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Title: |
Semele |
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Publication: |
Alemanha : Deutsche Grammophon, 1993 |
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ISRC: |
Deutsche Grammophon: 435 782-2 |
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| Physical Description: | 3 discos (CD) (174 min.) : stereo; 12 cm + Libreto | |
| Notes: | Intérpretes: Ambrosian Opera Chorus; English Chamber Orchestra; John McCarthy, John Nelson (maestros); John Aler (Jupiter); Samuel Ramey (Cadmus, Somnus); Kathleen Battle (Semele); Michael Chance (Athamas); Marilyn Horne (Ino, Juno); Neil Mackie (Apollo); Sylvia McNair (Iris); Mark Doss (Priest); No do Serviço de Aquisições e Tratamento Técnico | |
| Music Category/Genre: | Classical Music | |
| Call Number: | 300.HAN.03364/AC+ |
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TRACKS* / CONTENTS: |
Ajuda
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| Disco 1: | |||||
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Ouverture - Gavotte.
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2.
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Accompagnato: Behold! auspicious flashes rise!.
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3.
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Chorus: Lucky omens bless our rites.
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4.
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Recitative and arioso: Daughter, obey, hear and obey!.
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Accompagnato: Ah met! What refuge now is left me?; Air: O Jove! in pity teach me wich to choose.
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6.
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Air: The morning lark to mine accords his note.
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Recitative: See, she blushing turns her eyes.
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8.
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Air: Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare.
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9.
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Recitative: Alas! she yields, and has undone me.
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10.
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Quartetto: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve.
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11.
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Chorus: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!.
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12.
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Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes rise.
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13.
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Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!.
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14.
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Chorus: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed.
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15.
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Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!.
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16.
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Air: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes.
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17.
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Recitative: She weeps!.
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18.
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Air: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell.
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19.
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Recitative: Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me.
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20.
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Duetto: You've undone me / With my life I would atone.
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Recitative: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!; Accompagnato: Wing'd with our fears and pious haste; Recitative: O prodigy, to me of dire portent!.
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Chorus: Hail Cadmus, hail!.
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23.
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Air and Chorus: Endless pleasure, endless love.
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Sinfonia.
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2.
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Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay.
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Air: There from mortal cares retiring.
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Recitative: No more - I'll hear no more!; Accompagnato: Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!.
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5.
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Air: Hence, Iris, hence away.
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Air: O sleep, why dost thou leave me?.
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Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence.
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8.
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Air: Lay your doubts and fears aside.
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Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest.
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10.
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Air: With fond desiring.
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Chorus: How engaging, how endearing.
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12.
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Recitative: Ah me! / Why sighs my Semele?.
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13.
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Air: I must with speed amuse her.
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14.
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Chorus: Now Love that everlasting boy invites.
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15.
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Recitative: By my command.
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16.
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Air: Where'er you walk.
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Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither?.
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18.
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Air: But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round.
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19.
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Duetto: Prepare then, ye immortal choir.
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20.
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Chorus: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays.
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| Disco 3: | |||||
| Atto terzo: | |||||
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Symphony, largetto e piano per tutto.
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2.
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Accompagnato: Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!.
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Air: Leave me loathsome light.
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Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall.
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Air: More sweet is that name.
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Recitative: My will obey, she shall be thine.
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Duetto: Obey my will / All I must grant.
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Air: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed.
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Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino.
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Air: Behold in this mirror.
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Recitative: O ecstasy of happiness.
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Air: Myself I shall adore.
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13.
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Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful.
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14.
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Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath.
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15.
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Air: Thus let my thanks be paid.
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Recitative: Rich odours fill the frafrant air.
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Air: Come to my arms, my lovely fair.
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Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?; Air: I ever am granting, you always complain.
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Recitative: Speak, speak your desire.
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Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood, I swear.
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21.
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Recitative: You'll grant what I require?; Accompagnato: Then cast off this human shape.
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22.
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Air: Ah, take heed what you press.
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Air: No, no! I'll take no less.
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| Scena quinta: | |||||
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Accompagnato: Ah! whither is she gone!.
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Air: Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies.
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| Scena settima: | |||||
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Accompagnato: Ah me! too late I now repent / Semele.
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| Scena ottava: | |||||
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Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream.
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Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment!.
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29.
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Recitative: How I was hence remov'd.
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30.
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Air: Despair no more shall wound me.
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Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend.
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Sinfonia.
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Accompagnato: Apollo comes, to relieve your care.
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34.
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Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be.
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