Handel: semele
(1993)
eMusic
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Deutsche Grammophon : Made available through hoopla, 1993
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 54 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
0028943578226 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10954185, 10954185
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Mode of access: World Wide Web
CONTENTS
Overture
(9:04) -- Behold! auspicious flashes arise
(1:26) -- Lucky omens bless our rites
(3:08) -- Daughter, obey
(0:58) -- Ah! me! - O Jove!
(2:44) -- The morning lark to mine accords his note
(7:05) -- See she blushing turns her eyes
(0:18) -- Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare
(4:38) -- Alas! she yields, and has undone me
(0:48) -- Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?
(2:45) -- Avert these omens
(2:00) -- Again auspicious flashes rise
(0:39) -- Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!
(0:17) -- Cease your vows
(0:36) -- O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!
(0:30) -- Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes
(8:26) -- She weeps!
(0:25) -- Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
(4:56) -- Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me
(0:47) -- You've undone me / With my life I would atone
(2:29) -- Ah, wretched prince / Wing'd with our fears /O prodigy/See, see, Jove's Priests
(2:07) -- Hail Cadmus!
(1:34) -- Endless pleasure...
(4:30) -- Overture
(1:31) -- Iris, impatient of thy stay
(0:46) -- There from mortal cares retiring
(3:27) -- No more - I'll hear no more! / Awake Saturnia..
(1:55) -- Hence, Iris, hence away
(3:23) -- Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
(3:10) -- Let me not another moment
(0:16) -- Lay your doubts and fears aside
(3:02) -- You are mortal and require time to rest
(0:23) -- With fond desiring
(2:54) -- How engaging, how endearing
(3:06) -- Ah me! why sighs my Semele!
(1:23) -- I must with speed amuse her
(3:44) -- Now Love that everlasting boy invites
(2:21) -- By my command
(1:18) -- Where'er you walk
(4:53) -- Dear Sister
(0:46) -- But hark! The Heavenly Sphere
(2:14) -- Prepare then, ye immortal choir
(2:02) -- Bless the glad earth
(2:43) -- Overture
(1:22) -- Somnus, awake
(0:31) -- Leave me, loathsome light
(3:07) -- Dull God
(0:40) -- More sweet is that name
(2:14) -- My will obey
(1:23) -- Obey my will / All I must grant
(1:53) -- My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed
(2:53) -- Thus shap'd like Ino
(1:14) -- Behold this mirror
(2:40) -- O ecstasy of happiness
(0:19) -- Myself I shall adore
(6:39) -- Be wise, as you are beautiful
(0:37) -- Conjure him by his oath
(1:28) -- Thus let my thanks be pay'd
(2:13) -- Rich odours fill the fragrant air
(0:32) -- Come to my arms
(2:58) -- O Semele! Why art thou....? / I ever am granting,..
(1:42) -- Speak what you desire
(0:15) -- By that tremendous flood, I swear
(0:27) -- You'll grant what I require? /Then cast off this human
(0:34) -- Ah, take heed
(1:11) -- No, no, I'll take no less
(5:14) -- Ah, whither is she gone?
(3:01) -- Above measure is the pleasure,which my revenge supplies
(2:22) -- Ah me, too late I now repent
(3:44) -- Of my ill-boding dream
(0:21) -- Oh, terror and astonishment
(3:56) -- How I was hence remov'd
(1:00) -- Despair no more shall wound me
(5:03) -- See from above the belling clouds descend
(0:17) -- Sinfonia: Apollo come
(1:29) -- Appolo comes, to relieve your care
(0:57) -- Happy shall we be
(2:56)