Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Semele, HWV 58 (2020) CD-Rip
BAND/ARTIST: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Eliot Gardiner
- Title: Handel: Semele, HWV 58
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Monteverdi Production Ltd SDG733
- Genre: Classical oratorio
- Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
- Total Time: 02:35:12
- Total Size: 801 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
CD1
Act I
1 4:56 Overture
2 1:44 Gavotte
3 1:32 Accompagnato: ‘Behold! Auspicious flashes rise’ (High Priest)
4 3:14 Chorus: ‘Lucky omens bless our rites’
5 1:01 Recit., arioso and duet: ‘Daughter, obey’ (Cadmus, Athamas)
6 1:01 Recit.: ‘Ah me!’ (Semele)
7 1:57 Air: ‘O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose’ (Semele)
8 0:44 Recit.: ‘Alas! she yields’ (Ino, Athamas)
9 2:59 Quartet: ‘Why dost thou thus untimely grieve’ (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas,
Semele)
10 2:02 Chorus: ‘Avert these omens, all ye pow’rs’
11 1:00 Recit.: ‘Again auspicious flashes rise’ (Athamas) – Recit.: ‘Thy aid, pronubial
Juno, Athamas implores!’ (Athamas, Semele)
12 0:33 Chorus: ‘Cease, cease your vows, ’tis impious to proceed’
13 0:44 Recit.: ‘Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes (Ino) – Recit.: ‘She weeps!’
(Athamas)
14 4:41 Air: ‘Your tuneful voice my tale would tell’ (Athamas)
15 0:47 Recit.: ‘Too well I see’ (Ino, Athamas)
16 2:37 Duet: ‘You’ve undone me’ (Ino, Athamas)
17 0:34 Recit.: ‘Ah! wreched prince, doom’d to disastrous love!’ (Cadmus, Athamas)
– Accompagnato: ‘Wing’d with our fears and pious hate’ (Cadmus)
18 1:23 Chorus: ‘Hail Cadmus, hail!’
19 5:35 Air and chorus: ‘Endless pleasure, endless love’ (Augur, Chorus)
CD2
Act II
1 1:31 Sinfonia
2 0:47 Recit.: ‘Iris, impatient of thy stay’ (Juno, Iris)
3 2:54 Air: ‘There, from mortal cares retiring’ (Iris) – Recit.: ‘No more, I’ll hear no
more’ (Juno)
4 1:49 Accompagnato: ‘Awake, Saturnia, from thy lehargy!’ (Juno) – Recit.: ‘Hear,
mighty queen, while I recount’ (Iris) – Accompagnato: ‘With adamant the
gates are barr’d’ (Iris)
5 3:34 Air: ‘Hence, Iris, hence away’ (Juno)
6 5:40 Air: ‘Come, zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings’ (Cupid)
7 3:22 Air: ‘O sleep, why dost thou leave me’ (Semele)
8 0:18 Recit.: ‘Let me not another moment’ (Semele)
9 3:09 Air: ‘Lay your doubts and fears aside’ (Jupiter)
10 0:25 Recit.: ‘You are mortal and require’ (Jupiter)
11 2:56 Air: ‘With fond desiring’ (Semele)
12 2:49 Chorus: ‘How engaging, how endearing’
13 1:09 Recit.: ‘Ah, me!’ – ‘Why sighs my Semele?’ (Semele, Jupiter)
14 3:48 Air: ‘I must with speed amuse her’ (Jupiter)
15 2:19 Chorus: ‘Now Love that everlasting boy invites’
16 1:15 Reict.: ‘By my command’ (Jupiter, Semele)
17 5:25 Air: ‘Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade’ (Jupiter)
18 0:53 Recit.: ‘Dear sister, how was your passage hither?’ (Semele, Ino)
19 1:53 Air: ‘But hark! the heav’nly sphere turns round’ (Ino)
20 2:09 Duet: ‘Prepare then, ye immortal choir’ (Semele, Ino)
21 2:47 Chorus: ‘Bless the glad earth with heav’nly lays’
CD3
Act III
1 1:38 Sinfonia
2 0:30 Accompagnato: ‘Somnus, awake’ (Juno, Iris)
3 3:39 Air: ‘Leave me, loathsome light’ (Somnus)
4 0:34 Recit.: ‘Dull God, canst thou attend the water’s fall’ (Iris, Juno)
5 2:28 Air: ‘More sweet is that name’ (Somnus)
6 1:21 Recit.: ‘My will obey’ (Juno, Somnus)
7 2:04 Duet: ‘Obey my will, thy rod resign’ (Juno, Somnus)
8 3:11 Air: ‘My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed’ (Semele)
9 1:33 Recit.: ‘Thus shap’d like Ino’ (Juno, Semele)
10 6:39 Air: ‘Myself I shall adore’ (Semele)
11 1:43 Recit.: ‘Be wise as you are beautiful’ (Juno, Semele) – Accompagnato:
‘Conjure him by his oath’ (Juno)
12 2:46 Air: ‘Thus let my thanks be paid’ (Semele)
13 0:25 Recit.: ‘Rich odours fill the fragrant air’ (Juno, Semele)
14 3:33 Air: ‘Come to my arms, my lovely fair’ (Jupiter)
15 1:41 Recit.: ‘O Semele!’ (Jupiter) – Air: ‘I ever am granting’ (Semele)
16 1:09 Recit.: ‘Speak, speak your desire’ (Jupiter, Semele) – Accompagnato:
‘By that tremendous flood, I swear’ (Jupiter) – Recit.: ‘You’ll grant what
I require?’ (Semele, Jupiter) – Accompagnato: ‘Then cast off this human
shape which you wear’ (Semele)
17 1:04 Air: ‘Ah, take heed what you press’ (Jupiter)
18 4:45 Air: ‘No, no, I’ll take no less’ (Semele)
19 3:22 Accompagnato: ‘Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?’ (Jupiter)
20 2:10 Air: ‘Above measure’ (Juno)
21 3:26 Accompagnato: ‘Ah me! Too late I now repent’ (Semele)
22 4:17 Chorus: ‘O terror and astonishment!’
23 0:46 Recit.: ‘How I was hence remov’d’ (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
24 4:59 Air: ‘Despair no more shall wound me’ (Athamas)
25 0:18 Recit.: ‘See from above the bellying clouds descend’ (Cadmus)
26 1:44 Sinfonia
27 0:53 Accompagnato: ‘Apollo comes, to relieve your care’ (Apollo)
28 3:07 Chorus: ‘Happy, happy shall we be’
CD1
Act I
1 4:56 Overture
2 1:44 Gavotte
3 1:32 Accompagnato: ‘Behold! Auspicious flashes rise’ (High Priest)
4 3:14 Chorus: ‘Lucky omens bless our rites’
5 1:01 Recit., arioso and duet: ‘Daughter, obey’ (Cadmus, Athamas)
6 1:01 Recit.: ‘Ah me!’ (Semele)
7 1:57 Air: ‘O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose’ (Semele)
8 0:44 Recit.: ‘Alas! she yields’ (Ino, Athamas)
9 2:59 Quartet: ‘Why dost thou thus untimely grieve’ (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas,
Semele)
10 2:02 Chorus: ‘Avert these omens, all ye pow’rs’
11 1:00 Recit.: ‘Again auspicious flashes rise’ (Athamas) – Recit.: ‘Thy aid, pronubial
Juno, Athamas implores!’ (Athamas, Semele)
12 0:33 Chorus: ‘Cease, cease your vows, ’tis impious to proceed’
13 0:44 Recit.: ‘Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes (Ino) – Recit.: ‘She weeps!’
(Athamas)
14 4:41 Air: ‘Your tuneful voice my tale would tell’ (Athamas)
15 0:47 Recit.: ‘Too well I see’ (Ino, Athamas)
16 2:37 Duet: ‘You’ve undone me’ (Ino, Athamas)
17 0:34 Recit.: ‘Ah! wreched prince, doom’d to disastrous love!’ (Cadmus, Athamas)
– Accompagnato: ‘Wing’d with our fears and pious hate’ (Cadmus)
18 1:23 Chorus: ‘Hail Cadmus, hail!’
19 5:35 Air and chorus: ‘Endless pleasure, endless love’ (Augur, Chorus)
CD2
Act II
1 1:31 Sinfonia
2 0:47 Recit.: ‘Iris, impatient of thy stay’ (Juno, Iris)
3 2:54 Air: ‘There, from mortal cares retiring’ (Iris) – Recit.: ‘No more, I’ll hear no
more’ (Juno)
4 1:49 Accompagnato: ‘Awake, Saturnia, from thy lehargy!’ (Juno) – Recit.: ‘Hear,
mighty queen, while I recount’ (Iris) – Accompagnato: ‘With adamant the
gates are barr’d’ (Iris)
5 3:34 Air: ‘Hence, Iris, hence away’ (Juno)
6 5:40 Air: ‘Come, zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings’ (Cupid)
7 3:22 Air: ‘O sleep, why dost thou leave me’ (Semele)
8 0:18 Recit.: ‘Let me not another moment’ (Semele)
9 3:09 Air: ‘Lay your doubts and fears aside’ (Jupiter)
10 0:25 Recit.: ‘You are mortal and require’ (Jupiter)
11 2:56 Air: ‘With fond desiring’ (Semele)
12 2:49 Chorus: ‘How engaging, how endearing’
13 1:09 Recit.: ‘Ah, me!’ – ‘Why sighs my Semele?’ (Semele, Jupiter)
14 3:48 Air: ‘I must with speed amuse her’ (Jupiter)
15 2:19 Chorus: ‘Now Love that everlasting boy invites’
16 1:15 Reict.: ‘By my command’ (Jupiter, Semele)
17 5:25 Air: ‘Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade’ (Jupiter)
18 0:53 Recit.: ‘Dear sister, how was your passage hither?’ (Semele, Ino)
19 1:53 Air: ‘But hark! the heav’nly sphere turns round’ (Ino)
20 2:09 Duet: ‘Prepare then, ye immortal choir’ (Semele, Ino)
21 2:47 Chorus: ‘Bless the glad earth with heav’nly lays’
CD3
Act III
1 1:38 Sinfonia
2 0:30 Accompagnato: ‘Somnus, awake’ (Juno, Iris)
3 3:39 Air: ‘Leave me, loathsome light’ (Somnus)
4 0:34 Recit.: ‘Dull God, canst thou attend the water’s fall’ (Iris, Juno)
5 2:28 Air: ‘More sweet is that name’ (Somnus)
6 1:21 Recit.: ‘My will obey’ (Juno, Somnus)
7 2:04 Duet: ‘Obey my will, thy rod resign’ (Juno, Somnus)
8 3:11 Air: ‘My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed’ (Semele)
9 1:33 Recit.: ‘Thus shap’d like Ino’ (Juno, Semele)
10 6:39 Air: ‘Myself I shall adore’ (Semele)
11 1:43 Recit.: ‘Be wise as you are beautiful’ (Juno, Semele) – Accompagnato:
‘Conjure him by his oath’ (Juno)
12 2:46 Air: ‘Thus let my thanks be paid’ (Semele)
13 0:25 Recit.: ‘Rich odours fill the fragrant air’ (Juno, Semele)
14 3:33 Air: ‘Come to my arms, my lovely fair’ (Jupiter)
15 1:41 Recit.: ‘O Semele!’ (Jupiter) – Air: ‘I ever am granting’ (Semele)
16 1:09 Recit.: ‘Speak, speak your desire’ (Jupiter, Semele) – Accompagnato:
‘By that tremendous flood, I swear’ (Jupiter) – Recit.: ‘You’ll grant what
I require?’ (Semele, Jupiter) – Accompagnato: ‘Then cast off this human
shape which you wear’ (Semele)
17 1:04 Air: ‘Ah, take heed what you press’ (Jupiter)
18 4:45 Air: ‘No, no, I’ll take no less’ (Semele)
19 3:22 Accompagnato: ‘Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?’ (Jupiter)
20 2:10 Air: ‘Above measure’ (Juno)
21 3:26 Accompagnato: ‘Ah me! Too late I now repent’ (Semele)
22 4:17 Chorus: ‘O terror and astonishment!’
23 0:46 Recit.: ‘How I was hence remov’d’ (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
24 4:59 Air: ‘Despair no more shall wound me’ (Athamas)
25 0:18 Recit.: ‘See from above the bellying clouds descend’ (Cadmus)
26 1:44 Sinfonia
27 0:53 Accompagnato: ‘Apollo comes, to relieve your care’ (Apollo)
28 3:07 Chorus: ‘Happy, happy shall we be’
In Spring 2019, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, led by John Eliot Gardiner, presented a critically-acclaimed European tour of Handels opera 'Semele', including Alexandra Palace Theatre in London, where this live recording took place. Semele had not been performed by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi ensembles since they originally recorded it in the 1980s and this recording gives listeners the chance to hear a fuller version of the work. A glamorous team of young soloists joins the Monteverdi ensembles to bring the story of Semele to life, including celebrated English soprano Louise Alder, who takes on the title role, with the young tenor Hugo Hymas portraying the amorous Jupiter. ""Semeles musical score is a glorious blend of irresistible solo arias - some virtuosic showstoppers, others lyrical, sensual and evocative, ensembles, duets, accompanied recitatives and (unlike his operas) imposing choruses. Still more than when I first performed it and recorded it almost forty years ago, I feel Semeles time has finally come."" (John Eliot Gardiner)
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE | CD-Rip
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