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Disc 01
 01. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Overture" 02. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Gavotte" 03. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest)" 04. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)" 05. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)" 06. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele)" 07. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)" 08. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino)" 09. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)" 10. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)" 11. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)" 12. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)" 13. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)" 14. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)" 15. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas)" 16. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)" 17. Ralf Popken "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas)" 18. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)" 19. Annette Markert "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)" 20. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)" 21. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, In" 22. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs)" 23. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)"
Disc 02
01. Ralf Popken "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Symphony" 02. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)" 03. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)" 04. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris)" 05. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno)" 06. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)" 07. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)" 08. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)" 09. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)" 10. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)" 11. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele)" 12. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)" 13. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter)" 14. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)" 15. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs)" 16. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele)" 17. Ralf Popken "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter)" 18. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)" 19. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino)" 20. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele)"
Disc 03
01. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony" 02. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris)" 03. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus)" 04. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)" 05. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus)" 06. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus)" 07. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus)" 08. Annette Markert "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele)" 09. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele)" 10. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno)" 11. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele)" 12. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele)" 13. Annette Markert "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele)" 14. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno)" 15. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele)" 16. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele)" 17. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter)" 18. Knut Schoch "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele)" 19. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele)" 20. Ralf Popken "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter)" 21. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele)" 22. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter)" 23. Annette Markert "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno)" 24. Schwarz, Britta "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele)"
25. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino)" 26. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests)" 27. Ralf Popken "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)" 28. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas)"
29. Julla Schmidt "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus)" 30. Mertens, Klaus "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Symphony" 31. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo)" 32. Elisabeth Scholl "Semele, HWV 58: Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus)"
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| | Description: | In Spring 2019, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, led by John Eliot Gardiner, presented a critically-acclaimed European tour of Handelâ??s opera
'Semele', including Alexandra Palace Theatre in London, where this live recording took place. Semele had not been performed by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi ensembles since they originally recorded it in the 1980s and this recording gives listeners the chance to hear a fuller version of the work. A glamorous team of young soloists joins the Monteverdi ensembles to bring the story of Semele to life, including celebrated English soprano Louise Alder, who takes on the title role, with the young tenor Hugo Hymas portraying the amorous Jupiter. - BAROQUE ORCHESTRA/MARTINIHandel' oratorio Semele was composed in 1743 and tells of a beautiful mortal, whose short but spectacular love affair with Jupiter. King of the Gods, comes to a terrifying end in consequence of both her own vanity and the scheming of Jupiter' insanely. | | | No. of tracks: |
74 |
| | Manufacturer No.: |
8570431-33 |
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