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Semele

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Erato, p1983, c1993

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原語(仏・英・独)解説書1冊

Recorded: March, 1981, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Londres

Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Maldwyn Davies, tenors ; Timothy Penrose, counter-tenor ; Robert Lloyd, David Thomas, basses ; Della Jones, mezzo-soprano ; Patrizia Kwella, Norma Burrowes, Elisabeth Priday, sopranos ; Catherine Denley, contralto ; Monteverdi Choir ; English Baroque Soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

Contents of Works

  • Overture
  • Act I: Scene 1: "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise"
  • "Lucky omens bless our rites"
  • "Ah, me!"
  • "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"
  • "Avert these omens"
  • "Cease, cease your vows"
  • Scene 2: "Oh, Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!"
  • "You've undone me"
  • Scene 3: "Ah, wretched prince"
  • Scene 4: "See, see!"
  • "Endless pleasure"
  • "Endless pleasure"
  • Act II: Sinfonia Scene 1: "Iris, impatient of thy stay"
  • "Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands"
  • "Hence, Iris, hence away!"
  • Scene 2: "Come, Zephyrs, come"
  • Scene 3: "Let me not another moment"
  • "Lay your doubts"
  • "With fond desiring"
  • "How engaging"
  • "Too well I read her meaning"
  • "Now Love"
  • Act II: Scene 3: "By my command"
  • "See, she appears"
  • Scene 4: "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?"
  • "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!"
  • "Bless the glad earth"
  • Act III: Scene 1: "Somnus, awake!"
  • "Leave me, loathsome light!"
  • "More sweet is that name"
  • "Obey my will"
  • Scene 2: "My racking thoughts"
  • Scene 3: "Thus shap'd like Ino"
  • "O ecstasy of happiness!"
  • "Conjure him by his oath"
  • "Thus let my thanks be pay'd"
  • Scene 4: "Come to my arms"
  • "I ever am granting"
  • "Ah, take heed what you press!"
  • "No, no I'll take no less"
  • Scene 5: "Ah, whither is she gone!"
  • Scene 6: "Above measure is the pleasure"
  • Scene 7: "Ah, me! Too late I now repent"
  • Scene 8: "Of my ill-boding dream"
  • Scene the last: "See from above the bellying clouds descend"
  • Happy, happy shall we be"

Details

  • NCID
    BA58279155
  • Country Code
    xx
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    und
  • Place of Publication
    [S.l.]
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 sound discs (154 min.)
  • Size
    4 3/4 in.
  • Attached Material
    1 pamphlet
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