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Handel: Semele

Orchestra of Early Opera Company Orchestra, Christian Curnyn Conductor

CDs: 3 Tracks: 77 Length: 2:49:13		$24.99
Chandos Rel. 1 Jan 2007 Recorded 2007

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CD 1 of 3
George Frideric Handel Composer Semele, HWV58 Work 2:49:13 Stephen Wallace Countertenor, Rosemary Joshua Soprano, Richard Croft Tenor, Gail Pearson Soprano, Hilary Summers Contralto, Christian Curnyn Conductor, Chorus of Early Opera Company Chorus/Choir, Orchestra of Early Opera Company Orchestra, Brindley Sherratt Bass
1	No.1. Ouverture. [Part 1] -	2:32	$0.99
2	No.1. Ouverture. Allegro - Adagio -	3:41	$0.99
3	No.1. Ouverture. Gavotte	1:30	$0.99
4	Act 1. Scene 1. No.2. Behold! auspicious flashes rise!	1:23	$0.99
5	Act 1. Scene 1. No.3. Lucky omens bless our rites	3:15	$0.99
6	Act 1. Scene 1. No.4. Daughter, obey	0:55	$0.99
7	Act 1. Scene 1. No.5. Ah me! What refuge now is left me?	2:43	$0.99
8	Act 1. Scene 1. No.6. The morning lark to mine accords his note	7:25	$1.49
9	Act 1. Scene 1. No.7. See, she blushing turns her eyes	0:16	$0.99
10	Act 1. Scene 1. No.8. Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare	4:46	$0.99
11	Act 1. Scene 1. No.9. Alas! she yields	0:42	$0.99
12	Act 1. Scene 1. No.10. Why dost thou thus untimely grieve	3:02	$0.99
13	Act 1. Scene 1. No.11. Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!	2:00	$0.99
14	Act 1. Scene 1. No.12. Again auspicious flashes rise	0:38	$0.99
15	Act 1. Scene 1. No.13. Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamus implores	0:14	$0.99
16	Act 1. Scene 1. No.14. Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed	0:32	$0.99
17	Act 1. Scene 2. No.15. O Athamus, what tortures hast thou borne!	0:29	$0.99
18	Act 1. Scene 2. No.16. Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes	8:01	$1.49
19	Act 1. Scene 2. No.17. She weeps! The gentle maid, in tender pity	0:18	$0.99
20	Act 1. Scene 2. No.18. Your tuneful voice my tale would tell	3:50	$0.99
21	Act 1. Scene 2. No.19. Too well I see	0:43	$0.99
22	Act 1. Scene 2. No.20. You've undone me	2:26	$0.99
23	Act 1. Scene 3. No.21. Ah, wretched Prince, doom'd to disastrous love! - / Scene 4. See, see, Jove	2:08	$0.99
24	Act 1. Scene 4. No.22. Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King	1:30	$0.99
25	Act 1. Scene 4. No.23. Endless pleasure, endless love	4:50	$0.99

CD 2 of 3
1	Act 2. No.24. Sinfonia. Presto	1:34	$0.99
2	Act 2. Scene 1. No.25. Iris, impatient of thy stay	0:47	$0.99
3	Act 2. Scene 1. No.26. There, from mortal cares retiring	3:39	$0.99
4	Act 2. Scene 1. No.27. No more - I'll hear no more	2:04	$0.99
5	Act 2. Scene 1. No.28. Hence, Iris, hence away	3:50	$0.99
6	Act 2. Scene 2. No.30. O sleep, why dost thou leave me?	2:54	$0.99
7	Act 2. Scene 3. No.31. Let me not another moment	0:19	$0.99
8	Act 2. Scene 3. No.32. Lay your doubts and fears aside	3:06	$0.99
9	Act 2. Scene 3. No.33. You are mortal, and require	0:17	$0.99
10	Act 2. Scene 3. No.34. With fond desiring	3:21	$0.99
11	Act 2. Scene 3. No.35. How engaging, how endearing	3:04	$0.99
12	Act 2. Scene 3. No.36. Ah me! - / Why sighs my Semele?	1:07	$0.99
13	Act 2. Scene 3. No.37. I must with speed amuse her	3:56	$0.99
14	Act 2. Scene 3. No.38. Now Love that everlasting boy invites	2:21	$0.99
15	Act 2. Scene 3. No.39. By my command	1:03	$0.99
16	Act 2. Scene 3. No.40. Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade	4:56	$0.99
17	Act 2. Scene 4. No.41. Dear sister, how was your passage hither?	0:39	$0.99
18	Act 2. Scene 4. No.42. But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round	2:26	$0.99
19	Act 2. Scene 4. No.43. Prepare them, ye immortal choir	1:57	$0.99
20	Act 2. Scene 4. No.44. Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays	2:42	$0.99

CD 3 of 3
1	Act 3. No.45. (Sinfonia.) Larghetto e piano per tutto	1:28	$0.99
2	Act 3. Scene 1. No.46. Somnus, awake	0:31	$0.99
3	Act 3. Scene 1. No.47. Leave me, loathsome light	3:26	$0.99
4	Act 3. Scene 1. No.48. Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall	0:29	$0.99
5	Act 3. Scene 1. No.49. More sweet is that name	2:27	$0.99
6	Act 3. Scene 1. No.50. My will obey	1:14	$0.99
7	Act 3. Scene 1. No.51. Obey my will, thy rod resign	1:59	$0.99
8	Act 3. Scene 2. No.52. My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed	2:42	$0.99
9	Act 3. Scene 3. No.53. Thus shap'd like Ino	1:26	$0.99
10	Act 3. Scene 3. No.54. Myself I shall adore	7:16	$1.49
11	Act 3. Scene 3. No.55. Be wise, as you are beautiful	1:48	$0.99
12	Act 3. Scene 3. No.56. Thus let my thanks be paid	2:20	$0.99
13	Act 3. Scene 3. No.57. Rich odours fill the fragrant air	0:22	$0.99
14	Act 3. Scene 4. No.58. Come to my arms, my lovely fair	2:51	$0.99
15	Act 3. Scene 4. No.59. O Semele	0:06	$0.99
16	Act 3. Scene 4. No.60. I ever am granting	1:35	$0.99
17	Act 3. Scene 4. No.61. Speak, speak your desire	0:37	$0.99
18	Act 3. Scene 4. No.62. You'll grant what I require	0:10	$0.99
19	Act 3. Scene 4. No.63. Then cast off this human shape which you wear	0:16	$0.99
20	Act 3. Scene 4. No.64. Ah, take heed what you press	1:14	$0.99
21	Act 3. Scene 4. No.65. No, no! I'll take no less	5:12	$0.99
22	Act 3. Scene 5. No.66. Ah! whither is she gone! unhappy fair!	3:06	$0.99
23	Act 3. Scene 6. No.67. Above measure	2:22	$0.99
24	Act 3. Scene 7. No.68. Ah me! too late I now repent	3:07	$0.99
25	Act 3. Scene 8. No.69. Of my ill-boding dream	0:12	$0.99
26	Act 3. Scene 8. No.70. O terror and astonishment	4:00	$0.99
27	Act 3. Scene 8. No.71. How I was hence remov'd	0:41	$0.99
28	Act 3. Scene 8. No.72. Despair no more shall wound me	5:07	$0.99
29	Act 3. Scene 8. No.73. See from above the bellying clouds descend	0:14	$0.99
30	Act 3. Scene 9. No.74. Sinfonia.	1:19	$0.99
31	Act 3. Scene 9. No.75. Apollo comes to relieve your care	0:43	$0.99
32	Act 3. Scene 9. No.76. Happy, happy shall we be	3:02	$0.99

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Handel: Semele

George Frideric Handel Composer

Semele, HWV58 Work