George Frideric Handel
Semele

Semele Kathleen Battle
Juno/Ino Marilyn Horne
Cadmus/Somnus Samuel Ramey
Jupiter Rockwell Blake
Athamus Jeffrey Gall
Iris Sylvia McNair
Apollo Walter Macneil
Priest James Patterson

Orchestra of St. Lukes
Gala Handel Opera Chorus

John Nelson

Carnegie Hall
February 23, 1985

 

live

CD 1 63.31
1. Overture
Act 1
2. Behold! auspicious flashes arise
3. Lucky omens bless our rites
4. Daughter, obey
5. Ah! me! - O Jove!
6. The morning lark to mine accords his note
7. See she blushing turns her eyes
8. Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare
9. Alas! she yields, and has undone me
10. Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?
11. Avert these omens
12. Again auspicious flashes rise
13. Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!
14. Cease your vows
15. O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!
16. Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes
17. Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
18. You've undone me
19. Hail Cadmus!
20. Endless pleasure...

CD 2 47.18
Act 2
1. Overture
2. Iris, impatient of thy stay
3. There from mortal cares retiring
4. Hence, Iris, hence away
5. Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
6. Lay your doubts and fears aside
7. You are mortal and require time to rest
8. With fond desiring
9. How engaging, how endearing
10. Ah me! why sighs my Semele!
11. I must with speed amuse her
12. Now Love that everlasting boy invites
13. By my command
14. Where'er you walk
15. Dear Sister
16. But hark! The Heavenly Sphere
17. Prepare then, ye immortal choir
18. Bless the glad earth

 

CD 3
Act 3 72.11
1. Somnus, awake
2. Leave me, loathsome light
3. Dull God
4. More sweet is that name
5. My will obey
6. Obey my will
7. My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed
8. Thus shap'd like Ino
9. Behold this mirror
10. O ecstasy of happiness
11. Myself I shall adore
12. Be wise, as you are beautiful
13. Thus let my thanks be pay'd
14. Come to my arms
15. O Semele!
16. I ever am granting
17. Speak what you desire
18. Ah, take heed
19. No, no, I'll take no less
20. Ah, whither is she gone?
21. Above measure is the pleasure
22. Ah me, too late I now repent
23. Oh, terror and astonishment
24. How I was hence remov'd
25. Despair no more shall wound me
26. See from above the belling clouds descend
27. Sinfonia
28. Appolo comes, to relieve your care
29. Happy shall we be
　
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