Semele cover

Semele

George Frideric Handel · 2022

170 min · 79 tracks · classical music

Spotify Apple Music
Own it: Amazon eBay

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

  • 1 Semele, HWV 58: Overture 4:33
  • 2 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 1, Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise (Priest) 1:20
  • 3 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 2, Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (Chorus of Priests) 3:39
  • 4 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 3, Daughter, Obey, Hear and Obey! (Cadmus, Athamas) 1:09
  • 5 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 4, Ah Me! What Refuge Now is Left Me? (Semele) 1:05
  • 6 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 5, Oh Jove! in Pity Teach Me (Semele) 2:06
  • 7 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 6, The Morning Lark To Mine Accords (Semele) 7:10
  • 8 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 7, See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes (Athamas) 0:18
  • 9 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 8, Hymen, Haste! (Athamas) 4:52
  • 10 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 9, Alas! She Yields (Ino, Athamas, Semele) 0:49
  • 11 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 10, Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve (Semele, Ino, Athamas, Cadmus) 2:32
  • 12 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 11, Avert These Omens (Chorus of Priests) 1:54
  • 13 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 12, Again Auspicious Flashes Rise (Cadmus) 0:42
  • 14 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 13, Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores! (Athamas, Semele) 0:19
  • 15 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 14, Cease, Cease Your Vow's (Chorus of Priests) 0:38
  • 16 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 15, O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Borne! (Ino) 0:27
  • 17 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 16, Turn, Hopeless Lover (Ino) 8:45
  • 18 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 17, She Weeps! The Gentle Maid in Tender Pity (Athamas) 0:33
  • 19 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 18, Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell (Athamas) 5:24
  • 20 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 19, Too Well I See, Thou Wilt not Understand Me! (Ino, Athamas) 0:55
  • 21 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 20, Air (Andante Larghetto):You've Undone Me, Look not On Me (Ino, Athamas) 2:24
  • 22 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 21, Ah, Wretched Prince (Cadmus, Athamas) 0:40
  • 23 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 22, Wing'd With Our Fears and Pious Haste (Cadmus) 1:08
  • 24 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 23, O Prodigy, to Me of Dire Portent! (Athamas, Ino) 0:11
  • 25 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 24, See, See! Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come (Cadmus) 0:17
  • 26 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 25, Hail Cadmus, Hail! (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 1:35
  • 27 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 26, Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (Semele) 2:52
  • 28 Semele, HWV 58, Act I: No. 27, Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (Chorus of Priests and Augurs) 2:09

Disc 2

  • 1 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 1, Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay (Juno, Iris) 0:50
  • 2 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 2, There, From Mortal Cares Retiring (Iris) 3:32
  • 3 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 3, No More! I'll Hear No More! (Juno) 0:06
  • 4 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 4, Awake, Saturnia, From Thy Lethargy! (Juno, Iris) 2:04
  • 5 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 5, Hence, Hence, Iris, Hence Away (Juno) 3:28
  • 6 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 6, O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (Semele) 3:06
  • 7 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 7, Come, Zephyrs, Come (Cupid) 5:23
  • 8 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 8, Let Me not Another Moment (Semele) 0:24
  • 9 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 9, Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside (Jupiter) 3:09
  • 10 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 10, You Are Mortal (Jupiter) 0:26
  • 11 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 11, With Fond Desiring (Semele) 3:09
  • 12 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 12, How Engaging, How Endearing (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 3:18
  • 13 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 13, Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele? (Semele, Jupiter) 1:26
  • 14 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 14, I Must With Speed Amuse Her (Jupiter) 4:03
  • 15 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 15, Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites (Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs) 2:19
  • 16 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 16, By My Command Now (Jupiter, Semele) 1:30
  • 17 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 17, Where'er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan the Glade (Jupiter) 4:25
  • 18 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 18, Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither? (Semele, Ino) 0:49
  • 19 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 19, But Hark! the Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round (Ino) 2:03
  • 20 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 20, Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir! (Ino, Semele) 1:52
  • 21 Semele, HWV 58, Act II: No. 21, Bless the Glad Earth With Heav'nly Lays (Chorus of Nymphs) 2:52

Disc 3

  • 1 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 1, Larghetto e piano per tutto 1:18
  • 2 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 2, Somnus, Awake! (Juno, Iris) 0:27
  • 3 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 3, Leave Me, Loathsome Light! (Somnus) 3:36
  • 4 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 4, Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall (Iris, Juno) 0:42
  • 5 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 5, More Sweet is That Name (Somnus) 2:05
  • 6 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 6, My Will Obey, She Shall Be Thine (Juno, Somnus) 1:21
  • 7 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 7, Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign (Juno, Somnus) 1:56
  • 8 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 8, Thus Shap'd Like Ino, With Ease I Shall Deceive Her (Juno, Semele) 1:42
  • 9 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 9, Behold in This Mirrour (Juno) 2:51
  • 10 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 10, Myself I Shall Adore (Semele) 7:05
  • 11 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 11, Be Wise, as You Are Beautiful (Juno, Semele) 0:31
  • 12 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 12, Conjure Him by His Oath (Juno) 1:15
  • 13 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 13, Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid (Semele) 2:45
  • 14 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 14, Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air (Juno, Semele) 0:29
  • 15 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 15, Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair (Jupiter) 3:41
  • 16 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 16, O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible? (Jupiter) 0:24
  • 17 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 17, By That Tremendous Flood (Jupiter) 0:27
  • 18 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 18, You'll Grant What I Require? (Semele, Jupiter) 0:14
  • 19 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 19, Then Cast off This Human Shape (Semele) 0:15
  • 20 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 20, Ah! Take Heed What You Press! (Jupiter) 1:22
  • 21 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 21, No, No, I'll Take No Less (Semele) 6:42
  • 22 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 22, Ah, Whither Is She Gone! (Jupiter) 2:01
  • 23 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 23, Above Measure Is the Pleasure (Juno) 2:08
  • 24 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 24, Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent (Semele) 3:23
  • 25 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 25, Of My Illiboding Dream (Ino) 0:19
  • 26 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 26, Oh Terror and Astonishment! (Chorus of Priests) 4:54
  • 27 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 27, How I Was Hence Remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas) 0:58
  • 28 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 28, See From Above (Cadmus) 0:17
  • 29 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 29, Apollo Comes (Apollo) 0:48
  • 30 Semele, HWV 58, Act III: No. 30, Happy, Happy Shall We Be (Chorus of Priests) 3:11

What to play next

Messiah Oratorio
Listen next

Messiah Oratorio

2023
Enchantresses
Go back to

Enchantresses

2022
Full George Frideric Handel discography Where to start with George Frideric Handel Artists like George Frideric Handel
opera oratorio

Reference: MusicBrainz