Handel: Semele

Handel: Semele

by Johannes Somary
Handel: Semele

Handel: Semele

by Johannes Somary

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Product Details

Release Date: 10/09/2007
Label: Alto
UPC: 0894640001738
Rank: 167199

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Overture
  2. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative. Behold, auspicious flashes rise...
  3. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Lucky omens bless our rites
  4. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative, Arioso & Duet. Daughter, obey
  5. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative & Aria. Ah me...
  6. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative. Alas! she yields / Quartet response
  7. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Avert these omens
  8. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative. Again, auspicious flashes...
  9. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 3. Recitative & Aria. Ah, wretched prince...
  10. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 4. Recitative. See, see
  11. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 1. Scene 4. Aria. Endless pleasure
  12. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Sinfonia
  13. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 1. Recitative & Aria. Awake Saturnia
  14. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 2. Aria. Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
  15. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 3. Aria. Let me not another moment
  16. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 3. Recitative. You are mortal
  17. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 3. Recitative. Ah, me / Aria. Why sigh
  18. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 3. Now love, that everlasting boy invites
  19. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 3. Recitative & Aria. By my command... Where'er you walk
  20. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 4. Recitative & Aria. Dear Sister, how was your journey hither?

Disc 2

  1. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 4. Duet. Prepare then, ye immortal choir
  2. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 2. Scene 4. Bless the glad earth
  3. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Sinfonia
  4. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 1. Recitative & Aria. Somnus awake
  5. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 1. Recitative. Dull God, canst thou attend / Aria
  6. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 1. Recitative. My will obey
  7. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 3. Aria. Myself I shall adore
  8. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 3. Recitative & Aria. Be wise, as you are beautiful...
  9. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 3. Recitative & Aria. Rich odours fill the fragrant air...
  10. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 4. Recitative. Oh Semele
  11. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 4. Recitative & Aria. Speak, speak your desire
  12. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 4. Aria. No, no, I'll take no less
  13. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 5. Aria. Ah, wither is she gone?
  14. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 6. Aria. Above measure is the pleasure
  15. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 7. Aria. Ah, me! Too late I now repent
  16. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene 8. Recitative. Of my ill-boding dream
  17. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene, the last. Sinfonia
  18. Semele, oratorio, HWV 58~Act 3. Scene, the last. Recitative & Aria. Apollo comes... Happy, happy

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johannes Somary   Primary Artist,Conductor
Edgar Fleet   Tenor (Vocal)
Felicity Palmer   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal),Soprano (Vocal)
Helen Watts   Contralto (Vocal)
Justino Diaz   Bass (Vocal)
Mark Deller   Counter Tenor (Vocal)
Harold Lester   Harpsichord,Organ
Sheila Armstrong   Soprano (Vocal)
English Chamber Orchestra   Orchestra
Neilson Taylor   Bass (Vocal)
Robert Tear   Tenor (Vocal)
Amor Artis Chamber Choir   Choir/Chorus

Technical Credits

William Congreve   Librettist
Felicity Palmer   Unknown Contributor Role
Robin Vaughan   Project Coordinator
Helen Watts   Unknown Contributor Role
John McCarthy   Unknown Contributor Role
James Murray   Liner Notes,Synopsis
Seymour Solomon   Producer,Original Album Producer
Mark Deller   Unknown Contributor Role
Paul Arden Taylor   Engineer
Fred Holtz   Art Direction
English Chamber Orchestra   Unknown Contributor Role
Katherine Miller   Unknown Contributor Role,Digital Remastering
J. Merrill Knapp   Liner Notes
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