Semele

Author(s)

• Handel, George Frideric
• Rolfe Johnson, Anthony
• Penrose, Timothy
• Davies, Maldwyn
• Lloyd, Robert
• Kwella, Patrizia
• Thomas, David
• Jones, Della
• Burrowes, Norma
• Priday, Elisabeth
• Denley, Catherine
• Monteverdi Choir
• English Baroque Soloists
• Gardiner, John Eliot

Bibliographic Information

Semele

Handel

Erato, p1983, c1993

Musical Sound Recording（Compact Audio Disc）

Note

Compact discs

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