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Semele

Libretto: William Congreve
Julian Perkins, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Burkhard (Baritone), Helen Charlston (Mezzo Soprano), Héloïse Bernard (Soprano), Bethany Horak-Hallett (Soprano), Christopher Foster (Bass), Jolyon Loy (Baritone), Jonathan Brown (Baritone), Anna Dennis (Soprano), Aoife Miskelly (Soprano), William Wallace (Tenor), Graeme Broadbent (Bass), Rory Carver (Tenor), James Rhoads (Tenor)
2019, London, Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb
90 Tracks, 2:01:24
    • Overture
      02:35

  • Act I

    • 1. Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise
      00:50
    • 2. Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
      00:53
    • 3. Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey
      00:29
    • 4. Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?
      02:47
    • 5. See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
      02:16
    • 6. Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
      01:35
    • 7. Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me
      01:18
    • 8. Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
      01:47
    • 9. Symphony (1)
      00:19
    • 10. Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (1)
      00:39
    • 11. Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (2)
      01:00
    • 12. Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
      01:16
    • 13. Symphony (2)
      00:11
    • 14. Cease Your Vows
      00:34
    • 15. O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born!
      00:54
    • 16. Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
      02:45
    • 17. She Weeps!
      00:21
    • 18. Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found
      01:05
    • 19. Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted!
      02:17
    • 20. You've Undone Me
      02:14
    • 21. Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!
      01:56
    • 22. See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come
      00:13
    • 23. Hail, Cadmus, Hail!
      01:40
    • 24. Endless Pleasure, Endless Love
      01:49
    • 25. Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare
      00:59
    • 26. Cease Your Mourning
      02:27

  • Act II

    • 1. Symphony
      01:02
    • 2. Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
      01:27
    • 3. There from Mortal Cares Retiring
      02:01
    • 4. Thither Flora the Fair
      02:49
    • 5. No More, I'll Hear No More
      01:21
    • 6. Not One of Curst Agenor's Race I'll Spare
      00:30
    • 7. Hear, Mighty Queen
      01:39
    • 8. See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight
      02:44
    • 9. Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
      01:25
    • 10. Dance of the Zephyrs
      00:56
    • 11. O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
      00:54
    • 12. Sleep Forsaking
      01:42
    • 13. Let Me Not Another Moment
      00:18
    • 14. Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside
      03:12
    • 15. Nor Was I Absent
      00:21
    • 16. If Cheerful Hopes
      01:27
    • 17. If This Be Love, Not You Alone
      01:34
    • 18. Ah Me!
      01:13
    • 19. With My Frailty Don't Upbraid Me
      02:26
    • 20. Thy Sex of Jove's the Masterpiece
      01:40
    • 21. Thy Needless Fears Remove
      01:20
    • 22. By My Command
      01:08
    • 23. Symphony
      01:45

  • Act III

    • 1. Symphony
      01:09
    • 2. Somnus, Awake
      00:39
    • 3. Leave Me, Loathsome Light
      02:57
    • 4. Dull God, Can'st Thou Attend the Waters Fall
      00:28
    • 5. Only Love on Sleep Has Pow'r
      02:17
    • 6. Somnus, Arise
      00:29
    • 7. More Sweet Is That Name
      02:01
    • 8. My Will Obey
      01:48
    • 9. Away Let Us Haste
      01:18
    • 10. I Love and Am Lov'd
      02:33
    • 11. Thus Shaped Like Ino
      01:03
    • 12. Behold in This Mirrour
      01:11
    • 13. O Ecstasy of Happiness!
      00:54
    • 14. Ah Charming All O'er!
      00:37
    • 15. Be Wise as You Are Beautiful
      00:23
    • 16. Unknowing Your Intent
      01:47
    • 17. But How Shall I Attain to Immortality?
      01:23
    • 18. Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid
      01:23
    • 19. Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
      00:37
    • 20. Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
      02:51
    • 21. Tho' 'Tis Easie to Please You
      00:57
    • 22. When I Languish with Anguish
      00:42
    • 23. I Dare Not
      00:45
    • 24. Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?
      00:15
    • 25. I Ever Am Granting
      00:32
    • 26. Speak, Speak Your Desire
      00:38
    • 27. Swear by the Stygian Lake
      00:26
    • 28. Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear
      01:31
    • 29. Ah! Take Heed What You Press
      01:39
    • 30. I'll Be Pleas'd with No Less
      00:36
    • 31. Ah! Whither Is She Gone!
      02:02
    • 32. Above Measure Is the Pleasure
      02:09
    • 33. Symphony (1)
      01:40
    • 34. Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent
      00:50
    • 35. Symphony (2)
      00:15
    • 36. Of My Ill-Boding Dream
      01:56
    • 37. Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care
      00:59
    • 38. From Tyrannous Love
      00:59
    • 39. Then Mortals Be Merry (1)
      00:59
    • 40. Then Mortals Be Merry (2)
      01:43