Semele - CD

1-1 - No. 1. Ouverture. [ ] – 2:32min
1-2 - Allegro – Adagio – 3:41min
1-3 - Gavotte 1:30min
- Act I
- Scene 1
1-4 - No. 2. Cadmus: ‘Behold! Auspicious Fl Ashes Rise!’ 1:23min
1-5 - No. 3. Chorus: ‘Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites’ 3:15min
1-6 - No. 4. Cadmus: ‘Daughter, Obey’ 0:55min
1-7 - No. 5. Semele: ‘Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?’ 2:43min
1-8 - No. 6. Semele: ‘The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note’ 7:25min
1-9 - No. 7. Athamus: ‘See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes’ 0:16min
1-10 - No. 8. Athamus: ‘Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare’ 4:46min
1-11 - No. 9. Ino: ‘Alas! She Yields’ 0:42min
1-12 - No. 10. Cadmus: ‘Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve’ 3:02min
1-13 - No. 11. Chorus: ‘Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow’rs!’ 2:00min
1-14 - No. 12. Cadmus: ‘Again Auspicious Fl Ashes Rise’ 0:38min
1-15 - No. 13. Athamus: ‘Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamus Implores’ 0:14min
1-16 - No. 14. Chorus: ‘Cease, Cease Your Vows, ’tis Impious To Proceed’ 0:32min
- Scene 2
1-17 - No. 15. Athamus: ‘O Athamus, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!’ 0:29min
1-18 - No. 16. Ino: ‘Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes’ 8:01min
1-19 - No. 17. Athamus: ‘She Weeps! The Gentle Maid, In Tender Pity 0:18min
1-20 - No. 18. Athamus: ‘Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell’ 3:50min
1-21 - No. 19. Ino: ‘Too Well I See’ 0:43min
1-22 - No. 20. Ino: ‘You’ve Undone Me’ 2:26min
- Scene 3
1-23.1 - No. 21. Cadmus: ‘Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom’d To Disastrous Love!’ –
- Scene 4
1-23.2 - Cadmus: ‘See, See, Jove’s Priests And Holy Augurs Come’ 2:08min
1-24 - No. 22. Chorus: ‘Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salutes The Theban King’ 1:30min
1-25 - No. 23. Semele: ‘Endless Pleasure, Endless Love’ 4:50min
- Act II
2-1 - No. 24. Sinfonia. Presto 1:34min
- Scene 1
2-2 - No. 25. Juno: ‘Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay’ 0:47min
2-3 - No. 26. Iris: ‘There, From Mortal Cares Retiring’ 3:39min
2-4 - No. 27. Juno: ‘No More – I’ll Hear No More’ 2:04min
2-5 - No. 28. Juno: ‘Hence, Iris, Hence Away’ 3:50min
- Scene 2
2-6 - No. 30. Semele: ‘O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?’ 2:54min
- Scene 3
2-7 - No. 31. Semele: ‘Let Me Not Another Moment’ 0:19min
2-8 - No. 32. Jupiter: ‘Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside’ 3:06min
2-9 - No. 33. Jupiter: ‘You Are Mortal, And Require’ 0:17min
2-10 - No. 34. Semele: ‘With Fond Desiring’ 3:21min
2-11 - No. 35. Chorus: ‘How Engaging, How Endearing’ 3:04min
2-12.1 - No. 36. Semele: ‘Ah Me!’ –
2-12.2 - Jupiter: ‘Why Sighs My Semele?’ 1:07min
2-13 - No. 37. Jupiter: ‘I Must With Speed Amuse Her’ 3:56min
2-14 - No. 38. Chorus: ‘Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites’ 2:21min
2-15 - No. 39. Jupiter: ‘By My Command’ 1:03min
2-16 - No. 40. Jupiter: ‘Where’er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan The Glade’ 4:56min
- Scene 4
2-17 - No. 41. Semele: ‘Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?’ 0:39min
2-18 - No. 42. Ino: ‘But Hark! The Heav’nly Sphere Turns Round’ 2:26min
2-19 - No. 43. Ino And Semele: ‘Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir’ 1:57min
2-20 - No. 44. Chorus: ‘Bless The Glad Earth With Heav’nly Lays’ 2:42min
- Act III
3-1 - No. 45. [Sinfonia.] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto 1:28min
- Scene 1
3-2 - No. 46. Juno: ‘Somnus, Awake’ 0:31min
3-3 - No. 47. Somnus: ‘Leave Me, Loathsome Light’ 3:26min
3-4 - No. 48. Iris: ‘Dull God, Canst Thou Attend The Water’s Fall’ 0:29min
3-5 - No. 49. Somnus: ‘More Sweet Is That Name’ 2:27min
3-6 - No. 50. Juno: ‘My Will Obey’ 1:14min
3-7 - No. 51. Juno: ‘Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign’ 1:59min
- Scene 2
3-8 - No. 52. Semele: ‘My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed’ 2:42min
- Scene 3
3-9 - No. 53. Juno: ‘Thus Shap’d Like Ino’ 1:26min
3-10 - No. 54. Semele: ‘Myself I Shall Adore’ 7:16min
3-11 - No. 55. Juno: ‘Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful’ 1:48min
3-12 - No. 56. Semele: ‘Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid’ 2:20min
3-13 - No. 57. Juno: ‘Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air’ 0:22min
- Scene 4
3-14 - No. 58. Jupiter: ‘Come To My Arms, My Lovely Fair’ 2:51min
3-15 - No. 59. Jupiter: ‘O Semele’ 0:06min
3-16 - No. 60. Semele: ‘I Ever Am Granting’ 1:35min
3-17 - No. 61. Jupiter: ‘Speak, Speak Your Desire’ 0:37min
3-18 - No. 62. Semele: ‘You’ll Grant What I Require’ 0:10min
3-19 - No. 63. Semele: ‘Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear’ 0:16min
3-20 - No. 64. Jupiter: ‘Ah, Take Heed What You Press’ 1:14min
3-21 - No. 65. Semele: ‘No, No! I’ll Take No Less’ 5:12min
- Scene 5
3-22 - No. 66. Jupiter: ‘Ah! Whither Is She Gone! Unhappy Fair!’ 3:06min
- Scene 6
3-23 - No. 67. Juno: ‘Above Measure’ 2:22min
- Scene 7
3-24 - No. 68. Semele: ‘Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent’ 3:07min
- Scene 8
3-25 - No. 69. Ino: ‘Of My Ill-boding Dream’ 0:12min
3-26 - No. 70. Chorus: ‘O Terror And Astonishment!’ 4:00min
3-27 - No. 71. Ino: ‘How I Was Hence Remov’d’ 0:41min
3-28 - No. 72. Athamus: ‘Despair No More Shall Wound Me’ 5:07min
3-29 - No. 73. Cadmus: ‘See From Above The Bellying Clouds Descend’ 0:14min
- Scene 9
3-30 - No. 74. Sinfonia. [ ] 1:19min
3-31 - No. 75. Apollo: ‘Apollo Comes To Relieve Your Care’ 0:43min
3-32 - No. 76. All: ‘Happy, Happy Shall We Be’ 3:02min