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Act I
Ouverture
Behold! Auspicious Flashes Rise
Luck Omens Bless Our Rite
Daughter, Obey
Ah Me, Oh Jove
The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note
See She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me
Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
Avert These Omens
Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!
Cease Your Vows
O Athamas, What Toture Hast Thou Borne!
Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
She Weeps!
Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell
Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me
You've Undone Me / With My Life I Would Atone
Ah, Wretched Prince / Wing'd With Our Fears /O Prodigy/See, See, Jove's Priests
Hail Cadmus!
Endless Pleasure...
Act II
Ouverture
Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay
There From Mortal Cares Retiring
No More - I'll Hear No More! / Awake Saturnia..
Hence, Iris, Hence Away
Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
Let Me Not Another Moment
Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside
You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest
With Fond Desiring
How Engaging, How Endearing
Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele!
I Must With Speed Amuse Her
Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites
By My Command
Where'er You Walk
Dear Sister
But Hark! The Heavenly Sphere
Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir
Bless The Glad Earth
Act III
Ouverture
Somnus, Awake
Leave Me, Loathsome Light
Dull God
More Sweet Is That Name
My Will Obey
Obey My Will / All I Must Grant
My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed
Thus Shap'd Like Ino
Behold This Mirror
O Ecstasy Of Happiness
Myself I Shall Adore
Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful
Conjure Him By His Oath
Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd
Rich Odours Fill The Fagrant Air
Come To My Arms
O Semele! Why Art Thou....? / I Ever Am Granting, ..
Speak What You Desire
By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear
You'll Grant What I Require? /Then Cast Off This Human
Ah, Take Heed
No, No, I'll Take No Less
Ah, Whither Is She Gone?
Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies
Ah Me, Too Late I Now Repent
Of My Ill-boding Dream
Oh, Terror And Astonishment
How I Was Hence Remov'd
Despair No More Shall Wound Me
See From Above The Belling Clouds Descend
Sinfonia: Apollo Come
Apollo Comes, To Relieve Your Care
Happy Shall We Be

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Comes with 121 page booklet

credits

Bass Vocals – Samuel Ramey
Chorus – The Ambrosian Singers
Composed By – Händel,
Conductor – John Nelson (5)
Countertenor Vocals – Michael Chance
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Marilyn Horne
Orchestra – English Chamber Orchestra
Soprano Vocals – Kathleen Battle, Sylvia McNair
Tenor Vocals – John Aler
Chorus – Ambrosian Opera Chorus,
Composed By – George Frideric Handel,
Conductor – John Nelson (5)
Coordinator – Claudia Hamann, Pål Christian Moe
Directed By – John McCarthy
Double Bass – Stephen Williams (3)
Engineer [Balance] – Helmut Burk
Harpsichord – Anthony Newman
Libretto By – William Congreve
Lute, Theorbo – Dorothy Linell
Orchestra – English Chamber Orchestra
Organ – Ian Wilson (28)
Post Production – Christopher Alder
Producer – Dr. Steven Paul,
Violoncello – Dietrich Bethge, Olga Hegedus
Vocals [Apollo] – Neil Mackie (2)
Vocals [Athamas] – Michael Chance
Vocals [Cadmus · Somnus] – Samuel Ramey
Vocals [Iris] – Sylvia McNair
Vocals [Juno · Ino] – Marilyn Horne
Vocals [Jupiter] – John Aler
Vocals [Priest] – Mark S. Doss
Vocals [Semele] – Kathleen Battle

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Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Manufactured By – PolyGram Classics & Jazz
Marketed By – PolyGram Classics & Jazz
Recorded At – No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London
Recorded At – Abbey Road Studio No. 5

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