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Semele HWV 58

Text: William Congreve
Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Solistenvereinigung des Berliner Rundfunks, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Gisela Pohl (Mezzo-soprano), Fritz Hübner (Bass), Regina Werner (Soprano), Renate Hoff (Soprano), Thomas Thomaschke (Bass), Eberhard Büchner (Tenor), Hans-Jürgen Wachsmuth (Tenor), Ingeborg Springer (Mezzo-soprano), Siegfried Lorenz (Bass-baritone), Hermann Christian Polster (Bass)
℗ 1997
    • Act I - Overture
      05:46
    • Act I - Gavotte
      02:10
    • Act I - "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise"
      02:15
    • Act I - "Lucky omens bless our rites"
      04:25
    • Act I - "Daughter, obey, Hear and obey!"
      01:12
    • Act I - "Ah me, ah me! What refuge now is left me? - O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose"
      02:43
    • Act I - "The morning lark to mine accords his note"
      05:01
    • Act I - "See, she blushing turns her eyes"
      00:25
    • Act I - "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare"
      05:00
    • Act I - "Alas, she yields, and has undone me!"
      00:47
    • Act I - "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"
      02:30
    • Act I - "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!"
      02:35
    • Act I - "Again auspicious flashes rise"
      01:04
    • Act I - "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!"
      00:13
    • Act I - "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed"
      00:38
    • Act I - "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!"
      00:28
    • Act I - "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye"
      06:07
    • Act I - "She weeps!"
      00:33
    • Act I - "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"
      03:46
    • Act I - "Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me"
      00:50
    • Act I - "You've undone me - With my life I would atone"
      03:20
    • Act I - "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!"
      00:47
    • Act I - "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste"
      01:11
    • Act I - "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come"
      00:40
    • Act I - "Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King"
      01:54
    • Act I - "Endless pleasure, endless love"
      06:14
    • Act II - Symphony
      01:42
    • Act II - "Iris, impatient of thy stay"
      00:46
    • Act II - "There, from mortal cares retiring"
      03:54
    • Act II - "No more, I'll hear no more!"
      00:08
    • Act II - "Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy!"
      02:18
    • Act II - "Hence, Iris, hence away"
      03:43
    • Act II - "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?"
      02:43
    • Act II - "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence"
      00:20
    • Act II - "Lay your doubts and fears aside"
      02:17
    • Act II - "You are mortal and require time to rest"
      00:24
    • Act II - "With fond desiring"
      03:41
    • Act II - "How engaging, how endearing"
      03:47
    • Act II - "Ah me! - Why sighs my Semele?"
      01:21
    • Act II - "I must with speed amuse her"
      02:46
    • Act II - "Now Love that everlasting boy invites"
      02:51
    • Act II - "By my command"
      01:10
    • Act II - "Where'er you walk"
      03:33
    • Act II - "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?"
      00:43
    • Act II - "But hark, the heav'nly sphere turns round"
      01:35
    • Act II - "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!"
      02:09
    • Act II - "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays"
      03:20
    • Act III - Larghetto e piano per tutto
      01:38
    • Act III - "Somnus, awake! Eaise thy reclining head!"
      00:40
    • Act III - "Leave me, loathsome light"
      03:01
    • Act III - "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall"
      00:30
    • Act III - "More sweet is that name"
      01:43
    • Act III - "My will obey, She shall be thine"
      01:21
    • Act III - "Obey my will - All I must grant"
      02:04
    • Act III - "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed"
      02:30
    • Act III - "Thus shap'd like Ino"
      01:28
    • Act III - "Myself I shall adore"
      04:51
    • Act III - "Be wise, as you are beautiful - Conjure him by his oath"
      00:29
    • Act II - "Conjure him by his oath"
      01:12
    • Act III - "Thus let my thanks be pa'd"
      02:21
    • Act III - "Rich odours fill the fragrant air"
      00:22
    • Act III - "Come to my arms, my lovely fair"
      02:42
    • Act III - "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?"
      00:16
    • Act III - "I ever am granting, you always complain"
      02:43
    • Act III - "Speak, speak your desire - By that tremendous flood, I swear"
      00:13
    • Act III - "By that tremendous flood, I swear"
      00:36
    • Act III - "You'll grant what I require?"
      00:31
    • Act III - "Ah, take heed what you press!"
      01:34
    • Act III - "No, no, I'll take no less"
      02:53
    • Act III - "Ah, whither is she gone!"
      02:57
    • Act III - "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies!"
      02:28
    • Act III - "Ah me! Too late I now repent"
      02:56
    • Act III - "Of my ill-boding dream"
      00:11
    • Act III - "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
      03:30
    • Act III - "How I was hence remov'd"
      00:40
    • Act III - "Despair no more shall wound me"
      03:30
    • Act III - "See from above the bellying clouds descend"
      00:20
    • Act III - Symphony
      01:49
    • Act III - "Apollo comes, to relieve your care"
      00:51
    • Act III - "Happy, happy shall we be"
      03:26

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