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Handel: Semele by Norma Burrowes

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• Artist:Norma Burrowes
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: Erato Libretto
• Released: 26 April 1993
• Barcode: 0022924598227
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• • Overture
  • Priest : 'Behold! Auspicious flashes rise'
  • Chorus : 'Lucky omens bless our rites'
  • Semele : 'Ah, me!'
  • Cadmus : 'Why dost thoughthus untimely grieve?'
  • Chorus of Priests : 'Avert these omens'
  • Chorus of Priests : 'Cease, cease your vows'
  • Athamas : 'Oh, Athamus; what torture hst thou borne!'
  • Ino : 'You've undone me'
  • Cadmus : 'Ah, wretched prince'
  • Cadmus : 'See, see!'
  • Semele : 'Endless pleasure'
  • Chorus : 'Endless pleasure'
  • Sinfonia
  • Juno : 'Iris, impatient of thy stay'
  • Iris : 'Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands'
  • Juno: 'Hence, Iris, hence away!'
  • Cupid : 'Come, Zephyrs, come'
  • Semele : 'Let me not another moment'
  • Jupiter : 'Lay your doubts'
  • Semele : 'With fond desiring'
  • Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs : 'How engaging'
  • Jupiter : 'Too well I read her meaning'
  • Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs : 'Now love'
  • Jupiter : 'By my command'
  • Jupiter : 'See, she appears'
  • Semele : 'Dear sister, how was your journey hither?'
  • Semele & Ino : 'Prepare then, ye immortal choir!'
  • Chorus : 'Bless the glad earth'
  • Juno : 'Somnus, awake!'
  • Somnus : 'Leave me, loathsome light!'
  • Somnus : 'More sweet is that name'
  • Juno : 'Obey my will'
  • Semele : 'My racking thoughts'
  • Juno : 'Thus shap'd like Ino'
  • Semele : 'O ecstasy of happiness!'
  • Juno : 'Conjure him by his oath'
  • Semele : 'Thus let my thanks be pay'd'
  • Jupiter : 'Come to my arms'
  • Semele : 'I ever am granting'
  • Jupiter : 'Ah, take heed what you press!'
  • Semele : 'No, no, I'll take no less'
  • Jupiter : 'Ah, whither is she gone!'
  • Juno : 'Above measure is the pleasure'
  • Semele : 'Ah, me! too late I now repent'
  • Ino : 'Of my ill-boding dream'
  • Cadmus : 'See from above the bellying clouds descend'
  • Chorus : 'Happy, happy shall we be'