Junge Kantorei

Semele

Featuring
Release date July, 2008

Tracklist

1
Act I: Overture
5:08
5:08
2
Act I: Gavotte
2:23
2:23
3
Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)
1:26
1:26
4
Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
3:37
3:37
5
Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)
1:03
1:03
6
Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele)
2:53
2:53
7
Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)
6:27
6:27
8
Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino)
3:55
3:55
9
Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
0:58
0:58
10
Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
2:17
2:17
11
Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
2:15
2:15
12
Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)
0:47
0:47
13
Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)
0:18
0:18
14
Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
0:39
0:39
15
Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas)
0:30
0:30
16
Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)
8:42
8:42
17
Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas)
0:27
0:27
18
Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)
3:52
3:52
19
Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)
0:56
0:56
20
Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)
2:21
2:21
21
Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
2:31
2:31
22
Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)
1:57
1:57
23
Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)
2:54
2:54
24
Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs)
1:46
1:46
25
Act II: Symphony
1:46
1:46
26
Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)
1:04
1:04
27
Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)
2:59
2:59
28
Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris)
2:25
2:25
29
Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)
3:53
3:53
30
Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)
6:02
6:02
31
Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)
2:47
2:47
32
Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)
0:22
0:22
33
Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)
3:06
3:06
34
Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)
0:33
0:33
35
Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele)
3:33
3:33
36
Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
2:45
2:45
37
Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)
1:35
1:35
38
Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)
4:03
4:03
39
Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)
2:32
2:32
40
Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)
1:33
1:33
41
Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter)
3:28
3:28
42
Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)
0:47
0:47
43
Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino)
1:30
1:30
44
Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele)
2:06
2:06
45
Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains)
2:39
2:39
46
Act III: Symphony
1:51
1:51
47
Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)
0:31
0:31
48
Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)
3:07
3:07
49
Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)
0:34
0:34
50
Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus)
2:19
2:19
51
Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus)
1:25
1:25
52
Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus)
1:59
1:59
53
Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele)
3:14
3:14
54
Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele)
1:08
1:08
55
Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno)
2:55
2:55
56
Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele)
0:12
0:12
57
Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele)
6:47
6:47
58
Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele)
0:30
0:30
59
Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno)
1:27
1:27
60
Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele)
2:18
2:18
61
Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele)
0:36
0:36
62
Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter)
3:02
3:02
63
Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele)
1:39
1:39
64
Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele)
1:19
1:19
65
Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter)
1:16
1:16
66
Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele)
5:27
5:27
67
Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter)
2:57
2:57
68
Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno)
2:40
2:40
69
Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele)
3:01
3:01
70
Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino)
0:17
0:17
71
Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests)
3:05
3:05
72
Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
0:52
0:52
73
Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas)
5:25
5:25
74
Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus)
0:19
0:19
75
Act III: Symphony
2:10
2:10
76
Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo)
1:05
1:05
77
Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus)
3:47
3:47