Semele HWV 58

• Ouverture
  05:09
• Gavotte
  02:23

Act I

• No. 1 Accompagnato 'Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (High Priest)
  01:26
• No. 2 'Lucky omens bless our rites' (Chorus)
  03:37
• No. 3 Recitative and Arioso 'Daughter, obey, hear and obey!' (Cadmus, Athamas)
  01:04
• No. 4 Accompagnato 'Ah me! What refuge now is left me?' – No. 5 Air 'Oh Jove!' (Semele)
  02:54
• No. 6 Air 'The morning lark to mine accords his note' (Semele)
  06:28
• Air 'See, she blushing turns her eyes' (Ino)
  03:56
• Recitative 'Alas! She yields, and has undone me!' (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  00:58
• No. 8 Quartet 'Why dost thou thus untimely grieve' (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  02:18
• No. 9 'Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!' (Chorus of Priests)
  02:15
• No. 10 Accompagnato 'Again auspicious flashes rise' (Cadmus)
  00:48
• Recitative 'Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!' (Athamas, Semele)
  00:19
• No. 11 'Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed' (Chorus of Priests)
  00:40
• Recitative 'O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!' (Athamas)
  00:30
• No. 12 Air 'Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye' (Ino)
  08:42
• Recitative 'She weeps!' (Athamas)
  00:27
• No. 13 Air 'Your tuneful voice my tale would tell' (Athamas)
  03:53
• Recitative 'Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me' (Ino, Athamas)
  00:57
• No. 14 Duet 'You've undone me' (Ino, Athamas)
  02:21
• No. 15 Recitative and Accompagnato 'Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!' (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
  02:32
• No. 16 'Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King' (Chorus)
  01:58
• No. 17 Air 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Semele)
  02:54
• No. 18 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Chorus)
  01:46

Act II

• Sinfonia
  01:47
• Recitative 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' (Juno, Iris)
  01:05
• No. 20 Air 'There, from mortal cares retiring' (Iris)
  02:59
• No. 21 Recitative and Accompagnato 'No more, I'll hear no more!' (Juno, Iris)
  02:26
• No. 22 Air 'Hence, Iris, hence away!' (Juno)
  03:53
• Air 'Come, Zephyrs, come' (Cupid)
  06:03
• No. 23 Air 'O sleep, why dost thou leave me?' (Semele)
  02:47
• Recitative 'Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence' (Semele)
  00:22
• No. 24 Air 'Lay your doubts and fears aside' (Jupiter)
  03:07
• Recitative 'You are mortal and require time to rest' (Jupiter)
  00:34
• No. 25 Air 'With fond desiring' (Semele)
  03:34
• No. 26 'How engaging, how endearing' (Chorus)
  02:46
• Recitative 'Ah me!' (Semele, Jupiter)
  01:36
• No. 27 Air 'I must with speed amuse her' (Jupiter)
  04:04
• No. 28 'Now Love, that everlasting boy' (Chorus)
  02:32
• Recitative 'By my command now' (Jupiter, Semele)
  01:33
• No. 29 Air 'Where'er you walk' (Jupiter)
  03:29
• Recitative 'Dear sister, how was your passage hither?' (Semele, Ino)
  00:47
• No. 30 Air 'But hark!' (Ino)
  01:30
• No. 31 Duet 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir' (Ino, Semele)
  02:06
• No. 32 'Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays' (Chorus)
  02:39

Act III

• Sinfonia
  01:51
• No. 34 Accompagnato 'Somnus, awake!' (Juno, Iris)
  00:32
• No. 35 Air 'Leave me, loathsome light!' (Somnus)
  03:07
• Recitative 'Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall' (Iris, Juno)
  00:35
• No. 36 Air 'More sweet is that name' (Somnus)
  02:19
• Recitative 'My will obey' (Juno, Somnus)
  01:26
• No. 37 Duet 'Obey my will' (Juno, Somnus)
  01:59
• No. 38 Air 'My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed' (Semele)
  03:15
• Recitative 'Thus shap'd like Ino' (Juno, Semele)
  01:08
• Recitative 'Behold in this mirror' (Juno)
  02:56
• Recitative 'O ecstasy of happiness!' (Semele)
  00:13
• No. 39 Air 'Myself I shall adore' (Semele)
  06:47
• Recitative 'Be wise, as you are beautiful' (Juno, Semele)
  00:30
• No. 40 Accompagnato 'Conjure him by his oath' (Juno)
  01:27
• No. 41 Air 'Thus let my thanks be pay'd' (Semele)
  02:18
• Recitative 'Rich odours fill the fragrant air' (Juno, Semele)
  00:36
• No. 42 Air 'Come to my arms, my lovely fair' (Jupiter)
  03:02
• No. 43 Recitative 'O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?' – Air 'I ever am granting' (Jupiter, Semele)
  01:39
• No. 44 Accompagnato 'By that tremendous flood' – No. 45 Accompagnato 'Then cast off' (Jupiter, Semele)
  01:20
• No. 46 Air 'Ah! Take heed what you press!' (Jupiter)
  01:16
• No. 47 Air 'No, no, I'll take no less' (Semele)
  05:28
• No. 48 Accompagnato 'Ah, whither is she gone!' (Jupiter)
  02:57
• No. 49 Air 'Above measure is the pleasure' (Juno)
  02:40
• No. 50 Arioso 'Ah me! Too late I now repent' (Semele)
  03:02
• Recitative 'Of my ill-boding dream' (Ino)
  00:18
• No. 51 'Oh, terror and astonishment!' (Chorus)
  03:05
• Recitative 'How I was hence remov'd' (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
  00:53
• No. 52 Air 'Despair no more shall wound me' (Athamas)
  05:25
• Recitative 'See from above the bellying clouds descend' (Cadmus)
  00:19
• Sinfonia
  02:10
• No. 54 Recitative 'Apollo comes, to relieve your care' (Apollo)
  01:06
• No. 55 'Happy, happy shall we be' (Chorus of Priests)
  03:48