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No. |
Title |
Length |
| 1. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Overture – Gavotte |
6:52 |
| 2. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Accompagnato, "Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise" (featuring Craig Everingham) |
1:40 |
| 3. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Chorus, "Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites" (featuring Cantillation) |
2:37 |
| 4. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative and Arioso, "Daughter, Obey, Hear and Obey!" (featuring Stephen Bennett, Tobias Cole) |
1:08 |
| 5. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Accompagnato, "Ah Me, Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?" – Air: "O Jove! In Pity Teach Me Which to Choose" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
2:57 |
| 6. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes" (featuring Tobias Cole) |
0:20 |
| 7. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me!" (featuring Anna Ryberg, Tobias Cole) |
0:43 |
| 8. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Quartet, "Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve" (featuring Stephen Bennett, Sally - Anne Russell, Anna Ryberg, Tobias Cole) |
2:52 |
| 9. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Chorus, "Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!" (featuring Cantillation) |
1:53 |
| 10. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Accompagnato, "Again Auspicious Flashes Rise" (featuring Craig Everingham) |
0:39 |
| 11. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!" (featuring Anna Ryberg, Tobias Cole) |
0:17 |
| 12. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Chorus, "Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious to Proceed" (featuring Cantillation) |
0:32 |
| 13. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!" (featuring Tobias Cole) |
0:31 |
| 14. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Air, "Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes" (featuring Sally - Anne Russell) |
4:16 |
| 15. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "She Weeps!" (featuring Tobias Cole) |
0:25 |
| 16. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Air, "Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell" (featuring Tobias Cole) |
5:07 |
| 17. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me" (featuring Sally - Anne Russell, Tobias Cole) |
0:57 |
| 18. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Duet, "You've Undone Me" (featuring Sally - Anne Russell, Tobias Cole) |
2:24 |
| 19. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Recitative, "Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!" – Accompagnato, "Wing'd with Our Fears and Pious Haste" – Recitative, "Oh Prodigy, to Me of Dire Portent!" (featuring Stephen Bennett, Tobias Cole) |
1:51 |
| 20. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Air and Chorus, "Endless Pleasure, Endless Love" (featuring Cantillation, Anna Ryberg) |
4:27 |
| 21. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Sinfonia |
1:27 |
| 22. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay" (featuring Sally - Anne Russell, Belinda Montgomery) |
0:52 |
| 23. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "There, from Mortal Cares Retiring" (featuring Belinda Montgomery) |
3:56 |
| 24. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "No More! I'll Hear No More" (featuring Belinda Montgomery) |
1:49 |
| 25. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "Hence, Iris, Hence Away" |
3:11 |
| 26. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "Come, Zephyrs, Come" |
6:08 |
| 27. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
3:16 |
| 28. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "Let Me Not Another Moment Bear the Pangs of Absence" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:21 |
| 29. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside" |
3:10 |
| 30. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "You Are Mortal and Require Time to Rest" |
0:25 |
| 31. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "With Fond Desiring" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
3:21 |
| 32. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Chorus, "How Engaging, How Endearing" (featuring Cantillation) |
1:20 |
| 33. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "Ah Me!" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
1:19 |
| 34. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "I Must with Speed Amuse Her" |
3:35 |
| 35. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Chorus, "Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites" (featuring Cantillation) |
2:27 |
| 36. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "By My Command" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
1:05 |
| 37. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "Where'er You Walk" |
4:26 |
| 38. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Recitative, "Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:44 |
| 39. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Air, "But Hark, The Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round" |
2:05 |
| 40. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Duet, "Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir!" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
1:59 |
| 41. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Chorus, "Bless the Glad Earth with Heav'nly Lays" (featuring Cantillation) |
2:14 |
| 42. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Larghetto e piano per tutto |
1:16 |
| 43. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Accompagnato, "Somnus, Awake! Raise Thy Reclining Head!" (featuring Belinda Montgomery) |
0:27 |
| 44. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air "Leave Me, Loathsome Light" (featuring Stephen Bennett) |
3:27 |
| 45. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall" (featuring Belinda Montgomery) |
0:34 |
| 46. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "More Sweet Is That Name" (featuring Stephen Bennett) |
2:33 |
| 47. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "My Will Obey, She Shall Be Thine" (featuring Stephen Bennett) |
1:12 |
| 48. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Duet: "Obey My Will" (featuring Stephen Bennett) |
1:47 |
| 49. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "My Racking Thoughts by No Kind Slumbers Freed" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
3:10 |
| 50. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Thus Shap'd Like Ino" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
1:43 |
| 51. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "Myself I Shall Adore" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
6:41 |
| 52. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Be Wise, as You Are Beautiful" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
1:49 |
| 53. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
2:32 |
| 54. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:21 |
| 55. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair" |
3:46 |
| 56. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?" |
0:09 |
| 57. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "I Ever Am Granting, You Always Complain" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
2:03 |
| 58. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Speak, Speak Your Desire" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:42 |
| 59. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "You'll Grant What I Require?" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:13 |
| 60. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Accompagnato: "Then Cast Off This Human Shape" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
0:26 |
| 61. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "Ah! Take Heed What You Press!" |
1:17 |
| 62. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air: "No, No, I'll Take No Less" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
4:06 |
| 63. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Accompagnato: "Ah, Whither Is She Gone!" |
2:47 |
| 64. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Air, "Above Measure Is the Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies!" |
3:06 |
| 65. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Accompagnato, "Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent" (featuring Anna Ryberg) |
2:51 |
| 66. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "Of My Ill-boding Dream" |
0:13 |
| 67. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Chorus, "Oh, Terror and Astonishment!" (featuring Cantillation) |
3:45 |
| 68. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "How I Was Hence Remov'd" (featuring Stephen Bennett, Sally - Anne Russell, Tobias Cole) |
0:54 |
| 69. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Recitative, "See from Above the Bellying Clouds Descend" (featuring Stephen Bennett) |
0:13 |
| 70. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Sinfonia |
1:22 |
| 71. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Accompagnato, "Apollo Comes, to Relieve Your Care" (featuring Paul McMahon) |
0:48 |
| 72. |
Semele, HWV 58, Act III: Chorus, "Happy, Happy Shall We Be" (featuring Cantillation) |
2:26 |
