SEMELE (BOX)

HANDEL / JOSHUA / SUMMERS / CURNYN

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No. 1. Ouverture. [ ] –
Allegro – Adagio –
Gavotte
No. 2. Cadmus: ‘Behold! Auspicious Fl Ashes Rise!’
No. 3. Chorus: ‘Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites’
No. 4. Cadmus: ‘Daughter, Obey’
No. 5. Semele: ‘Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?’
No. 6. Semele: ‘The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note’
No. 7. Athamus: ‘See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes’
No. 8. Athamus: ‘Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare’
No. 9. Ino: ‘Alas! She Yields’
No. 10. Cadmus: ‘Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve’
No. 11. Chorus: ‘Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow’rs!’
No. 12. Cadmus: ‘Again Auspicious Fl Ashes Rise’
No. 13. Athamus: ‘Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamus Implores’
No. 14. Chorus: ‘Cease, Cease Your Vows, ’tis Impious To Proceed’
No. 15. Athamus: ‘O Athamus, What Torture Hast Thou Borne!’
No. 16. Ino: ‘Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes’
No. 17. Athamus: ‘She Weeps! The Gentle Maid, In Tender Pity
No. 18. Athamus: ‘Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell’
No. 19. Ino: ‘Too Well I See’
No. 20. Ino: ‘You’ve Undone Me’
No. 21. Cadmus: ‘Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom’d To Disastrous Love!’ –
Cadmus: ‘See, See, Jove’s Priests And Holy Augurs Come’
No. 22. Chorus: ‘Hail, Cadmus, Hail! Jove Salutes The Theban King’
No. 23. Semele: ‘Endless Pleasure, Endless Love’
No. 24. Sinfonia. Presto
No. 25. Juno: ‘Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay’
No. 26. Iris: ‘There, From Mortal Cares Retiring’
No. 27. Juno: ‘No More – I’ll Hear No More’
No. 28. Juno: ‘Hence, Iris, Hence Away’
No. 30. Semele: ‘O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?’
No. 31. Semele: ‘Let Me Not Another Moment’
No. 32. Jupiter: ‘Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside’
No. 33. Jupiter: ‘You Are Mortal, And Require’
No. 34. Semele: ‘With Fond Desiring’
No. 35. Chorus: ‘How Engaging, How Endearing’
No. 36. Semele: ‘Ah Me!’ –
Jupiter: ‘Why Sighs My Semele?’
No. 37. Jupiter: ‘I Must With Speed Amuse Her’
No. 38. Chorus: ‘Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites’
No. 39. Jupiter: ‘By My Command’
No. 40. Jupiter: ‘Where’er You Walk, Cool Gales Shall Fan The Glade’
No. 41. Semele: ‘Dear Sister, How Was Your Passage Hither?’
No. 42. Ino: ‘But Hark! The Heav’nly Sphere Turns Round’
No. 43. Ino And Semele: ‘Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir’
No. 44. Chorus: ‘Bless The Glad Earth With Heav’nly Lays’
No. 45. [Sinfonia.] Larghetto E Piano Per Tutto
No. 46. Juno: ‘Somnus, Awake’
No. 47. Somnus: ‘Leave Me, Loathsome Light’
No. 48. Iris: ‘Dull God, Canst Thou Attend The Water’s Fall’
No. 49. Somnus: ‘More Sweet Is That Name’
No. 50. Juno: ‘My Will Obey’
No. 51. Juno: ‘Obey My Will, Thy Rod Resign’
No. 52. Semele: ‘My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed’
No. 53. Juno: ‘Thus Shap’d Like Ino’
No. 54. Semele: ‘Myself I Shall Adore’
No. 55. Juno: ‘Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful’
No. 56. Semele: ‘Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid’
No. 57. Juno: ‘Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air’
No. 58. Jupiter: ‘Come To My Arms, My Lovely Fair’
No. 59. Jupiter: ‘O Semele’
No. 60. Semele: ‘I Ever Am Granting’
No. 61. Jupiter: ‘Speak, Speak Your Desire’
No. 62. Semele: ‘You’ll Grant What I Require’
No. 63. Semele: ‘Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear’
No. 64. Jupiter: ‘Ah, Take Heed What You Press’
No. 65. Semele: ‘No, No! I’ll Take No Less’
No. 66. Jupiter: ‘Ah! Whither Is She Gone! Unhappy Fair!’
No. 67. Juno: ‘Above Measure’
No. 68. Semele: ‘Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent’
No. 69. Ino: ‘Of My Ill-boding Dream’
No. 70. Chorus: ‘O Terror And Astonishment!’
No. 71. Ino: ‘How I Was Hence Remov’d’
No. 72. Athamus: ‘Despair No More Shall Wound Me’
No. 73. Cadmus: ‘See From Above The Bellying Clouds Descend’
No. 74. Sinfonia. [ ]
No. 75. Apollo: ‘Apollo Comes To Relieve Your Care’
No. 76. All: ‘Happy, Happy Shall We Be’

NOTES

Recording venue All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London; 16–20 April 2007
Issued in a cardboard box, each CD i a separate cardboard sleeve, with 84-page booklet (numbering from 3 to 82)
Liner notes in English (© 2007), German and French, sung texts in English
Disc rim text in German
Front cover Photography of Rosemary Joshua (stylist: Luc Verschueren) by Leo Erken and
photograph of Grange Park by Alastair Muir
Chandos 24-bit recording
℗ 2007
© 2007
Made in the EU (on CDs)
Printed in the EU (Booklet p. 82)
TT 169:35
– CD1 59:57
– CD2 46:10
– CD3 63:28

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