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)
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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’
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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’
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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) SEMELE Oratorio in three acts. Based on a pre-existent opera libretto by William Congreve, HWV 58 First presented in concert form at Covent Garden theatre on 10 February 1744 Louise Alder, soprano (Semele) Hugo Hymas, tenor (Jupiter) Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano (Juno / Ino) Carlo Vistoli, countertenor (Athamas) Gianluca Buratto, bass (Cadmus / Somnus) Emily Owen, soprano (Iris) Angela Hicks, soprano (Cupid) Peter Davoren, tenor (Apollo) Angharad Rowlands, mezzo-soprano (Augur) Dan D'Souza, baritone (High Priest) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists (on period instruments) John Eliot Gardiner, dir. This recording was taken from a staged concert performance at London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre on 2 May 2019, in front of a live audience Release Date: October 2, 2020
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REM GENRE Oratorio-Opera REM DATE 2019 REM DISCID 0D092913 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.5" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (dir.); Louise Alder (Semele -soprano-), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter -tenor-), Lucile Richardot (Juno / Ino -mezzo-soprano-), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas -countertenor-), Gianluca Buratto (Cadmus / Somnus -bass-), Emily Oweno (Iris -soprano-), Angela Hicks (Cupid -soprano-), Peter Davoren (Apollo -tenor-), Angharad Rowlands(Augur -mezzo-soprano-), Dan D’Souza (High Priest -baritone)" TITLE "Semele (Disc 1)" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)" FILE "Handel - Semele (Disc 1) - John Eliot Gardiner [2019].flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "SEMELE, Oratorio in three acts. Based on a pre-existent opera libretto by William Congreve, HWV 58. First presented in concert form at Covent Garden theatre on 10 February 1744 - ACT ONE. Overture" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Gavotte" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 04:55:71 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Accompagnato (High Priest): “Behold! Auspicious flashes rise”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Dan D’Souza" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 06:39:39 INDEX 01 06:39:40 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Chorus of Priests: “Lucky omens bless our rites”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 08:11:10 INDEX 01 08:11:11 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Recitative, Arioso & Duet (Cadmus, Athamas): “Daughter, obey”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 11:25:28 INDEX 01 11:25:29 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Recitative (Semele): “Ah me! What refuge now is left me?”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 12:26:55 INDEX 01 12:26:56 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Air (Semele): “Oh Jove! In pity teach me which to choose”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 13:27:23 INDEX 01 13:27:24 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Recitative (Ino, Athamas): “Alas! she yields”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 15:24:46 INDEX 01 15:24:47 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Quartet (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele): “Why dost thou thus untimely grieve”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto, Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 16:08:56 INDEX 01 16:08:57 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Chorus of Priests: “Avert these omens, all ye pow’rs”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 19:08:10 INDEX 01 19:08:11 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Recitatives (Athamas, Semele): “Again auspicious flashes rise” … “Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Carlo Vistoli, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 21:09:66 INDEX 01 21:09:67 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Chorus of Priests: “Cease, cease your vows, ’tis impious to proceed”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 22:09:65 INDEX 01 22:09:66 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Recitatives (Ino, Athamas): “Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes” … “She weeps!”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 22:43:16 INDEX 01 22:43:17 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Air (Athamas): “Your tuneful voice my tale would tell”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 23:27:26 INDEX 01 23:27:27 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Recitative (Ino, Athamas): “Too well I see”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 28:08:50 INDEX 01 28:08:51 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Duet (Ino, Athamas): “You’ve undone me”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 28:55:73 INDEX 01 28:55:74 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Recitative (Cadmus, Athamas): “Ah! wreched prince”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 31:32:49 INDEX 01 31:32:50 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Accompagnato (Cadmus): “Wing’d with our fears and pious hate”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 32:07:03 INDEX 01 32:07:04 TRACK 19 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 4. Chorus: “Hail Cadmus, hail!” ; Air (Augur) and Chorus: “Endless pleasure, endless love”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Angharad Rowlands" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 00 33:30:38 INDEX 01 33:30:39
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REM GENRE Opera-Oratorio REM DATE 2019 REM DISCID 470BED15 REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.5" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (dir.); Louise Alder (Semele -soprano-), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter -tenor-), Lucile Richardot (Juno / Ino -mezzo-soprano-), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas -countertenor-), Gianluca Buratto (Cadmus / Somnus -bass-), Emily Oweno (Iris -soprano-), Angela Hicks (Cupid -soprano-), Peter Davoren (Apollo -tenor-), Angharad Rowlands(Augur -mezzo-soprano-), Dan D’Souza (High Priest -baritone)" TITLE "Semele (Disc 2)" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)" FILE "Handel - Semele (Disc 2) - John Eliot Gardiner [2019].flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "ACT TWO. Sinfonia" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Recitative (Juno, Iris): “Iris, impatient of thy stay”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Emily Oweno" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 01:31:27 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Air (Iris): “There, from mortal cares retiring” ; Recitative (Juno): “No more, I’ll hear no more”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Emily Oweno, Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 02:17:72 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Accompagnato (Juno): “Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy!” ; Recitative & Accompagnato (Iris): “Hear, mighty queen, while I recount” … “With adamant the gates are barr’d”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Emily Oweno" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 05:12:20 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 1. Air (Juno): “Hence, Iris, hence away”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 07:01:05 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Air (Cupid): “Come, zephyrs, come while Cupid sings”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Angela Hicks" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 10:35:18 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 2. Air (Semele): “Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 16:15:54 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Recitative (Semele): “Let me not another moment”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 19:38:04 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Air (Jupiter): “Lay your doubts and fears aside”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 19:55:73 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Recitative (Jupiter): “You are mortal and require”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 23:05:02 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Air (Semele): “With fond desiring”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 23:30:41 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs: “How engaging, how endearing”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 26:26:16 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Recitative (Semele, Jupiter): “Ah me!” … “Why sighs my Semele?”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder, Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 29:15:41 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Air (Jupiter): “I must with speed amuse her”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 30:24:69 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Chorus of Loves and Zephyrs: “Now love that everlasting boy invites”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 34:12:62 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Recitative (Jupiter, Semele): “By my command”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 36:31:33 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 3. Air (Jupiter): “Where’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 37:46:02 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 4. Recitative (Semele, Ino): “Dear sister, how was your passage hither?”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder, Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 43:10:62 TRACK 19 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 4. Air (Ino): “But hark! the heav’nly sphere turns round”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 44:04:15 TRACK 20 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 4. Duet (Semele, Ino): “Prepare then, ye immortal choir”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder, Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 45:57:25 TRACK 21 AUDIO TITLE "Scene 4. Chorus of Nymphs and Swains: “Bless the glad earth with heav’nly lays”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 48:06:55
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REM GENRE "Musical Drama" REM DATE 2019 REM DISCID 950F691C REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.5" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (dir.); Louise Alder (Semele -soprano-), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter -tenor-), Lucile Richardot (Juno / Ino -mezzo-soprano-), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas -countertenor-), Gianluca Buratto (Cadmus / Somnus -bass-), Emily Oweno (Iris -soprano-), Angela Hicks (Cupid -soprano-), Peter Davoren (Apollo -tenor-), Angharad Rowlands(Augur -mezzo-soprano-), Dan D’Souza (High Priest -baritone)" TITLE "Semele (Disc 3)" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel (1785-1759)" FILE "Handel - Semele (Disc 3) - John Eliot Gardiner [2019].flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "ACT THREE. Sinfonia" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Accompagnato (Juno, Iris): “Somnus, awake”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Emily Oweno" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 01:37:47 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Somnus): “Leave me, loathsome light”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 02:08:06 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Iris, Juno): “Dull God, canst thou attend the water’s fall”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Emily Oweno, Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 05:47:03 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Somnus): “More sweet is that name”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 06:20:50 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Juno, Somnus): “My will obey”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 08:48:59 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Duet (Juno, Somnus): “Obey my will”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 10:09:72 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Semele): “My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 12:13:40 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Juno, Semele): “Thus shap’d like Ino”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 15:24:72 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Semele): “Myself I shall adore”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 16:57:51 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Juno, Semele): “Be wise, as you are beautiful” ; Accompagnato (Juno): “Conjure him by his oath”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 23:36:61 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Semele): “Thus let my thanks be paid”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 25:19:72 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Juno, Semele): “Rich odours fill the fragrant air”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 28:06:15 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Jupiter): “Come to my arms, my lovely fair”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 28:31:09 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Jupiter): “O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?” ; Air (Semele): “I ever am granting”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 32:03:66 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative & Accompagnato (Jupiter, Semele): “Speak, speak your desire”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas, Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 33:45:02 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Jupiter): “Ah, take heed what you press”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 34:53:46 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Semele): “No, no, I’ll take no less”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 35:57:72 TRACK 19 AUDIO TITLE "Accompagnato (Jupiter): “Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Hugo Hymas" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 40:43:25 TRACK 20 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Juno): “Above measure is the pleasure”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 44:05:00 TRACK 21 AUDIO TITLE "Accompagnato (Semele): “Ah me! Too late I now repent”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Louise Alder" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 46:15:24 TRACK 22 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus of Priests: “O terror and astonishment!”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 49:41:33 TRACK 23 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas): “How I was hence remov’d”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Lucile Richardot, Gianluca Buratto, Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 53:58:12 TRACK 24 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Athamas): “Despair no more shall wound me”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Carlo Vistoli" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 54:44:33 TRACK 25 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Cadmus): “See from above the bellying clouds descend”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Gianluca Buratto" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 59:43:40 TRACK 26 AUDIO TITLE "Sinfonia" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 60:01:46 TRACK 27 AUDIO TITLE "Accompagnato (Apollo): “Apollo comes, to relieve your care”" PERFORMER "English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Peter Davoren" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 61:45:35 TRACK 28 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus: “Happy, happy shall we be”" PERFORMER "Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 62:38:39
Editorial Reviews
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)
Review
AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-] Handel called Semele, HWV 58, a musical drama after the manner of an oratorio, and that mixture of modes, plus the work's failure at its first performance (it was considered too risqué for the stolid middle-class English crowd with its secular text on the topic of adultery), consigned it to obscurity until the late 20th century. Even then, Semele remained a bit underrated. The "manner of an oratorio" description indicates the presence of numerous choruses, integral to the action, and not all choirs have made these come alive, and the comic nature of much of the material has been a challenge for Handelian singers. These problems are solved in this live recording from the Alexandra Palace Theatre in London. The choruses are given their proper catchy, chunky shapes, reminiscent of the nearly contemporary Messiah, HWV 56, and the singers are top-notch. Louise Alder delivers fetching tunes (try "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" from Act Two), and she makes a nice contrast with the delightful comic squawks of Lucile Richardot as Juno (the cast is multinational, but one would be hard put to it to identify a moment where anyone sounded anything less than purely English). Conductor John Eliot Gardiner shifts gears effectively from his smooth sacred music idiom and keeps things moving along, with the choruses crackling in spirit. SDG's engineering work is very good, and text intelligibility is high. In all, for a gift for someone who would like an underrated Handel gem, one could hardly do better than this.
