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Title: Semele
Artist: Christian Curnyn
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115074527
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Release Date: 2008-01-15
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: BOXED SET



Tracks:
1.1 No.1 Ouverture
1.2 Allegro - Adagio -
1.3 Gavotte
1.4 No.2 Cadmus: 'Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise!'
1.5 No.3 Chorus: 'Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites'
1.6 No.4 Cadmus: 'Daughter, Obey'
1.7 No.5 Semele: 'Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?'
1.8 No.6 Semele: 'The Morning Lark to Mine Accords His Note'
1.9 No.7 Athamus: 'See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes'
1.10 No.8 Athamus: 'Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare'
1.11 No.9 Ino: 'Alas! She Yields'
1.12 No.10 Cadmus: 'Why Does Thou Thus Untimely Grieve'
1.13 No.11 Chorus: 'Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!'
1.14 No.12 Cadmus: 'Again Auspicious Flashes Rise'
1.15 No.13 Athamus: 'Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamus Implores'
1.16 No.14 Chorus: 'Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious to Proceed'
1.17 No.15 Athamus: 'O Athamus, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!'
1.18 No.16 Ino: 'Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes'
1.19 No.17 Athamus: 'She Weeps! the Gentle Maid, in Tender Pity'
1.20 No.18 Athamus: 'Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell'
1.21 No.19 Ino: 'Too Well I See'
1.22 No.20 Ino: 'You've Undone Me'
1.23 Medley: No.21 Cadmus: 'Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!'/Cadmus: 'See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come'
1.24 No.22 Chorus: 'Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salues the Theban King!'
1.25 No.23 Semele: 'Endless Pleasure, Endless Love'
2.1 No.24 Sinfonia - Presto
2.2 No.25 Juno: 'Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay'
2.3 No.26 Iris: 'There, from Mortal Cares Retiring'
2.4 No.27 Juno: 'No More - I'll Hear No More'
2.5 No.28 Juno: 'Hence, Iris, Hence Away'
2.6 No.30 Semele: 'O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?'
2.7 No.31 Semele: 'Let Me Not Another Moment'
2.8 No.32 Jupiter: 'Lay Your Doubts and Fears Aside'
2.9 No.33 Jupiter: 'You Are Mortal, and Require'
2.10 No.34 Semele: 'With Fond Desiring'
2.11 No.35 Chorus: 'How Engaging, How Endearing'
2.12 Medley: No.36 Semele: 'Ah Me!'/Jupiter: 'Why Sighs My Semele?'
2.13 No.37 Jupiter: 'I Must with Speed Amuse Her'
2.14 No.38 Chorus: 'Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites'
2.15 No.39 Jupiter: 'By My Command'
2.16 No.40 Jupiter: 'Where'er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan the Glade'
2.17 No. 41 Semele: 'Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?'
2.18 No.42 Ino: 'But Hark! the Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round'
2.19 No.43 Ino and Semele: 'Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir'
2.20 No.44 Chorus: 'Bless the Glad Earth with Heav'nly Lays'
3.1 No.45 [Sinfonia] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto
3.2 No.46 Juno: 'Somnus, Awake'
3.3 No.47 Somnus: 'Leave Me, Loathsome Light'
3.4 No.48 Iris: 'Dull God, Canst Thou Attend the Water's Fall'
3.5 No.49 Somnus: 'More Sweet Is That Name'
3.6 No.50 Juno: 'My Will Obey'
3.7 No.51 Juno: 'Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign'
3.8 No.52 Semele: 'My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed'
3.9 No.53 Juno: 'Thus Shap'd Like Ino'
3.10 No.54 Semele: 'Myself I Shall Adore'
3.11 No.55 Juno: 'Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful'
3.12 No.56 Semele: 'Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid'
3.13 No.57 Juno: 'Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air'
3.14 No.58 Jupiter: 'Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair'
3.15 No.59 Jupiter: 'O Semele'
3.16 No.60 Semele: 'I Ever Am Granting'
3.17 No.61 Jupiter: 'Speak, Speak Your Desire'
3.18 No.62 Semele: 'You'll Grant What I Require'
3.19 No.63 Semele: 'Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear'
3.20 No.64 Jupiter: 'Ah, Take Heed What You Press'
3.21 No.65 Semele: 'No, No! I'll Take No Less'
3.22 No.66 Jupiter: 'Ah! Whither Is She Gone! Unhappy Fair!'
3.23 No.67 Juno: 'Above Measure'
3.24 No.68 Semele: 'Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent'
3.25 No.69 Ino: 'Of My Ill-Boding Dream'
3.26 No.70 Chorus: 'O Terror and Astonishment!'
3.27 No.71 Ino: 'How I Was Hence Remov'd'
3.28 No.72 Athamus: 'Despair No More Shall Wound Me'
3.29 No.73 Cadmus: 'See from Above the Bellying Clouds Descend'
3.30 No.74 Sinfonia
3.31 No.75 Apollo: 'Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care'
3.32 No.76 All: 'Happy, Happy Shall We Be'