Title:	Semele
Genre:	Classical, Opera/Operetta
Composers:	George Frederick Handel
Conductors:	Christian Curnyn
Orchestras:	Orchestra of Early Opera Company
Performers:	Brindley Sherratt, Chorus of Early Opera Company, Gail Pearson, Hilary Summers, Richard Croft, Rosemary Joshua, Stephen Wallace
Label:	Chandos
Number of Discs:	3
Attributes:	Boxed Set
Release Date:	1/15/2008

Product Type:	CD
UPC:	095115074527
Item #:	NAX507452

Tracks

- Disc 1 -
1 No.1 Ouverture
2 Allegro - Adagio -
3 Gavotte
4 No.2 Cadmus: 'Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise!'
5 No.3 Chorus: 'Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites'
6 No.4 Cadmus: 'Daughter, Obey'
7 No.5 Semele: 'Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?'
8 No.6 Semele: 'The Morning Lark to Mine Accords His Note'
9 No.7 Athamus: 'See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes'
10 No.8 Athamus: 'Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare'
11 No.9 Ino: 'Alas! She Yields'
12 No.10 Cadmus: 'Why Does Thou Thus Untimely Grieve'
13 No.11 Chorus: 'Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!'
14 No.12 Cadmus: 'Again Auspicious Flashes Rise'
15 No.13 Athamus: 'Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamus Implores'
16 No.14 Chorus: 'Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious to Proceed'
17 No.15 Athamus: 'O Athamus, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!'
18 No.16 Ino: 'Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes'
19 No.17 Athamus: 'She Weeps! the Gentle Maid, in Tender Pity'
20 No.18 Athamus: 'Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell'
21 No.19 Ino: 'Too Well I See'
22 No.20 Ino: 'You've Undone Me'
23 Medley: No.21 Cadmus: 'Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!'/Cadmus: 'See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come'
24 No.22 Chorus: 'Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salues the Theban King!'
25 No.23 Semele: 'Endless Pleasure, Endless Love'
- Disc 2 -
1 No.24 Sinfonia - Presto
2 No.25 Juno: 'Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay'
3 No.26 Iris: 'There, from Mortal Cares Retiring'
4 No.27 Juno: 'No More - I'll Hear No More'
5 No.28 Juno: 'Hence, Iris, Hence Away'
6 No.30 Semele: 'O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?'
7 No.31 Semele: 'Let Me Not Another Moment'
8 No.32 Jupiter: 'Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside'
9 No.33 Jupiter: 'You Are Mortal, and Require'
10 No.34 Semele: 'With Fond Desiring'
11 No.35 Chorus: 'How Engaging, How Endearing'
12 Medley: No.36 Semele: 'Ah Me!'/Jupiter: 'Why Sighs My Semele?'
13 No.37 Jupiter: 'I Must with Speed Amuse Her'
14 No.38 Chorus: 'Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites'
15 No.39 Jupiter: 'By My Command'
16 No.40 Jupiter: 'Where'er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan the Glade'
17 No. 41 Semele: 'Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?'
18 No.42 Ino: 'But Hark! the Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round'
19 No.43 Ino and Semele: 'Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir'
20 No.44 Chorus: 'Bless the Glad Earth with Heav'nly Lays'
- Disc 3 -
1 No.45 [Sinfonia] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto
2 No.46 Juno: 'Somnus, Awake'
3 No.47 Somnus: 'Leave Me, Loathsome Light'
4 No.48 Iris: 'Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall'
5 No.49 Somnus: 'More Sweet Is That Name'
6 No.50 Juno: 'My Will Obey'
7 No.51 Juno: 'Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign'
8 No.52 Semele: 'My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed'
9 No.53 Juno: 'Thus Shap'd Like Ino'
10 No.54 Semele: 'Myself I Shall Adore'
11 No.55 Juno: 'Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful'
12 No.56 Semele: 'Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid'
13 No.57 Juno: 'Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air'
14 No.58 Jupiter: 'Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair'
15 No.59 Jupiter: 'O Semele'
16 No.60 Semele: 'I Ever Am Granting'
17 No.61 Jupiter: 'Speak, Speak Your Desire'
18 No.62 Semele: 'You'll Grant What I Require'
19 No.63 Semele: 'Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear'
20 No.64 Jupiter: 'Ah, Take Heed What You Press'
21 No.65 Semele: 'No, No! I'll Take No Less'
22 No.66 Jupiter: 'Ah! Whither Is She Gone! Unhappy Fair!'
23 No.67 Juno: 'Above Measure'
24 No.68 Semele: 'Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent'
25 No.69 Ino: 'Of My Ill-Boding Dream'
26 No.70 Chorus: 'O Terror and Astonishment!'
27 No.71 Ino: 'How I Was Hence Remov'd'
28 No.72 Athamus: 'Despair No More Shall Wound Me'
29 No.73 Cadmus: 'See from Above the Bellying Clouds Descend'
30 No.74 Sinfonia
31 No.75 Apollo: 'Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care'
32 No.76 All: 'Happy, Happy Shall We Be'

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