Händel: Semele HWV 58 (3CD)

CD 1
1 Ouverture
2 Allegro - Adagio
3 Gavotte

Act 1
4 Behold! Auspicious flashes rise
5 Lucky omens bless our rites
6 Daughter, obey
7 Ah me! What refuge now is left me?
8 The morning lark to mine accords his note
9 See, she blushing turns her eyes
10 Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare
11 Alas! she yields
12 Why dost thou untimely grieve
13 Choir: Avert these omens
14 Again auspicious flashes rise
15 Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamus implores
16 Choir: Cease, cease your vows
17 O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!
18 Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes
19 She weeps! The gentle maid, in tender pity
20 Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
21 Too well l see
22 You've undone me
23 Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!
24 See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come - Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King
25 Endless pleasure, endless love

CD 2
Act 2
1 Sinfonia
2 Iris, impatient of thy stay
3 There, from mortal cares retiring
4 No more - l'll hear no more
5 Hence, Iris, hence away!
6 O sleep, why dost thou leave me?
7 Let me not another moment
8 Lay your doubts and fears aside
9 You are mortal, and require
10 With fond desiring
11 Choir: How engaging, how endearing
12 Ah me!
13 Why sighs my Semele? - I must with speed amuse her
14 Choir: Now love that everlasting boy invites
15 By my command
16 Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade
17 Dear sister, how was your journey hither?
18 But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round
19 Prepare then, ye immortal choir
20 Choir: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays

CD 3
Act 3
1 Sinfonia
2 Somnus, awake!
3 Leave me, loathsome light!
4 Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall
5 More sweet is that name
6 My will obey
7 Obey my will, thy rod resign
8 My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers feed
9 Thus shap'd like Ino
10 Myself l shall adore
11 Be wise, as you are beautiful
12 Thus let my thanks be paid
13 Rich odours fill the fragrant air
14 Come to my arms, my lovely fair
15 O Semele
16 I ever am granting
17 Speak, speak your desire
18 You'll grant what l require
19 Then cast off this human shape which you wear
20 Ah, take heed what you press!
21 No, no, I'll take no less
22 Ah, whither is she gone! Unhappy fair!
23 Above measure
24 Ah, me! too late I now repent
25 Of my ill-boding dream
26 O terror and astonishment
27 How l was hence remov'd
28 Despair no more shall wound me
29 See from above the bellying clouds descend
30 Sinfonia
31 Apollo comes to relieve your care
32 Happy, happy shall we be