00000cja a22000003a 4500 UP-99796217611561268 Buklod 20150420160225.0 a r |||| u| s| u||||||u|u| 150420s1985 xx d|||||||||||||| | (iLib)UPD-00243206617 DMUS eng CD2592 Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759. Semele [soundrecording]. New York Lange oublie c1985. 3 sound disc (191mins., 89sec.) digital 4 3/4 in. Compact disc. Performed on the 300th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth. Program notes (2 p. : col. ill.) inserted in container. CD1 (61:35) Part I. Overture: Recit (Priest): behold! Auspicious flames rise! -- Chorus: Lucky omens bless our rites -- Recit (Cadmus, Athamas): daughter, obey, hear and obey -- Recit accompany'd (Semele): Ah me! What Refuge now is left me? -- Song (Semele): the morning lark to mine accords his note -- Recit and song (Athamas): See, she blushing turns her eyes...Hymen, haste -- Recit (Ino): Alas! she yields -- Four part song (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele): Why dost thou thus untimely grieve -- Chorus of priests: Avert these omens, all ye Pow'rs! -- Recit (Athamas): O Athamas, what torture hast thou born! -- Song (Ino): Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes -- Recit and song (Athamas): She weeps!...Youre tune voice my tale would tell -- Recit (Ino): Too well I see thou wilt not understand me -- Duet (Ino, Athamas): You've undone me -- Recit (Cadmus, Athamus): Ah, wretched Prince -- Recit accompany'd (Cadmus, Athamas, Ino): Wing'd with our Fears, and pious haste -- Recit and chorus (Cadmus, Priests): See, see, Jove's Priests...Hail Cadmus, hail! -- Song (Semele): Endless pleasure, endless love, Semele enjoys above -- CD2 (59:04) Announcements Part II. Sinfonia -- Scene One: A Pleasant Country -- Recit (Juno, Iris): Iris, impatient of thy stay -- Song (Iris): there from mortal cares retiring -- Recit (Juno): awake Saturnia from thy Lethargy -- Aria (Juno): Hence, Iris, hence away Scene Two: An apartment in the palace of Semele -- Song (Semele): o sleep, why dost thou leave me? -- Recit (Semele): let me not another moment -- Song (Jupiter): Lay your doubts and fears aside -- Recit (Jupiter): you are mortal -- Song (Semele) -- with fond desiring, with bliss expiring -- Chorus (Lovers and Zephirs): how engaging, how endearing -- Recit (Semele, Jupiter): Ah, me!...why sighs my Semele? -- Song (Jupiter): I must with speed amuse her -- Chorus (Loves and Zephirs): now love that everlasting boy invites -- Recit (Jupiter, Semele): by my command -- Song (Jupiter): wher'er you walk -- Recit (Semele, Ino): dear sister, how was your passage hither? -- Recit accompany'd (Ino): but hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round -- Duet (Ino, Semele): prepare then ye immortal coir -- Chorus: bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays -- Marilyn Horne and John Nelson discuss Handel -- CD3 (71:50) Announcements Part III. Sinfonia -- Scene One: The case of sleep -- Recit (Juno): leave me, loathsome light -- Recit (Irish): Dull god, cans't thou attend -- Song (Somnus): More sweet is that name -- Recit (Juno, Somnus): My will obey -- Duet (Juno, Somnus): obey my will, thy Rod resign -- Scene Two: A Luxurios Apartment -- Song (Semele): my racking thoughts -- Recit (Juno, Semele):Thus shap'd like Ino -- Arioso (Juno): behold in this mirror -- Recit (Semele): O ecstacy of happiness -- Song (Semele): my self i shall adore -- Recit (Juno Semele): Be wife, as you are beautiful -- Song (Semele): Thus let my thanks be paid -- Recit (Juno): Rich odours fill the fragrant air -- Song (Jupiter): Come to my arms, my lovely fair -- Song (Semele): i ever am granting, you always complain -- Recit (Jupiter): Speak, speak your desire -- Recit accompany'd (Jupiter): Ah, take heed what you press -- Song (Semele): No, no! I'll take no less, than all in full excess -- Recit accompany'd (Jupiter): Ah! whither is she gone! -- Song (Juno): Above measure is the pleasure -- Scene Three: A Canopy -- Recit accompany'd (Semele): Ah me! too late I know repent -- Chorus: Nature to each allots his proper sphere -- Recit (Ino): I was hence remov'd -- Song (Athamus): Despair no more shall wound me -- Scene the Last: Mount Citheron -- Sinfonia -- Recit accompany'd (Apollo): Apollo comes to relieve your care -- Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be -- Closing announcements. Kathleen Battle. Rockwell Blake. Marilyn Home. Sylvia McNair. Samuel Ramey. William MaNeil. James Patterson. Secular Oratorio. FO Optic UPD DMUS CD2592 Music