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Handel: Semele

Kathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris)

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars More…
  • Release Date: 3rd May 1993
  • Catalogue No: 4357822
  • Label: DG Archiv
  • Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

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Handel: Semele

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  • Mark S. Doss (bass), Kathleen Battle (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Neil Mackie (tenor), Samuel Ramey (bass), John McCarthy (chorus master), Michael Chance (countertenor), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)
  • English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers
  • John Nelson
  • Recorded: 1990-05
  • Recording Venue: Abbey Road, Studio 1, London

Overture

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Behold! Auspicious Flashes Arise

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Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites

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Daughter, Obey

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Ah! Ne! - O Jove!

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The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note

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See She Blushing Turns Her Eyes

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Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare

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Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me

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Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?

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Avert These Omens

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Again Auspicious Flashes Rise

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Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!

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Cease Your Vows

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O Athamas, What Toture Hast Thou Borne!

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Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes

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She Weeps!

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Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell

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Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me

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You've Undone Me / With My Life I Would Atone

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Ah, Wretched Prince / Wing'd With Our Fears / O Prodigy / See, See, Jove's Priests

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Hail Cadmus!

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Endless Pleasure...

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Overture

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Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay

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There From Mortal Cares Retiring

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No More - I'll Hear No More! / Awake Saturnia...

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Hence, Iris, Hence Away

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Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?

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Let Me Not Another Moment

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Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside

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You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest

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With Fond Desiring

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How Engaging, How Endearing

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Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele!

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I Must With Speed Amuse Her

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Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites

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By My Command

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Where'er You Walk

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Dear Sister

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But Hark! The Heavenly Sphere

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Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir

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Bless The Glad Earth

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Overture

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Somnus, Awake

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Leave Me, Loathsome Light

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Dull God

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More Sweet Is That Name

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My Will Obey

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Obey My Will / All I Must Grant

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My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed

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Thus Shap'd Like Ino

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Behold This Mirror

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O Ecstasy Of Happiness

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Myself I Shall Adore

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Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful

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Conjure Him By His Oath

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Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd

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Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air

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Come To My Arms

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O Semele! Why Art Thou....? / I Ever Am Granting,..

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Speak What You Desire

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By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear

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You'll Grant What I Require? / Then Cast Off This Human

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Ah, Take Heed

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No, No, I'll Take No Less

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Ah, Whither Is She Gone?

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Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies

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Ah Me, Too Late I Now Repent

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Of My Ill-Boding Dream

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Oh, Terror And Astonishment

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How I Was Hence Remov'd

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Despair No More Shall Wound Me

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See From Above The Belling Clouds Descend

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Sinfonia: Apollo Come

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Appolo Comes, To Relieve Your Care

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Happy Shall We Be

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