Semele HWV 58

• Overture
  04:56
• Gavotte
  01:44

Act I

• 1. Accompagnato 'Behold! Auspicious flashes rise' (High Priest)
  01:32
• 2. Chorus ‘Lucky omens bless our rites’
  03:14
• 3. Recitative, Arioso and Duet ‘Daughter, obey’ (Cadmus, Athamas)
  01:01
• 4. Recitative ‘Ah me!’ (Semele)
  01:01
• 5. Air ‘O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose’ (Semele)
  01:57
• 6. Recitative ‘Alas! she yields’ (Ino, Athamas)
  00:44
• 7. Quartet ‘Why dost thou thus untimely grieve’ (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  02:59
• 8. Chorus ‘Avert these omens, all ye pow’rs’
  02:02
• 9. Recitative ‘Again auspicious flashes rise’ (Athamas) – Recitative ‘Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!’ (Athamas, Semele)
  01:00
• 10. Chorus ‘Cease, cease your vows, ’tis impious to proceed’
  00:33
• 11. Recitative ‘Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes (Ino) – Recitative ‘She weeps!’ (Athamas)
  00:44
• 12. Air ‘Your tuneful voice my tale would tell’ (Athamas)
  04:41
• 13. Recitative ‘Too well I see’ (Ino, Athamas)
  00:47
• 14. Duet ‘You’ve undone me’ (Ino, Athamas)
  02:37
• 15. Recitative ‘Ah! wreched prince, doom’d to disastrous love!’ (Cadmus, Athamas) – Accompagnato ‘Wing’d with our fears and pious hate’ (Cadmus)
  00:34
• 16. Chorus ‘Hail Cadmus, hail!’
  01:23
• 17. Air and Chorus ‘Endless pleasure, endless love’ (Augur, Chorus)
  05:35

Act II

• 1. Sinfonia
  01:31
• 2. Recitative ‘Iris, impatient of thy stay’ (Juno, Iris)
  00:47
• 3. Air ‘There, from mortal cares retiring’ (Iris) – Recitative ‘No more, I’ll hear no more’ (Juno)
  02:54
• 4. Accompagnato ‘Awake, Saturnia, from thy lehargy!’ (Juno) – Recitative ‘Hear, mighty queen, while I recount’ (Iris) – Accompagnato ‘With adamant the gates are barr’d’ (Iris)
  01:49
• 5. Air ‘Hence, Iris, hence away’ (Juno)
  03:34
• 6. Air ‘Come, zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings’ (Cupid)
  05:40
• 7. Air ‘O sleep, why dost thou leave me’ (Semele)
  03:22
• 8. Recitative ‘Let me not another moment’ (Semele)
  00:18
• 9. Air ‘Lay your doubts and fears aside’ (Jupiter)
  03:09
• 10. Recitative ‘You are mortal and require’ (Jupiter)
  00:26
• 11. Air ‘With fond desiring’ (Semele)
  02:56
• 12. Chorus ‘How engaging, how endearing’
  02:49
• 13. Recitative ‘Ah, me!’ – ‘Why sighs my Semele?’ (Semele, Jupiter)
  01:09
• 14. Air ‘I must with speed amuse her’ (Jupiter)
  03:48
• 15. Chorus ‘Now Love that everlasting boy invites’
  02:19
• 16. Recitative ‘By my command’ (Jupiter, Semele)
  01:15
• 17. Air ‘Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade’ (Jupiter)
  05:25
• 18. Recitative ‘Dear sister, how was your passage hither?’ (Semele, Ino)
  00:53
• 19. Air ‘But hark! the heav’nly sphere turns round’ (Ino)
  01:53
• 20. Duet ‘Prepare then, ye immortal choir’ (Semele, Ino)
  02:09
• 21. Chorus ‘Bless the glad earth with heav’nly lays’
  02:47

Act III

• 1. Sinfonia
  01:38
• 2. Accompagnato ‘Somnus, awake’ (Juno, Iris)
  00:30
• 3. Air ‘Leave me, loathsome light’ (Somnus)
  03:39
• 4. Recitative ‘Dull God, canst thou attend the water’s fall’ (Iris, Juno)
  00:34
• 5. Air ‘More sweet is that name’ (Somnus)
  02:28
• 6. Recitative ‘My will obey’ (Juno, Somnus)
  01:21
• 7. Duet ‘Obey my will, thy rod resign’ (Juno, Somnus)
  02:04
• 8. Air ‘My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed’ (Semele)
  03:11
• 9. Recitative ‘Thus shap’d like Ino’ (Juno, Semele)
  01:33
• 10. Air ‘Myself I shall adore’ (Semele)
  06:39
• 11. Recitative ‘Be wise as you are beautiful’ (Juno, Semele) – Accompagnato ‘Conjure him by his oath’ (Juno)
  01:43
• 12. Air ‘Thus let my thanks be paid’ (Semele)
  02:46
• 13. Recitative ‘Rich odours fill the fragrant air’ (Juno, Semele)
  00:25
• 14. Air ‘Come to my arms, my lovely fair’ (Jupiter)
  03:33
• 15. Recitative ‘O Semele!’ (Jupiter) – Air ‘I ever am granting’ (Semele)
  01:41
• 16. Recitative ‘Speak, speak your desire’ (Jupiter, Semele) – Accompagnato ‘By that tremendous flood, I swear’ (Jupiter) – Recitative ‘You’ll grant what I require?’ (Semele, Jupiter) – Accompagnato ‘Then cast off this human shape which you wear’ (Semele)
  01:09
• 17. Air ‘Ah, take heed what you press’ (Jupiter)
  01:04
• 18. Air ‘No, no, I’ll take no less’ (Semele)
  04:45
• 19. Accompagnato ‘Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?’ (Jupiter)
  03:22
• 20. Air ‘Above measure’ (Juno)
  02:10
• 21. Accompagnato ‘Ah me! Too late I now repent’ (Semele)
  03:26
• 22. Chorus ‘O terror and astonishment!’
  04:17
• 23. Recitative ‘How I was hence remov’d’ (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
  00:46
• 24. Air ‘Despair no more shall wound me’ (Athamas)
  04:59
• 25. Recitative ‘See from above the bellying clouds descend’ (Cadmus)
  00:18
• 26. Sinfonia
  01:44
• 27. Accompagnato ‘Apollo comes, to relieve your care’ (Apollo)
  00:53
• 28. Chorus ‘Happy, happy shall we be’
  03:07