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Semele HWV 58

Text: William Congreve
Antony Walker, Sirius Ensemble, Cantillation, Craig Everingham (Bass), Tobias Cole (Countertenor), Stephen Bennett (Bass), Anna Ryberg (Soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (Mezzo Soprano), Belinda Montgomery (Soprano), Shelli Gilhome (Soprano), Angus Wood (Tenor), Paul McMahon (Tenor)
2002 - 2002, Sydney, City Recital Hall Angel Place
Live
72 Tracks, 2:30:51
    • Overture
      06:53

  • Act I

    • Accompagnato 'Behold! auspicious flashes arise' (High Priest)
      01:40
    • 'Lucky omens bless our rites' (Chorus)
      02:37
    • Recitative and Arioso 'Daughter, obey!' (Cadmus, Athamas)
      01:08
    • Accompagnato 'Ah! me!' – Air 'O Jove!' (Semele)
      02:57
    • Air 'See she blushing turns her eyes' (Ino)
      00:20
    • Recitative 'Alas! she yields, and has undone me' (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
      00:44
    • Quartet 'Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?' (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
      02:52
    • 'Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!' (Chorus)
      01:54
    • Accompagnato 'Again auspicious flashes rise' (Cadmus)
      00:40
    • Recitative 'Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!' (Athamas, Semele)
      00:18
    • 'Cease your vows' (Chorus)
      00:32
    • Recitative 'O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!' (Athamas)
      00:32
    • Air 'Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes' (Ino)
      04:16
    • Recitative 'She weeps!' (Athamas)
      00:25
    • Air 'Your tuneful voice my tale would tell' (Athamas)
      05:08
    • Recitative 'Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me' (Ino, Athamas)
      00:57
    • Duet 'You've undone me' (Ino, Athamas)
      02:25
    • Recitative and Accompagnato 'Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!' (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
      01:52
    • Air 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Semele)
      04:28

  • Act II

    • Sinfonia
      01:28
    • Recitative 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' (Juno, Iris)
      00:52
    • There from mortal cares retiring
      03:57
    • Recitative and Accompagnato 'No more! I'll hear no more!' (Juno, Iris)
      01:49
    • Air 'Hence, Iris, hence away' (Juno)
      03:11
    • Air 'Come, Zephyrs, come' (Cupid)
      06:09
    • Air 'Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?' (Semele)
      03:16
    • Recitative 'Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence' (Semele)
      00:21
    • Air 'Lay your doubts and fears aside' (Jupiter)
      03:10
    • Recitative 'You are mortal and require time to rest' (Jupiter)
      00:25
    • Air 'With fond desiring' (Semele)
      03:21
    • 'How engaging, how endearing' (Chorus)
      01:20
    • Recitative 'Ah me! why sighs my Semele!' (Semele, Jupiter)
      01:19
    • Air 'I must with speed amuse her' (Jupiter)
      03:36
    • 'Now Love, that everlasting boy invites' (Chorus)
      02:28
    • Recitative 'By my command' (Jupiter, Semele)
      01:06
    • Air 'Where'er you walk' (Jupiter)
      04:27
    • Recitative 'Dear Sister, how was your passage hither?' (Semele, Ino)
      00:45
    • Air 'But hark! The heavenly sphere' (Ino)
      02:05
    • Duet 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir' (Ino, Semele)
      01:59
    • 'Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays' (Chorus)
      02:14

  • Act III

    • Sinfonia. Larghetto e piano per tutto
      01:16
    • Accompagnato 'Somnus, awake! Raise thy reclining head!' (Juno, Iris)
      00:28
    • Air 'Leave me, loathsome light' (Somnus)
      03:27
    • Recitative 'Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall' (Iris, Juno)
      00:35
    • Air 'More sweet is that name' (Somnus)
      02:33
    • Recitative 'My will obey, she shall be thine' (Juno, Somnus)
      01:12
    • Duet 'Obey my will' (Juno, Somnus)
      01:47
    • Air 'My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed' (Semele)
      03:11
    • Recitative 'Thus shap'd like Ino' (Juno, Semele)
      01:44
    • Air 'Myself I shall adore' (Semele)
      06:41
    • Recitative 'Be wise, as you are beautiful' (Juno, Semele)
      01:49
    • Accompagnato 'Thus let my thanks be pay'd' (Juno)
      02:33
    • Air 'Rich odours fill the fragrant air' (Juno, Semele)
      00:22
    • Air 'Come to my arms, my lovely fair' (Jupiter)
      03:47
    • Recitative 'O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?' (Jupiter, Semele)
      00:10
    • Air 'I ever am granting, you always complain' (Jupiter, Semele)
      02:03
    • Recitative 'Speak, Speak Your Desire' (Semele, Jupiter)
      00:42
    • Recitative 'You'll grant what I require?' (Semele, Jupiter)
      00:13
    • Accompagnato 'Then cast off this human shape' (Semele)
      00:27
    • Air 'Ah, take heed what you press!' (Jupiter)
      01:18
    • Air 'No, No, I'll take no less' (Semele)
      04:07
    • Accompagnato 'Ah, whither is she gone?' (Jupiter)
      02:48
    • Air 'Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies' (Juno)
      03:06
    • Arioso 'Ah me, too late I now repent' (Semele)
      02:52
    • Recitative 'Of my ill-boding dream' (Ino)
      00:14
    • 'Oh, terror and astonishment' (Chorus)
      03:45
    • Recitative 'How I was hence remov'd' (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
      00:54
    • Recitative 'See from above the belling clouds descend' (Cadmus)
      00:14
    • Sinfonia
      01:22
    • Accompagnato 'Apollo comes, to relieve your care' (Apollo)
      00:49
    • 'Happy shall we be' (Chorus)
      02:26