Battle (Kathleen), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Ramey (Samuel), Aylor (John), English Chamber Orchestra, Hegedusch (Olga), Betge (Dietrich), Wilson (Ian), Newman (Anthony); Dorothy) - Handel: Oratorio "Semele" Records Mail Order RECORD CITY Japan

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Battle (Kathleen), Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Ramey (Samuel), Aylor (John), English Chamber Orchestra, Hegedusch (Olga), Betge (Dietrich), Wilson (Ian), Newman (Anthony); Dorothy)

Handel: Oratorio "Semele"

Deutsche Grammophon POCG1676

Japan

JP￥2980

Item Number	:	1987494
Number of discs	:	3
Approx. year	:	1993
Genre	:	Classical
Styles	:	Baroque, Oratorio
Catalog number	:	POCG1676
Barcode	:	4988005124135
Condition	:	Excellent (EX)
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77 TRACKS:
1-1)		- Ouverture — Gavotte
1-10)		- Quartetto: "Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve"
1-11)		- Chorus: "Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!"
1-12)		- Accompagnato: "Again Auspicious Flashes Rise"
1-13)		- Recitative: "Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!"
1-14)		- Chorus: "Cease, Cease Your Vows, 'Tis Impious To Proceed"
1-15)		- Recitative: "O Athama, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!"
1-16)		- Air: "Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes"
1-17)		- Recitative: "She Weeps!"
1-18)		- Air: "Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell"
1-19)		- Recitative: "Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me"
1-2)		- Accompagnato: "Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise!"
1-20)		- Duetto: "You've Undone Me" / "With My Life I Would Atone
1-21)		- Recitative: "Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd To Disastrous Love!" Accompagnato: "Wing'd With Our Fears And Pious Haste" Recitative: "O Prodigy, To Me Of Dire Portent!" Recitative: "See, See, Jove
1-22)		- Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, Hail!"
1-23)		- Air And Chorus: "Endless Pleasure, Endless Love"
1-3)		- Chorus: "Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites"
1-4)		- Recitative And Arioso: "Daughter, Obey, Hear And Obey!"
1-5)		- Accompagnato: "Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?" Air: "O Jove! In Pity Teach Me Which To Choose"
1-6)		- Air: "The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note"
1-7)		- Recitative: "See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes"
1-8)		- Air: "Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare"
1-9)		- Recitative: "Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me"
2-1)		- Sinfonia
2-10)		- Air: "With Fond Desiring"
2-11)		- Chorus: "How Engaging, How Endearing"
2-12)		- Recitative: "Ah Me!" / "Why Sighs My Semele?"
2-13)		- Air: "I Must With Speed Amuse Her"
2-14)		- Chorus: "Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites"
2-15)		- Recitative: "By My Command"
2-16)		- Air: "Where're You Walk"
2-17)		- Recitative: "Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?"
2-18)		- Air: "But Hark! The Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round"
2-19)		- Duetto: "Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir"
2-2)		- Recitative: "Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay"
2-20)		- Chorus: "Bless The Glad Earth With Heav'nly Lays"
2-3)		- Air: "There From Mortal Cares Retiring"
2-4)		- Recitative: "No More — I'll Hear No More!" Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia From Thy Lethargy!"
2-5)		- Air: "Hence, Iris, Hence Away"
2-6)		- Air: "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?"
2-7)		- Recitative: "Let Me Not Another Moment Bear The Pangs Of Absence"
2-8)		- Air: "Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside"
2-9)		- Recitative: "You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest"
3-1)		- [Symphony] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto
3-10)		- Air: "Behold In This Mirror"
3-11)		- Recitative: "O Ecstasy Of Happiness"
3-12)		- Air: "Myself I Shall Adore"
3-13)		- Recitative: "Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful"
3-14)		- Accompagnato: "Conjure Him By His Oath"
3-15)		- Air: "Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid"
3-16)		- Recitative: "Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air"
3-17)		- Air: "Come To My Arms, My Lovely Fair"
3-18)		- Recitative: "O Semele! Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?" Air: "I Ever Am Granting, You Always Complain"
3-19)		- Recitative: "Speak, Speak Your Desire"
3-2)		- Accompagnato: "Somnus, Awake, Raise Thy Reclining Head!"
3-20)		- Accompagnato: "By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear"
3-21)		- Recitative: "You'll Grant What I Require?" Accompagnato: "Then Cast Off This Human Shape"
3-22)		- Air: "Ah, Take Heed What You Press"
3-23)		- Air: "No, No! I'll Take No Less"
3-24)		- Accompagnato: "Ah! Whither Is She Gone!"
3-25)		- Air: "Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies"
3-26)		- Accompagnato: "Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent"
3-27)		- Recitative: "Of My Ill-Boding Dream"
3-28)		- Chorus: "Oh, Terror And Astonishment!"
3-29)		- Recitative: "How I Was Hence Remov'd"
3-3)		- Air: "Leave Me, Loathsome Light"
3-30)		- Air: "Despair No More Shall Wound Me"
3-31)		- Recitative: "See From Above The Bellying Clouds Descend"
3-32)		- Sinfonia
3-33)		- Accompagnato: "Apollo Comes, To Relieve Your Care"
3-34)		- Chorus: "Happy, Happy Shall We Be"
3-4)		- Recitative: "Dull God, Canst Thou Attend The Water's Fall"
3-5)		- Air: "More Sweet Is That Name"
3-6)		- Recitative: "My Will Obey, She Shall Be Thine"
3-7)		- Duetto: "Obey My Will" / "All I Must Grant"
3-8)		- Air: "My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed"
3-9)		- Recitative: "Thus Shap'd Like Ino"