Handel: semele
(1993)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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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)

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