Semele HWV 58
Antony Walker, Sirius Ensemble, Cantillation, Craig Everingham (Bass), Tobias Cole (Countertenor), Stephen Bennett (Bass), Anna Ryberg (Soprano), Sally-Anne Russell (Mezzo-soprano), Belinda Montgomery (Soprano), Shelli Gilhome (Soprano), Angus Wood (Tenor), Paul McMahon (Tenor)
2002 - 2002, Sydney, City Recital Hall Angel Place
- 06:53Overture
Act I
- 01:40Accompagnato 'Behold! auspicious flashes arise' (High Priest)
- 02:37'Lucky omens bless our rites' (Chorus)
- 01:08Recitative and Arioso 'Daughter, obey!' (Cadmus, Athamas)
- 02:57Accompagnato 'Ah! me!' – Air 'O Jove!' (Semele)
- 00:20Air 'See she blushing turns her eyes' (Ino)
- 00:44Recitative 'Alas! she yields, and has undone me' (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
- 02:52Quartet 'Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?' (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
- 01:54'Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!' (Chorus)
- 00:40Accompagnato 'Again auspicious flashes rise' (Cadmus)
- 00:18Recitative 'Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!' (Athamas, Semele)
- 00:32'Cease your vows' (Chorus)
- 00:32Recitative 'O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!' (Athamas)
- 04:16Air 'Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes' (Ino)
- 00:25Recitative 'She weeps!' (Athamas)
- 05:08Air 'Your tuneful voice my tale would tell' (Athamas)
- 00:57Recitative 'Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me' (Ino, Athamas)
- 02:25Duet 'You've undone me' (Ino, Athamas)
- 01:52Recitative and Accompagnato 'Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!' (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino)
- 04:28Air 'Endless pleasure, endless love' (Semele)
Act II
- 01:28Sinfonia
- 00:52Recitative 'Iris, impatient of thy stay' (Juno, Iris)
- 03:57There from mortal cares retiring
- 01:49Recitative and Accompagnato 'No more! I'll hear no more!' (Juno, Iris)
- 03:11Air 'Hence, Iris, hence away' (Juno)
- 06:09Air 'Come, Zephyrs, come' (Cupid)
- 03:16Air 'Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?' (Semele)
- 00:21Recitative 'Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence' (Semele)
- 03:10Air 'Lay your doubts and fears aside' (Jupiter)
- 00:25Recitative 'You are mortal and require time to rest' (Jupiter)
- 03:21Air 'With fond desiring' (Semele)
- 01:20'How engaging, how endearing' (Chorus)
- 01:19Recitative 'Ah me! why sighs my Semele!' (Semele, Jupiter)
- 03:36Air 'I must with speed amuse her' (Jupiter)
- 02:28'Now Love, that everlasting boy invites' (Chorus)
- 01:06Recitative 'By my command' (Jupiter, Semele)
- 04:27Air 'Where'er you walk' (Jupiter)
- 00:45Recitative 'Dear Sister, how was your passage hither?' (Semele, Ino)
- 02:05Air 'But hark! The heavenly sphere' (Ino)
- 01:59Duet 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir' (Ino, Semele)
- 02:14'Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays' (Chorus)
Act III
- 01:16Sinfonia. Larghetto e piano per tutto
- 00:28Accompagnato 'Somnus, awake! Raise thy reclining head!' (Juno, Iris)
- 03:27Air 'Leave me, loathsome light' (Somnus)
- 00:35Recitative 'Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall' (Iris, Juno)
- 02:33Air 'More sweet is that name' (Somnus)
- 01:12Recitative 'My will obey, she shall be thine' (Juno, Somnus)
- 01:47Duet 'Obey my will' (Juno, Somnus)
- 03:11Air 'My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed' (Semele)
- 01:44Recitative 'Thus shap'd like Ino' (Juno, Semele)
- 06:41Air 'Myself I shall adore' (Semele)
- 01:49Recitative 'Be wise, as you are beautiful' (Juno, Semele)
- 02:33Accompagnato 'Thus let my thanks be pay'd' (Juno)
- 00:22Air 'Rich odours fill the fragrant air' (Juno, Semele)
- 03:47Air 'Come to my arms, my lovely fair' (Jupiter)
- 00:10Recitative 'O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?' (Jupiter, Semele)
- 02:03Air 'I ever am granting, you always complain' (Jupiter, Semele)
- 00:42Recitative 'Speak, Speak Your Desire' (Semele, Jupiter)
- 00:13Recitative 'You'll grant what I require?' (Semele, Jupiter)
- 00:27Accompagnato 'Then cast off this human shape' (Semele)
- 01:18Air 'Ah, take heed what you press!' (Jupiter)
- 04:07Air 'No, No, I'll take no less' (Semele)
- 02:48Accompagnato 'Ah, whither is she gone?' (Jupiter)
- 03:06Air 'Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies' (Juno)
- 02:52Arioso 'Ah me, too late I now repent' (Semele)
- 00:14Recitative 'Of my ill-boding dream' (Ino)
- 03:45'Oh, terror and astonishment' (Chorus)
- 00:54Recitative 'How I was hence remov'd' (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
- 00:14Recitative 'See from above the belling clouds descend' (Cadmus)
- 01:22Sinfonia
- 00:49Accompagnato 'Apollo comes, to relieve your care' (Apollo)
- 02:26'Happy shall we be' (Chorus)
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