Track List
CD 1: Handel: Semele


George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58
Act 1
1. Overture 0:009:04
English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
2. Behold! auspicious flashes arise 0:001:26
Mark S. Doss, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
3. Lucky omens bless our rites 0:003:08
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
4. Daughter, obey 0:000:58
Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
5. Ah! me! - O Jove! 0:002:44
6. The morning lark to mine accords his note 0:007:05
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
7. See she blushing turns her eyes 0:000:18
8. Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare 0:004:38
Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
9. Alas! she yields, and has undone me 0:000:48
Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
10. Why dost thou thus untimely grieve? 0:002:45
Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
11. Avert these omens 0:002:00
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
12. Again auspicious flashes rise 0:000:39
Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
13. Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! 0:000:17
Michael Chance, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
14. Cease your vows 0:000:36
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
15. O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne! 0:000:30
Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
16. Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes 0:008:26
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
17. She weeps! 0:000:25
18. Your tuneful voice my tale would tell 0:004:56
Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
19. Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me 0:000:47
20. You´ve undone me / With my life I would atone 0:002:29
Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
21. Ah, wretched prince / Wing´d with our fears /O prodigy/See, see, Jove´s Priests 0:002:07
Michael Chance, Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
22. Hail Cadmus! 0:001:34
Samuel Ramey, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
23. Endless pleasure... 0:004:30
Kathleen Battle, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
Total Playing Time 1:02:10
CD 2: Handel: Semele
George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58
Act 2
1. Overture 0:001:31
English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
2. Iris, impatient of thy stay 0:000:46
Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
3. There from mortal cares retiring 0:003:27
Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
4. No more - I´ll hear no more! / Awake Saturnia.. 0:001:55
Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
5. Hence, Iris, hence away 0:003:23
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
6. Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me? 0:003:10
7. Let me not another moment 0:000:16
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
8. Lay your doubts and fears aside 0:003:02
9. You are mortal and require time to rest 0:000:23
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
10. With fond desiring 0:002:54
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
11. How engaging, how endearing 0:003:06
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
12. Ah me! why sighs my Semele! 0:001:23
Kathleen Battle, John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
13. I must with speed amuse her 0:003:44
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
14. Now Love that everlasting boy invites 0:002:21
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
15. By my command 0:001:18
John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
16. Where´er you walk 0:004:53
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
17. Dear Sister 0:000:46
Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
18. But hark! The Heavenly Sphere 0:002:14
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
19. Prepare then, ye immortal choir 0:002:02
Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
20. Bless the glad earth 0:002:43
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
Total Playing Time 45:17
CD 3: Handel: Semele
George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58
Act 3
1. Overture 0:001:22
English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
2. Somnus, awake 0:000:31
Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
3. Leave me, loathsome light 0:003:07
Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
4. Dull God 0:000:40
Sylvia McNair, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
5. More sweet is that name 0:002:14
Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
6. My will obey 0:001:23
7. Obey my will / All I must grant 0:001:53
Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
8. My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed 0:002:53
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
9. Thus shap´d like Ino 0:001:14
Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
10. Behold this mirror 0:002:40
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
11. O ecstasy of happiness 0:000:19
12. Myself I shall adore 0:006:39
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
13. Be wise, as you are beautiful 0:000:37
Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
14. Conjure him by his oath 0:001:28
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
15. Thus let my thanks be pay´d 0:002:13
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
16. Rich odours fill the fragrant air 0:000:32
Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
17. Come to my arms 0:002:58
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
18. O Semele! Why art thou....? / I ever am granting, .. 0:001:42
19. Speak what you desire 0:000:15
John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
20. By that tremendous flood, I swear 0:000:27
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
21. You´ll grant what I require? /Then cast off this human 0:000:34
John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
22. Ah, take heed 0:001:11
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
23. No, no, I´ll take no less 0:005:14
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
24. Ah, whither is she gone? 0:003:01
John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
25. Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies 0:002:22
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
26. Ah me, too late I now repent 0:003:44
Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
27. Of my ill-boding dream 0:000:21
Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
28. Oh, terror and astonishment 0:003:56
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
29. How I was hence remov´d 0:001:00
Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
30. Despair no more shall wound me 0:005:03
Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
31. See from above the belling clouds descend 0:000:17
Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
32. Sinfonia: Apollo come 0:001:29
English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
33. Apollo comes, to relieve your care 0:000:57
Neil Mackie, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
34. Happy shall we be 0:002:56
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson
Total Playing Time 1:07:12




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