John Aler

Semele

Featuring
Release dateJune 02, 1993

Tracklist

1
Semele: Ouverture. Gavotte
9:03
9:03
2
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)
1:26
1:26
3
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)
3:07
3:07
4
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)
0:57
0:57
5
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Ah me! What refuge now is left for me?" - Air "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" (Semele)
2:43
2:43
6
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)
7:04
7:04
7
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)
0:17
0:17
8
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)
4:38
4:38
9
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
0:48
0:48
10
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
2:44
2:44
11
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)
1:59
1:59
12
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)
0:38
0:38
13
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)
0:17
0:17
14
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
0:36
0:36
15
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)
0:29
0:29
16
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)
8:25
8:25
17
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas)
0:24
0:24
18
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)
4:55
4:55
19
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)
0:47
0:47
20
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)
2:28
2:28
21
Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!" - "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" - "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" / Scene IV. "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come"
2:07
2:07
22
Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)
1:34
1:34
23
Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)
4:30
4:30
24
Semele: Act II. Sinfonia
1:30
1:30
25
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
0:46
0:46
26
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)
3:26
3:26
27
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - Accompagnato "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)
1:55
1:55
28
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
3:23
3:23
29
Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
3:09
3:09
30
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)
0:16
0:16
31
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)
3:02
3:02
32
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)
0:23
0:23
33
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele)
2:53
2:53
34
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)
3:06
3:06
35
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter)
1:23
1:23
36
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
3:44
3:44
37
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)
2:21
2:21
38
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)
1:17
1:17
39
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
4:53
4:53
40
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)
0:46
0:46
41
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)
2:13
2:13
42
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)
2:01
2:01
43
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)
2:43
2:43
44
Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tutto
1:21
1:21
45
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)
0:31
0:31
46
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)
3:07
3:07
47
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)
0:40
0:40
48
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
2:14
2:14
49
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
1:22
1:22
50
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)
1:52
1:52
51
Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
2:53
2:53
52
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
1:13
1:13
53
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno)
2:40
2:40
54
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)
0:19
0:19
55
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)
6:39
6:39
56
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
0:37
0:37
57
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
1:27
1:27
58
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)
2:13
2:13
59
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)
0:31
0:31
60
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)
2:57
2:57
61
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - Air "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)
1:42
1:42
62
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele)
0:14
0:14
63
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)
0:26
0:26
64
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)
0:33
0:33
65
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)
1:11
1:11
66
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)
5:13
5:13
67
Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
3:01
3:01
68
Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)
2:21
2:21
69
Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
3:44
3:44
70
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)
0:21
0:21
71
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus)
3:55
3:55
72
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
0:59
0:59
73
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)
5:03
5:03
74
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)
0:17
0:17
75
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Sinfonia
1:28
1:28
76
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)
0:56
0:56
77
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)
2:56
2:56
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