Name: Semele HWV 58 | George Frideric Handel | Leonardo García Alarcón, Ana Maria Labin, Matthew Newlin, Dara Savinova, Chiara Skerath, Lawrence Zazzo, Chœur de chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra (2021)
Duration: 2 h 50 min 20 s
Description: Listen to George Frideric Handel’s Semele HWV 58, performed by Leonardo García Alarcón, Ana Maria Labin, Matthew Newlin, Dara Savinova, Chiara Skerath, Lawrence Zazzo, Chœur de chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra. Discover and compare alternative recordings.

- Overture
  04:33
Act I
- 1. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise" (Priest)
  01:21
- 2. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Chorus of Priests)
  03:40
- 3. Recitativo "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)
  01:09
- 4. Accompagnato "Ah me! what refuge now is left me?" (Semele)
  01:06
- 5. Air "Oh Jove! in pity teach me" (Semele)
  02:07
- 6. Air "The morning lark to mine accords" (Semele)
  07:11
- 7. Recitativo "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)
  00:18
- 8. Air "Hymen, haste!" (Athamas)
  04:52
- 9. Recitativo "Alas! she yields" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  00:49
- 10. Air "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Semele, Ino, Athamas, Cadmus)
  02:32
- 11. Chorus "Avert these omens" (Chorus of Priests)
  01:54
- 12. Recitativo accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)
  00:43
- 13. Recitativo "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)
  00:19
- 14. Chorus "Cease, cease your vow's" (Chorus of Priests)
  00:38
- 15. Recitativo "O Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!" (Ino)
  00:27
- 16. Air "Turn, hopeless lover" (Ino)
  08:45
- 17. Recitativo "She weeps! the gentle maid in tender pity" (Athamas)
  00:34
- 18. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)
  05:24
- 19. Recitativo "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me!" (Ino, Athamas)
  00:55
- 20. Air "You've undone me, look not on me" (Ino, Athamas)
  02:24
- 21. Recitativo "Ah, wretched prince" (Cadmus, Athamas)
  00:40
- 22. Accompagnato "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" (Cadmus)
  01:08
- 23. Recitativo "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" (Athamas, Ino)
  00:11
- 24. Recitativo "See, see! Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come" (Cadmus)
  00:17
- 25. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
  01:35
- 26. Air "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele)
  02:53
- 27. Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
  02:09
Act II
- 1. Recitativo "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
  00:51
- 2. Air "There, from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)
  03:33
- 3. Recitativo "No more! I'll hear no more!" (Juno)
  00:06
- 4. Air "Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)
  02:04
- 5. Air "Hence, hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
  03:29
- 6. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
  03:06
- 7. Air "Come, Zephyrs, come" (Cupid)
  05:24
- 8. Recitativo "Let me not another moment" (Semele)
  00:24
- 9. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)
  03:10
- 10. Recitativo "You are mortal" (Jupiter)
  00:26
- 11. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele)
  03:10
- 12. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
  03:19
- 13. Recitativo "Ah me! Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter)
  01:26
- 14. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
  04:04
- 15. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
  02:20
- 16. Recitativo: By my command now ( Jupiter, Semele)
  01:30
- 17. Air "Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade" (Jupiter)
  04:26
- 18. Recitativo "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)
  00:50
- 19. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)
  02:04
- 20. Accompagnato and Air "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!" (Ino, Semele)
  01:53
- 21. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Chorus of Nymphs)
  02:52
Act III
- 1. Sinfonia. Larghetto e piano per tutto
  01:19
- 2. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake!" (Juno, Iris)
  00:27
- 3. Air "Leave me, loathsome light!" (Somnus)
  03:36
- 4. Recitativo "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)
  00:43
- 5. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
  02:06
- 6. Recitativo "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
  01:22
- 7. Air "Obey my will, thy rod resign" (Juno, Somnus)
  01:56
- 8. Recitativo "Thus shap'd like Ino, with ease I shall deceive her" (Juno, Semele)
  01:43
- 9. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno)
  02:52
- 10. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)
  07:05
- 11. Recitativo "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
  00:31
- 12. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
  01:16
- 13. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)
  02:45
- 14. Recitativo "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)
  00:30
- 15. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)
  03:41
- 16. Recitativo "O Semele! why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter)
  00:24
- 17. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood" (Jupiter)
  00:28
- 18. Recitativo "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter)
  00:14
- 19. Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)
  00:15
- 20. Air "Ah! take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)
  01:23
- 21. Air "No, no, I'll take no less" (Semele)
  06:43
- 22. Air "Ah, whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
  02:01
- 23. Air "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno)
  02:08
- 24. Air "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
  03:24
- 25. Recitativo "Of my illiboding dream" (Ino)
  00:19
- 26. Chorus "Oh terror and astonishment!" (Chorus of Priests)
  04:54
- 27. Recitativo "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
  00:58
- 28. Recitativo "See from above" (Cadmus)
  00:17
- 29. Accompagnato "Apollo comes" (Apollo)
  00:48
- 30. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus of Priests)
  03:11

Semele HWV 58

Act I

Act II

Act III