John Eccles (1668-1735) - Semele (2 CD)

1 Ouvertüre: Largo - Allegro (aus Rinaldo und Armida von John Eccles)
2 Rezitativ: Behold auspicious flashes rise (1. Akt)
3 Arie: Lucky omens bless our rites (aus From this happy day von John Eccles)
4 Rezitativ: Daughter, obey, hear, and obey
5 Arie: Ah me! What refuge now is left me?
6 Arie: See, she blushing turns her eyes
7 Arie: Hymen haste, thy torch prepare
8 Rezitativ: Alas! She yields, and has undone me
9 Quartett: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?
10 Sinfonia
11 Rezitativ: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!
12 Trio: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!
13 Rezitativ: Again auspicious flashes rise
14 Sinfonia
15 Rezitativ: Cease your vows
16 Rezitativ: O Athamas, what torture hast thou born!
17 Arie: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes
18 Rezitativ: She weeps!
19 Arie: Such unavailing mercy is in beauty found
20 Rezitativ: Ah me, too much afflicted!
21 Duett: You've undone me
22 Rezitativ: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!
23 Rezitativ: See, see, Jove's priests and holy augurs come
24 Trio: Hail, Cadmus, hail!
25 Arie: Endless pleasure, endless love
26 Arie: Haste, haste, to sacrifice prepare
27 Chor: Cease your mourning!
28 Sinfonia (2. Akt)
29 Rezitativ: Iris, impatient of thy stay
30 Arie: There from mortal cares retiring
31 Arie: Thither Flora the Fair
32 Rezitativ: No more - I'll hear no more
33 Arie: Not one of curst Agenor's race I'll spare
34 Rezitativ: Hear, mighty queen
35 Arie: See, after the toils of an amorous fight
36 Arie: Come zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings
37 Arie: Dance of the zephyrs (aus A Sett of Aires made for the Queen's Coronation von John Eccles)
38 Arie: O sleep, why dost thou leave me?
39 Arie: Sleep forsaking
40 Rezitativ: Let me not another moment
41 Arie: Lay thy doubts and fears aside
42 Rezitativ: Nor was I absent
43 Arie: If cheerful hopes
44 Duett: If this be love, not you alone
45 Rezitativ: Ah me! - Why sighs my Semele?
46 Arie: With my frailty don't upbraid me
47 Rezitativ: Thy sex of Jove's the masterpiece
48 Arie: Thy needless fears remove
49 Rezitativ: By my command
50 Sinfonia (aus Rinaldo und Armida von John Eccles)
1 Sinfonia (3. Akt)
2 Rezitativ: Somnus, awake
3 Arie: Leave me, loathsome light
4 Rezitativ: Dull God, can'st thou attend the waters fall
5 Duett: Only love on sleep has pow'r
6 Rezitativ: Somnus, arise
7 Arie: More sweet is that name
8 Rezitativ: My will obey
9 Duett: Away let us haste
10 Arie: I love and am lov'd
11 Rezitativ: Thus shaped like Ino
12 Arie: Behold in this mirrour
13 Rezitativ: O ecstasy of happiness!
14 Arie: Ah charming all o'er!
15 Rezitativ: Be wise as you are beautiful
16 Arie: Unknowing your intent
17 Rezitativ: But how shall I attain to immortality?
18 Arie: Thus let my thanks be paid
19 Rezitativ: Rich odours fill the fragrant air
20 Arie: Come to my arms, my lovely fair
21 Arie: Tho' 'tis easie to please you
22 Arie: When I languish with anguish
23 Duett: I dare not - Ah fear not
24 Rezitativ: Oh Semele, why art thou thus insensible?
25 Arie: I ever am granting
26 Arie: Speak, speak your desire
27 Rezitativ: Swear by the stygian lake
28 Arie: Then cast off this human shape which you wear
29 Arie: Ah! take heed what you press
30 Arie: I'll be pleas'd with no less
31 Rezitativ und Arioso: Ah! Whither is she gone!
32 Arie: Above measure is the pleasure
33 Sinfonia
34 Rezitativ: Ah me! too late I now repent
35 Sinfonia
36 Rezitativ: Of my ill-boding dream
37 Arie: Apollo comes to relieve your care
38 Arie: From tyrannous love
39 Arie: Then mortals be merry
40 Chor: Then mortals be merry