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Händel: Semele (Compl.) (3 CD)

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Semele, HWV 58 169:35
first complete recording on period instruments
A musical theatrical entertainment in three acts
Based on a libretto by William Congreve
Edited by Clifford Bartlett

COMPACT DISC ONE

1 No. 1. Ouverture. [ ] 2:32
2 Allegro - Adagio - 3:41
3 Gavotte 1:30

Act I
Scene 1
4 No. 2. Cadmus: 'Behold! auspicious flashes rise!' 1:23
5 No. 3. Chorus: 'Lucky omens bless our rites' 3:15
6 No. 4. Cadmus: 'Daughter, obey' 0:55
7 No. 5. Semele: 'Ah me! What refuge now is left me?' 2:43
8 No. 6. Semele: 'The morning lark to mine accords his note' 7:25
9 No. 7. Athamus: 'See, she blushing turns her eyes' 0:16
10 No. 8. Athamus: 'Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare' 4:46
11 No. 9. Ino: 'Alas! she yields' 0:42
12 No. 10. Cadmus: 'Why does thou thus untimely grieve' 3:02
13 No. 11. Chorus: 'Avert those omens, all ye pow'rs!' 2:00
14 No. 12. Cadmus: 'Again auspicious flashes rise' 0:38
15 No. 13. Athamus: 'Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamus implores' 0:14
16 No. 14. Chorus: 'Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed' 0:32

Scene 2
17 No. 15. Athamus: 'O Athamus, what torture hast thou borne!' 0:29
18 No. 16. Ino: 'Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes' 8:01
19 No. 17. Athamus: 'She weeps! The gentle maid, in tender pity' 0:18
20 No. 18. Athamus: 'Your tuneful voice my tale would tell' 3:50
21 No. 19. Ino: 'Too well I see' 0:43
22 No. 20. Ino: 'You've undone me' 2:26

Scene 3
23 No. 21. Cadmus: 'Ah, wretched Prince, doom'd to disastrous love!' - 2:08

Scene 4
Cadmus: 'See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come'
24 No. 22. Chorus: 'Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King' 1:30
25 No. 23. Semele: 'Endless pleasure, endless love' 4:50
59:57

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act II
1 No. 24. Sinfonia. Presto 1:34

Scene 1
2 No. 25. June: 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' 0:47
3 No. 26. Iris: 'There, from mortal cares retiring' 3:39
4 No. 27. Juno: 'No more - I'll hear no more' 2:04
5 No. 28. Juno: 'Hence, Iris, hence away' 3:50

Scene 2
6 No. 30. Semele: 'O sleep, why dost thou leave me?' 2:54

Scene 3
7 No. 31. Semele: 'Let me not another moment' 0:19
8 No. 32. Jupiter: 'Lay your doubts and fears aside' 3:06
9 No. 33. Jupiter: 'You are mortal, and require' 0:17
10 No. 34. Semele: 'With fond desiring' 3:21
11 No. 35. Chorus: 'How engaging, how endearing' 3:04
12 No. 36. Semele: 'Ah me!' - 1:07
Jupiter: 'Why sighs my Semele?'
13 No. 37. Jupiter: 'I must with speed amuse her' 3:56
14 No. 38. Chorus: 'Now Love that everlasting boy invites' 2:21
15 No. 39. Jupiter: 'By my command' 1:03
16 No. 40. Jupiter: 'Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade' 4:56

Scene 4
17 No. 41. Semele: 'Dear sister, how was your passage hither?' 0:39
18 No. 42. Ino: 'But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round' 2:26
19 No. 43. Ino and Semele: 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir' 1:57
20 No. 44. Chorus: 'Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays' 2:42
46:10

COMPACT DISC THREE

Act III
1 No. 45. [Sinfonia.] Larghetto e piano per tutto 1:28

Scene 1
2 No. 46. Juno: 'Somnus, awake' 0:31
3 No. 47. Somnus: 'Leave me, loathsome light' 3:26
4 No. 48. Iris: 'Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall' 0:29
5 No. 49. Somnus: 'More sweet is that name' 2:27
6 No. 50. Juno: 'My will obey' 1:14
7 No. 51. Juno: 'Obey my will, thy rod resign' 1:59

Scene 2
8 No. 52. Semele: 'My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed' 2:42

Scene 3
9 No. 53. Juno: 'Thus shap'd like Ino' 1:26
10 No. 54. Semele: 'Myself I shall adore' 7:16
11 No. 55. Juno: 'Be wise, as you are beautiful' 1:48
12 No. 56. Semele: 'Thus let my tanks be paid' 2:20
13 No. 57. Juno: 'Rich odours fill the fragrant air' 0:22

Scene 4
14 No. 58. Jupiter: 'Come to my arms, my lovely fair' 2:51
15 No. 59. Jupiter: 'O Semele' 0:06
16 No. 60. Semele: 'I ever am granting' 1:35
17 No. 61. Jupiter: 'Speak, speak your desire' 0:37
18 No. 62. Semele: 'You'll grant what I require' 0:10
19 No. 63. Semele: 'Then cast off this human shape which you wear' 0:16
20 No. 64. Jupiter: 'Ah, take heed what you press' 1:14
21 No. 65. Semele: 'No, no! I'll take no less' 5:12

Scene 5
22 No. 66. Jupiter: 'Ah! whither is she gone! unhappy fair!' 3:06

Scene 6
23 No. 67. Juno: 'Above measure' 2:22

Scene 7
24 No. 68. Semele: 'Ah me! too late I now repent' 3:07

Scene 8
25 No. 69. Ino: 'Of my ill-boding dream' 0:12
26 No. 70. Chorus: 'O terror and astonishment!' 4:00
27 No. 71. Ino: 'How I was hence remov'd' 0:41
28 No. 72. Athamus: 'Despair no more shall wound me' 5:07
29 No. 73. Cadmus: 'See from above the bellying clouds descend' 0:14

Scene 9
30 No. 74. Sinfonia. [ ] 1:19
31 No. 75. Apollo: 'Apollo comes to relieve your care' 0:43
32 No. 76. All: 'Happy, happy shall we be' 3:02
63:28

Mortals
Rosemary Joshua soprano - Semele
Hilary Summers contralto - Ino
Brindley Sherratt bass - Cadmus
Stephen Wallace counter-tenor - Athamus
Chorus of Early Opera Company Chorus of Priests and Augurs
Immortals
Richard Croft tenor - Jupiter
Hilary Summers contralto - Juno
Gail Pearson soprano - Iris
Brindley Sherratt bass - Somnus
Richard Croft tenor - Apollo
Chorus of Early Opera Company Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs; Chorus of Nymphs and Swains; Attendants
Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn
Recorded in:
All Saints Church, East Finchley, London
16-20 April 2007
Producer(s)
Nicholas Anderson
Sound Engineer(s)
Jonathan Cooper
Paul Quilter (Assistant)
Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24Bit 96Khz

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