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Music CD 1

Semele: Ouverture-Gavotte
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise! (Priest)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Chorus: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, Obey, Hear And Obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Accompagnato: Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me? - Air: O Jove! In Pity Teach Me Which To Choose (Semele)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Air: The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note (Semele)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Recitative: See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes (Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Air: Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare (Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Recitative: Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Quartetto: Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Chorus: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (Priests)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Accompagnato: Again Auspicious Flashes Rise (Cadmus)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Recitative: Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores! (Athamas, Semele)
Semele: Act I - Scene 1 - Chorus: Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious To Proceed (Priests)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Recitative: O Athamas, What Tortue Hast Thou Borne! (Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Air: Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes (Ino)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Recitative: She Weeps! (Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Air: Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell (Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Recitative: Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me (Ino, Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 2 - Duetto: You've Undone Me - With My Life I Would Atone (Ino, Athamas)
Semele: Act I - Scene 3 - Recitative: Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd To Disastrous Love! (Cadmus, Athamas) - Accompagnato: Wing'd With Our Fears And Pious Haste (Cadmus) - Recitative: O Prodigy, To Me Of Dire Protent! (Athamas, Ino)
Semele: Act I - Scene 4 - Chorus: Hail Cadmus, Hail! (Priests, Augurs)
Semele: Act I - Scene 4 - Air and Chorus: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (Semele, Chorus)

Music CD 2

Semele: Act II - Sinfonia
Semele: Act II - Scene 1 - Recitative: Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay (Juno, Iris)
Semele: Act II - Scene 1 - Air: There From Mortal Cares Retiring (Iris)
Semele: Act II - Scene 1 - Recitative: No More - I'll Hear No More! (Juno) - Accompagnato: Awake Saturnia From Thy Lethargy! (Juno, Iris)
Semele: Act II - Scene 1 - Air: Hence, Iris, Hence Away (Juno)
Semele: Act II - Scene 2 - Air: O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (Semele)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Recitative: Let Me Not Another Moment Bear The Pangs Of Absence (Semele)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Air: Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside (Jupiter)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Recitative: You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest (Jupiter)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Air: With Fond Desiring (Semele)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Chorus: How Engaging, How Endearing (Loves, Zephyrs)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Recitative: Ah Me! - Why Sighs My Semele? (Semele, Jupiter)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Air: I Must With Speed Amuse Her (Jupiter)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Chorus: Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites (Loves, Zephyrs)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Recitative: By My Command (Jupiter, Semele)
Semele: Act II - Scene 3 - Air: Where'er You Walk (Jupiter)
Semele: Act II - Scene 4 - Recitative: Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither? (Semele, Ino)
Semele: Act II - Scene 4 - Air: But Hark! The Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round (Ino)
Semele: Act II - Scene 4 - Duetto: Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir (Semele, Ino)
Semele: Act II - Scene 4 - Chorus: Bless The Glad Earth With Heav'nly Lays (Nymphs, Swains)

Music CD 3

Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - (Symphony) Larghetto e piano per tutto
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Accompagnato: Somnus, Awake, Raise Thy Reclining Head! (Juno, Iris)
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Air: Leave Me, Loathsome Light (Somnus)
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Recitative: Dull God, Canst Thou Attend The Water's Fall (Iris, Juno)
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Air: More Sweet Is That Name (Somnus)
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Recitative: My Will Obey, She Shall Be Thine (Juno, Somnus)
Semele: Act III - Scene 1 - Duetto: Obey My Will - All I Must Grant (Juno, Somnus)
Semele: Act III - Scene 2 - Air: My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Recitative: Thus Shap'd Like Ino (Juno, Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Air: Behold In This Mirror (Juno)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Recitative: O Ecstasy Of Happiness (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Air: Myself I Shall Adore (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Recitative: Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful (Juno, Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Accompagnato: Conjure Him By His Oath (Juno)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Air: Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 3 - Recitative: Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air (Juno, Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Air: Come To My Arms, My Lovely Fair (Jupiter)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Recitative: O Semele! Why Art Thous Thus Insensible? - Air: I Ever Am Granting, You Always Complain (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Recitative: Speak, Speak Your Desire (Jupiter, Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Accompagnato: By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear (Jupiter)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Recitative: You'll Grant What I Require? (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato: Then Cast Off This Human Shape (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Air: Ah, Take Heed What You Press (Jupiter)
Semele: Act III - Scene 4 - Air: No, No! I'll Take No Less (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 5 - Accompagnato: Ah! Whither Is She Gone! (Jupiter)
Semele: Act III - Scene 6 - Air: Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies (Juno)
Semele: Act III - Scene 7 - Accompagnato: Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent (Semele)
Semele: Act III - Scene 8 - Recitative: Of My Ill-Boding Dream (Ino)
Semele: Act III - Scene 8 - Chorus: Oh, Terror And Astonishment! (Chorus)
Semele: Act III - Scene 8 - Recitative: How I Was Hence Remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
Semele: Act III - Scene 8 - Air: Despair No More Shall Wound Me (Athamas)
Semele: Act III - Scene 8 - Recitative: See From Above The Bellying Clouds Descend (Cadmus)
Semele: Act III - Scene the last - Sinfonia
Semele: Act III - Scene the last - Accompagnato: Apollo Comes, To Relieve Your Care (Apollo)
Semele: Act III - Scene the last - Chorus: Happy, Happy Shall We Be (Chorus)

Handel: Semele

Handel: Semele

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