'Why dost thou thus untimely grieve' (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
      02:18
    • No. 9 'Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!' (Chorus of Priests)
      02:15
    • No. 10 Accompagnato 'Again auspicious flashes rise' (Cadmus)
      00:48
    • Recitative 'Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!' (Athamas, Semele)
      00:19
    • No. 11 'Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed' (Chorus of Priests)
      00:40
    • Recitative 'O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!' (Athamas)
      00:30
    • No. 12 Air 'Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye' (Ino)
      08:42
    • Recitative 'She weeps!' (Athamas)
      00:27
    • No. 13 Air 'Your tuneful voice my tale would tell' (Athamas)
      03:53
    • Recitative 'Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me' (Ino, Athamas)
      00:57
    • No. 14 Duet 'You've undone me' (Ino, Athamas)
      02:21
    • No. 15 Recitative and Accompagnato 'Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!' (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
      02:32
    • No. 16 'Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King' (Chorus)
      01:58
    • No. 17 Air 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Semele)
      02:54
    • No. 18 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Chorus)
      01:46

  • Act II

    • Sinfonia
      01:47
    • Recitative 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' (Juno, Iris)
      01:05
    • No. 20 Air 'There, from mortal cares retiring' (Iris)
      02:59
    • No. 21 Recitative and Accompagnato 'No more, I'll hear no more!' (Juno, Iris)
      02:26
    • No. 22 Air 'Hence, Iris, hence away!' (Juno)
      03:53
    • Air 'Come, Zephyrs, come' (Cupid)
      06:03
    • No. 23 Air 'O sleep, why dost thou leave me?' (Semele)
      02:47
    • Recitative 'Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence' (Semele)
      00:22
    • No. 24 Air 'Lay your doubts and fears aside' (Jupiter)
      03:07
    • Recitative 'You are mortal and require time to rest' (Jupiter)
      00:34
    • No. 25 Air 'With fond desiring' (Semele)
      03:34
    • No. 26 'How engaging, how endearing' (Chorus)
      02:46
    • Recitative 'Ah me!' (Semele, Jupiter)
      01:36
    • No. 27 Air 'I must with speed amuse her' (Jupiter)
      04:04
    • No. 28 'Now Love, that everlasting boy' (Chorus)
      02:32
    • Recitative 'By my command now' (Jupiter, Semele)
      01:33
    • No. 29 Air 'Where'er you walk' (Jupiter)
      03:29
    • Recitative 'Dear sister, how was your passage hither?' (Semele, Ino)
      00:47
    • No. 30 Air 'But hark!' (Ino)
      01:30
    • No. 31 Duet 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir' (Ino, Semele)
      02:06
    • No. 32 'Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays' (Chorus)
      02:39

  • Act III

    • Sinfonia
      01:51
    • No. 34 Accompagnato 'Somnus, awake!' (Juno, Iris)
      00:32
    • No. 35 Air 'Leave me, loathsome light!' (Somnus)
      03:07
    • Recitative 'Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall' (Iris, Juno)
      00:35
    • No. 36 Air 'More sweet is that name' (Somnus)
      02:19
    • Recitative 'My will obey' (Juno, Somnus)
      01:26
    • No. 37 Duet 'Obey my will' (Juno, Somnus)
      01:59
    • No. 38 Air 'My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed' (Semele)
      03:15
    • Recitative 'Thus shap'd like Ino' (Juno, Semele)
      01:08
    • Recitative 'Behold in this mirror' (Juno)
      02:56
    • Recitative 'O ecstasy of happiness!' (Semele)
      00:13
    • No. 39 Air 'Myself I shall adore' (Semele)
      06:47
    • Recitative 'Be wise, as you are beautiful' (Juno, Semele)
      00:30
    • No. 40 Accompagnato 'Conjure him by his oath' (Juno)
      01:27
    • No. 41 Air 'Thus let my thanks be pay'd' (Semele)
      02:18
    • Recitative 'Rich odours fill the fragrant air' (Juno, Semele)
      00:36
    • No. 42 Air 'Come to my arms, my lovely fair' (Jupiter)
      03:02
    • No. 43 Recitative 'O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?' – Air 'I ever am granting' (Jupiter, Semele)
      01:39
    • No. 44 Accompagnato 'By that tremendous flood' – No. 45 Accompagnato 'Then cast off' (Jupiter, Semele)
      01:20
    • No. 46 Air 'Ah! Take heed what you press!' (Jupiter)
      01:16
    • No. 47 Air 'No, no, I'll take no less' (Semele)
      05:28
    • No. 48 Accompagnato 'Ah, whither is she gone!' (Jupiter)
      02:57
    • No. 49 Air 'Above measure is the pleasure' (Juno)
      02:40
    • No. 50 Arioso 'Ah me! Too late I now repent' (Semele)
      03:02
    • Recitative 'Of my ill-boding dream' (Ino)
      00:18
    • No. 51 'Oh, terror and astonishment!' (Chorus)
      03:05
    • Recitative 'How I was hence remov'd' (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
      00:53
    • No. 52 Air 'Despair no more shall wound me' (Athamas)
      05:25
    • Recitative 'See from above the bellying clouds descend' (Cadmus)
      00:19
    • Sinfonia
      02:10
    • No. 54 Recitative 'Apollo comes, to relieve your care' (Apollo)
      01:06
    • No. 55 'Happy, happy shall we be' (Chorus of Priests)
      03:48