Christian Curnyn - Semele [3 CD]

Tracklist:

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

UPC: 095115074527
Label: Chandos
Release Date: 1.15.08
Format: CD