Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) - Semele (3 CD)

1 Ouvertüre (1. Akt)
2 Gavotte
3 Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise
4 Chor: Lucky omens bless our rites
5 Rezitativ, Arioso und Duett: Daughter, obey
6 Rezitativ: Ah me!
7 Arie: O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose
8 Rezitativ: Alas! she yields
9 Quartett: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve
10 Chor: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs
11 Rezitativ: Again auspicious flashes rise - Rezitativ: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!
12 Chor: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed
13 Rezitativ: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes - Rezitativ: She weeps!
14 Arie: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
15 Rezitativ: Too well I see
16 Duett: You've undone me
17 Rezitativ: Ah! wrenched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! - Accompagnato: Wing'd with our fears and pious hate
18 Chor: Hail Cadmus, hail!
19 Arie und Chor: Endless pleasure, endless love
1 Sinfonia (2. Akt)
2 Rezitativ: Iris, impatient of thy stay
3 Arie: There, from mortal cares retiring - Rezitativ: No more, I'll hear no more
4 Accompagnato: Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy! - Rezitativ: Hear, mighty queen, while I recount - Accompagnato: ...
5 Arie: Hence, Iris, hence away
6 Arie: Come, zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings
7 Arie: O sleep, why dost thou leave me
8 Rezitativ: Let me not another moment
9 Arie: Lay your doubts and fears aside
10 Rezitativ: You are mortal and require
11 Arie: With fond desiring
12 Chor: How engaging, how endearing
13 Rezitativ: Ah, me! - Why sighs my Semele?
14 Arie: I must with speed amuse her
15 Chor: Now Love that everlasting boy invites
16 Rezitativ: By my command
17 Arie: Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade
18 Rezitativ: Dear sister, how was your passage hither?
19 Arie: But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round
20 Duett: Prepare then, ye immortal choir
21 Chor: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays
1 Sinfonia (3. Akt)
2 Accompagnato: Somnus, awake
3 Arie: Leave me, loathsome light
4 Rezitativ: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall
5 Arie: More sweet is that name
6 Rezitativ: My will obey
7 Duett: Obey my will, thy rod design
8 Arie: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed
9 Rezitativ: Thus shap'd like Ino
10 Arie: Myself I shall adore
11 Rezitativ: Be wise as you are beautiful - Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath
12 Arie: Thus let my thanks be paid
13 Rezitativ: Rich odours fill the fragrant air
14 Arie: Come to my arms, my lovely fair
15 Rezitativ: O Semele! - Arie: I ever am granting
16 Rezitativ: Speak, speak your desire - Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood, I swear - Rezitativ: You'll grant what I..
17 Arie: Ah, take heed what you press
18 Arie: No, no, I'll take no less
19 Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?
20 Arie: Above measure
21 Accompagnato: Ah me! Too late I now repent
22 Chor: O terror and astonishment!
23 Rezitativ: How I was hence remov'd'
24 Arie: Despair no more shall wound me
25 Rezitativ: See from above the bellying clouds descend
26 Sinfonia
27 Accompagnato: Apollo comes, to relieve your care
28 Chor: Happy, happy shall we be