Handel, G.: Semele [Oratorio]

Joachim Carlos Martini

1 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Overture 5:08

2 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Gavotte 2:23

3 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) 1:26

4 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 3:37

5 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) 1:03

6 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) 2:53

7 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) 6:27

8 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) 3:55

9 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) 0:58

10 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) 2:17

11 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 2:15

12 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) 0:47

13 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) 0:18

14 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 0:39

15 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) 0:30

16 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) 8:41

17 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) 0:27

18 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) 3:52

19 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) 0:56

20 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) 2:21

21 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) 2:31

22 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 1:57

23 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) 2:54

24 Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) 1:46

1 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Symphony 1:46

2 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) 1:04

3 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) 2:59

4 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) 2:25

5 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) 3:53

6 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) 6:02

7 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) 2:47

8 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) 0:22

9 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) 3:06

10 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) 0:33

11 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) 3:33

12 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:45

13 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) 1:35

14 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) 4:03

15 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:32

16 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) 1:33

17 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) 3:28

18 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) 0:47

19 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) 1:30

20 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) 2:06

21 Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) 2:39

1 Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony 1:51

2 Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) 0:31

3 Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) 3:07

4 Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) 0:34

5 Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) 2:19