Sheila Armstrong, soprano ; Felicity Parlmer, mezzo soprano ; Helen Watts, contralto ; Robert Tear, ténor ; Justino Diaz, basse ; Harold Lester, clavecin, orgue ; Amor Artis Chorale ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Johannes Somary, chef d'orchestre

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Semele, HWV 58, Act I: Overture - Gavotte (5:59) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Recitative. Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Priest) (1:55) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus) (3:54) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Recitative and Aria. Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) (1:14) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Recitative. Ah me, ah me! What refuge now Is left me? - Aria. O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose (Semele) (3:37) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Recitative. Alas, she yields, and has undone me! (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele) (4:28) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Chorus. Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus) (2:12) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 1: Recitative. Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus, Athamas, Semele, Chorus) (2:06) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 3: Recitative. Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino) (3:07) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 4: See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come (Cadmus, Chorus) (1:38) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene 4: Aria and Chorus. Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele, Chorus) (4:54) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II: Symphony (1:52) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 1: Recitative. No more, I'll hear no more! - Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy! (Juno) - Hear, mighty queen - With adamant the gates Are barr'd [Iris] (6:17) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 2: Aria. O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele) (3:50) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Recitative. Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele, Jupiter) (4:14) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Recitative. You Are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter, Athamas, Chorus) (4:55) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Recitative. Ah me! - Why sighs my Semele? (Semele, Jupiter) (3:55) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Chorus. Now Love That everlasting boy invites (Chorus) (2:43) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Recitative. By my command (Jupiter, Semele) (6:47) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 4: Recitative. Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino, Chorus) (3:41) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 4: Duet. Prepare then, ye immortal choir! (Semele, Ino) (2:28) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 4: Chorus. Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus) (2:58) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III: (Symphony) Larghetto e piano per tutto (1:58) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Recitative. Somnus, awake! Eaise thy reclining head! (Juno, Iris, Somnus) (5:08) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Recitative. Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno, Sumnos) (3:37) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 1: Recitative. My will obey, She shall be thine (Juno, Somnus) (3:17) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Aria. Myself I shall adore (Semele, Juno) (7:29) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Recitative. Be wise, as you Are beautiful (Juno, Semele) - Conjure him by his oath [Juno] (4:56) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 3: Recitative. Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele) (4:07) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: Recitative. O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter, Semele) (2:55) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: Recitative. Speak, speak your desire (Jupiter, Semele) - By That tremendous flood, I swear [Jupiter] (3:28) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 4: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele) (5:56) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 5: Recitative. Ah, whither Is she gone! (Jupiter) (3:51) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 6: Aria. Above measure Is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies! (Juno) (2:21) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 7: Recitative. Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele) (4:19) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene 8: Recitative. Of my ill-boding dream (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas, Chorus) (5:08) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene the last: Symphony (1:44) -- Semele, HWV 58, Act III Scene the last: Chorus. Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) (4:31)