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CD 1 |
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1. |
Act I: Overture |
5:08 |
2. |
Act I: Gavotte |
2:23 |
3. |
Act I: Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Chief Priest) |
1:26 |
4. |
Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
3:37 |
5. |
Act I: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) |
1:03 |
6. |
Act I: Accompagnato and Aria: Ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele) |
2:53 |
7. |
Act I: Aria: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele) |
6:27 |
8. |
Act I: Aria: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Ino) |
3:55 |
9. |
Act I: Recitative: Alas! She yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele) |
0:58 |
10. |
Act I: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) |
2:17 |
11. |
Act I: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
2:15 |
12. |
Act I: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus) |
0:47 |
13. |
Act I: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele) |
0:18 |
14. |
Act I: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
0:39 |
15. |
Act I: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) |
0:30 |
16. |
Act I: Aria: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino) |
8:42 |
17. |
Act I: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas) |
0:27 |
18. |
Act I: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas) |
3:52 |
19. |
Act I: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas) |
0:56 |
20. |
Act I: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas) |
2:21 |
21. |
Act I: Recitative and Accompagnato: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) |
2:31 |
22. |
Act I: Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) |
1:57 |
23. |
Act I: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele) |
2:54 |
24. |
Act I: Endless pleasure, endless love (Chorus of Love and Zephyrs) |
1:46 |
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CD 2 |
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1. |
Act II: Symphony |
1:46 |
2. |
Act II: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris) |
1:04 |
3. |
Act II: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris) |
2:59 |
4. |
Act II: Recitative and Accompagnato: No more, I'll hear no more! (Juno, Iris) |
2:25 |
5. |
Act II: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) |
3:53 |
6. |
Act II: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) |
6:02 |
7. |
Act II: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) |
2:47 |
8. |
Act II: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele) |
0:22 |
9. |
Act II: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter) |
3:06 |
10. |
Act II: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter) |
0:33 |
11. |
Act II: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele) |
3:33 |
12. |
Act II: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) |
2:45 |
13. |
Act II: Recitative: Ah me! (Semele, Jupiter) |
1:35 |
14. |
Act II: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter) |
4:03 |
15. |
Act II: Now Love, that everlasting boy (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) |
2:32 |
16. |
Act II: Recitative: By my command now (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:33 |
17. |
Act II: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter) |
3:28 |
18. |
Act II: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino) |
0:47 |
19. |
Act II: Aria: But hark! (Ino) |
1:30 |
20. |
Act II: Accompagnato and Arioso: Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino, Semele) |
2:06 |
21. |
Act II: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus of Nymphs and Swains) |
2:39 |
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CD 3 |
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1. |
Act III: Symphony |
1:51 |
2. |
Act III: Accompagnato: Somnus, awake! (Juno, Iris) |
0:31 |
3. |
Act III: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) |
3:07 |
4. |
Act III: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno) |
0:34 |
5. |
Act III: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus) |
2:19 |
6. |
Act III: Recitative: My will obey (Juno, Somnus) |
1:25 |
7. |
Act III: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus) |
1:59 |
8. |
Act III: Aria: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Semele) |
3:14 |
9. |
Act III: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele) |
1:08 |
10. |
Act III: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno) |
2:55 |
11. |
Act III: Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) |
0:12 |
12. |
Act III: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele) |
6:47 |
13. |
Act III: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele) |
0:30 |
14. |
Act III: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) |
1:27 |
15. |
Act III: Aria: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) |
2:18 |
16. |
Act III: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) |
0:36 |
17. |
Act III: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter) |
3:02 |
18. |
Act III: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:39 |
19. |
Act III: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) |
1:19 |
20. |
Act III: Aria: Ah! Take heed what you press! (Jupiter) |
1:16 |
21. |
Act III: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) |
5:27 |
22. |
Act III: Recitative: Ah, whither is she gone! (Jupiter) |
2:57 |
23. |
Act III: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) |
2:40 |
24. |
Act III: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) |
3:01 |
25. |
Act III: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) |
0:17 |
26. |
Act III: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) |
3:05 |
27. |
Act III: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) |
0:52 |
28. |
Act III: Aria: Despair no more shall wound me (Athamas) |
5:25 |
29. |
Act III: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) |
0:19 |
30. |
Act III: Symphony |
2:10 |
31. |
Act III: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo) |
1:05 |
32. |
Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) |
3:47 |