(Oratorio / Vocal) Георг Фридрих Гендель - Семела / George Frideric Handel - Semele - 1981, MP3, 192 kbps

1. Overture (Orchestra) 07:17
2. Act I: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Priest) 01:46
3. Act I: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus) 04:38
4. Act I: Ah, me! (Semele) 03:52
5. Act I: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Cadmus) 03:23
6. Act I: Avert these omens (Chorus of Priests) 03:04
7. Act I: Cease, cease your vows (Chorus of Priests) 00:33
8. Act I: Oh, Athamas; what torture hast thou borne! (Athamas) 00:56
9. Act I: You've undone me (Ino) 03:06
10. Act I: Ah, wretched prince (Cadmus) 01:47
11. Act I: See, see! (Cadmus) 02:06
12. Act I: Endless pleasure (Semele) 02:51
13. Act I: Endless pleasure (Chorus) 01:46
14. Act II: Sinfonia (Orchestra, Juno) 01:58
15. Act II: Look, where Cithaetron proudly stands (Iris) 06:49
16. Act II: Hence, Iris, hence away! (Juno) 03:38
17. Act II: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid) 06:30
18. Act II: Let me not another moment (Semele) 03:26
19. Act II: Lay your doubts (Jupiter) 03:31
20. Act II: With fond desiring (Semele) 03:27
21. Act II: How engaging (Chorus of Lovers and Zephyrs) 04:45
22. Act II: Too well i read her meaning (Jupiter) 04:15
23. Act II: Now Love (Chorus of Lovers and Zephirs) 02:27
24. Act II: By my command (Jupiter) 00:28
25. Act II: See, she appears (Jupiter) 05:56
26. Act II: Dear sister, how was your journey hither? (Semele) 02:53
27. Act II: Prepare then, ye immortal choir! (Semele & Ino) 01:57
28. Act III: Somnus, awake! (Juno) 02:25
29. Act III: Leave me, loathsome light! (Somnus) 04:32
30. Act III: More sweet is that name (Somnus) 04:13
31. Act III: Obey my will (Juno) 02:17
32. Act III: My racking thoughts (Semele) 02:52
33. Act III: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno) 01:38
34. Act III: O ecstasy of happiness! (Semele) 08:07
35. Act III: Conjure him by his oath (Juno) 01:21
36. Act III: Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Semele) 03:13
37. Act III: Come to my arms (Jupiter) 02:50
38. Act III: I ever am grantig (Semele) 03:10
39. Act III: Ah, take heed what you press! (Jupiter) 01:13
40. Act III: No, no, i'll take no less (Jupiter) 05:10
41. Act III: Ah, ehither is she gone! (Jupiter) 03:20
42. Act III: Above measure is the pleasure (Juno) 02:27
43. Act III: Ah, me! too late i now repent (Semele) 03:22
44. Act III: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino) 04:11
45. Act III: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus) 02:31
46. Act III: Happy, happy shall we be (Chorus) 03:13

Jupiter - Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Cadmus - Robert Lloyd (bass)
Athamas - Timothy Penrose (contre-tenor)
Somnus - Daviv Thomas (bass)
Apollo - Maldwyn Davies (tenor)
Juno - Delia Thomas (mezzo-soprano)
Iris - Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
Semele - Norma Burrowes (soprano)
Ino - Catherine Denley (contralto)
Cupid - Elisabeth Friday (soprano)
Monteverdi Chor
The English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Запись 1981