Handel: Semele

1. 1
   Overture
   9:04
2. 2
   Behold! auspicious flashes arise
   1:26
3. 3
   Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
   3:08
4. 4
   Daughter, Obey
   0:58
5. 5
   Ah! Ne! - O Jove!
   2:44
6. 6
   The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note
   7:05
7. 7
   See She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
   0:18
8. 8
   Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
   4:38
9. 9
   Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me
   0:48
10. 10
    Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
    2:45
11. 11
    Avert These Omens
    2:00
12. 12
    Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
    0:39
13. 13
    Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!
    0:17
14. 14
    Cease Your Vows
    0:36
15. 15
    O Athamas, What Toture Hast Thou Borne!
    0:30
16. 16
    Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
    8:26
17. 17
    She Weeps!
    0:25
18. 18
    Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell
    4:56
19. 19
    Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me
    0:47
20. 20
    You've Undone Me / With My Life I Would Atone
    2:29
21. 21
    Ah, Wretched Prince / Wing'd With Our Fears /O Prodigy/See, See, Jove's Priests
    2:07
22. 22
    Handel: Semele, HWV 58 / Act 1: Hail Cadmus!
    1:34
23. 23
    Endless Pleasure...
    4:30
24. 24
    Overture
    1:31
25. 25
    Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay
    0:46
26. 26
    There From Mortal Cares Retiring
    3:27
27. 27
    No More - I'll Hear No More! / Awake Saturnia...
    1:55
28. 28
    Hence, Iris, Hence Away
    3:23
29. 29
    Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
    3:10
30. 30
    Let Me Not Another Moment
    0:16
31. 31
    Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside
    3:02
32. 32
    You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest
    0:23
33. 33
    With Fond Desiring
    2:54
34. 34
    How Engaging, How Endearing
    3:06
35. 35
    Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele!
    1:23
36. 36
    I Must With Speed Amuse Her
    3:44
37. 37
    Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites
    2:21
38. 38
    By My Command
    1:18
39. 39
    Where'er You Walk
    4:53
40. 40
    Handel: Semele, HWV 58 / Act 2: Dear Sister
    0:46
41. 41
    But Hark! The Heavenly Sphere
    2:14
42. 42
    Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir
    2:02
43. 43
    Bless The Glad Earth
    2:43
44. 44
    Overture
    1:22
45. 45
    Somnus, awake
    0:31
46. 46
    Leave Me, Loathsome Light
    3:07
47. 47
    Handel: Semele, HWV 58 / Act 3: Dull God
    0:40
48. 48
    More Sweet Is That Name
    2:14
49. 49
    My Will Obey
    1:23
50. 50
    Obey My Will / All I Must Grant
    1:53
51. 51
    My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed
    2:53
52. 52
    Thus Shap'd Like Ino
    1:14
53. 53
    Behold This Mirror
    2:40
54. 54
    O Ecstasy Of Happiness
    0:19
55. 55
    Myself I Shall Adore
    6:39
56. 56
    Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful
    0:37
57. 57
    Conjure Him By His Oath
    1:28
58. 58
    Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd
    2:13
59. 59
    Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air
    0:32
60. 60
    Come To My Arms
    2:58
61. 61
    O Semele! Why Art Thou....? / I Ever Am Granting,..
    1:42
62. 62
    Speak What You Desire
    0:15
63. 63
    By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear
    0:27
64. 64
    You'll Grant What I Require? / Then Cast Off This Human
    0:34
65. 65
    Ah, Take Heed
    1:11
66. 66
    No, No, I'll Take No Less
    5:14
67. 67
    Ah, Whither Is She Gone?
    3:01
68. 68
    Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies
    2:22
69. 69
    Ah Me, Too Late I Now Repent
    3:44
70. 70
    Of My Ill-Boding Dream
    0:21
71. 71
    Oh, Terror And Astonishment
    3:56
72. 72
    How I Was Hence Remov'd
    1:00
73. 73
    Despair No More Shall Wound Me
    5:03
74. 74
    See From Above The Belling Clouds Descend
    0:17
75. 75
    Sinfonia: Apollo Come
    1:29
76. 76
    Appolo Comes, To Relieve Your Care
    0:57
77. 77
    Happy Shall We Be
    2:56

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