Movements
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 2 "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" [Semele, Ino] "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" [Ino]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 2 "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" [Semele, Ino]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 2 "Bless the glad earth" [Chorus]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 Symphony "Somnus, awake!" [Juno, Iris]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Leave me, loathsome light!" [Somnus] "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" [Iris, Juno]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "More sweet is that name" [Somnus] "My will obey, she shall be thine" [Juno, Somnus]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Obey my will" [Juno, Somnus]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "My racking thoughts" [Semele]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Thus shap'd like Ino" [Juno, Semele]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "O ecstasy of happiness!" [Semele] "Myself I shall adore" [Semele] "Be wise, as you are beautiful" [Juno, Semele]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Conjure him by his oath" [Juno]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" [Semele] "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" [Semele, Juno]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Come to my arms" [Jupiter] "Oh Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" [Jupiter]Preview unavailablePlays this movement
- Handel : Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "I ever am granting" (Semele),..."Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)Preview unavailablePlays this movement
Performers
- John Eliot GardinerConductor
- Della JonesContralto
- David ThomasBass
- Catherine DenleyMezzo Soprano
- Patrizia KwellaSoprano
- Anthony Rolfe JohnsonTenor
- English Baroque SoloistsOrchestra
- The Monteverdi ChoirChoir
- Norma Burrowes
Credits
- Label
- Warner Classics International
- Recording year
- 1990