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Release Date: 01/29/2021
Label: Aam Records
UPC: 5060340150143
Rank: 212870

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Semele~Overture: [Largo - Allegro] (taken from Eccles' Rinaldo and Armida, 1699)
  2. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise
  3. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Aria: Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (taken from From this happy Day, in Eccles' Birthday Ode for 1703, used as a basis for reconstruction)
  4. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey
  5. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Aria: Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?
  6. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Aria: See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
  7. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Aria: Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
  8. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me
  9. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Quartet: Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
  10. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Symphony
  11. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!
  12. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Trio: Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs!
  13. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
  14. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Symphony
  15. Semele~Act I: Scene 1: Recitative: Cease Your Vows
  16. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Recitative: O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born!
  17. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Aria: Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
  18. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Recitative: She Weeps!
  19. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Aria: Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found
  20. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Recitative: Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted!
  21. Semele~Act I: Scene 2: Duet: You've Undone Me
  22. Semele~Act I: Scene 3: Recitative: Ah, Wretched Prince, Domm'd to Disastrous Love!
  23. Semele~Act I: Scene 4: Recitative: See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come
  24. Semele~Act I: Scene 4: Trio: Hail, Cadmus, Hail!
  25. Semele~Act I: Scene 4: Aria: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love
  26. Semele~Act I: Scene 4: Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare
  27. Semele~Act I: Scene 4: Chorus: Cease Your Mourning
  28. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Symphony
  29. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Recitative: Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
  30. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Aria: There From Mortal Cares Retiring
  31. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Aria: Thither Flora the Fair
  32. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Recitative: No More- I'll Hear No More
  33. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Aria: Not One of Curst Agenor's Race I'll Spare
  34. Semele~Act II: Scene 1: Recitative: Hear, Mighty Queen
  35. Semele~Act II: Scene 2: Aria: See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight
  36. Semele~Act II: Scene 2: Aria: Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
  37. Semele~Act II: Scene 2: Aire: Dance of the Zephyrs (taken from Eccles' A Sett of Aires Made for The Queen's Coronation..., movement 8)
  38. Semele~Act II: Scene 2: Aria: O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
  39. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Aria: Sleep Forsaking
  40. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Recitative: Let Me Not Another Moment
  41. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Aria: Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside
  42. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Recitative: Nor Was I Absent
  43. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Aria: If Cheerful Hopes
  44. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Duet: If This Be Love, Not You Alone
  45. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Recitative: Ah Me! / Why Sights My Semele?
  46. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Aria: With My Frailty Don't Upbraid Me
  47. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Recitative: Thy Sex of Jove's the Masterpiece
  48. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Aria: Thy Needless Fears Remove
  49. Semele~Act II: Scene 3: Recitative: By My Command
  50. Semele~Act II: Scene 4: Symphony (taken from Eccles' Rinaldo and Armida, 1699)

Disc 2

  1. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Symphony [Adagio - Presto]
  2. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Recitative: Somnus, Awake
  3. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Aria: Leave Me, Loathsome Light
  4. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Recitative: Dull God, Can'st Thou Attend the Waters Fall
  5. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Duet: Only Love on Sleep Has Pow'r
  6. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Recitative: Somnus, Arise
  7. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Aria: More Sweet Is That Name
  8. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Recitative: My Will Obey
  9. Semele~Act III: Scene 1: Duet: Away Let Us Haste
  10. Semele~Act III: Scene 2: Aria: I Love and Am Lov'd
  11. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Recitative: Thus Shaped Like Ino
  12. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Aria: Behold in This Mirrour
  13. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Recitative: O Ecstasy of Happiness!
  14. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Aria: Ah Charming All O'er!
  15. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Recitative: Be Wise as :You Are Beautiful
  16. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Aria: Unknowing Your Intent
  17. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Recitative: But How Shall I Attain to Immortality?
  18. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Aria: Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid
  19. Semele~Act III: Scene 3: Recitative: Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
  20. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
  21. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: Tho'tis Easie to Please You
  22. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: When I Languish With Anguish
  23. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Duet: I Dare Not / Ah Fear Not
  24. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Recitative: Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?
  25. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: I Ever Am Granting
  26. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: Speak, Speak Your Desire
  27. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Recitative: Swear by the Stygian Lake
  28. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear
  29. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: Ah! Take Heed What You Press
  30. Semele~Act III: Scene 4: Aria: I'll Be Pleas'd With No Less
  31. Semele~Act III: Scene 5: Recitative/Arioso: Ah! Whither Is She Gone!
  32. Semele~Act III: Scene 6: Aria: Above Measure Is the Pleasure
  33. Semele~Act III: Scene 7: Symphony
  34. Semele~Act III: Scene 7: Recitative: Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent
  35. Semele~Act III: Scene 7: Symphony
  36. Semele~Act III: Scene 8: Recitative: Of My Ill-boding Dream
  37. Semele~Act III: Scene 9: Aria: Apollo Comes to Relieve You Care
  38. Semele~Act III: Scene 9: Aria: From Tyrannous Love
  39. Semele~Act III: Scene 9: Aria: Then Mortals Be Merry
  40. Semele~Act III: Scene 9: Chorus: Then Mortals Be Merry

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Richard Burkhard   Primary Artist,Baritone (Vocal)
Anna Dennis   Primary Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Julian Perkins   Primary Artist,Conductor
Academy of Ancient Music   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Graeme Broadbent   Bass (Vocal)
Jonathan Brown   Baritone (Vocal)
Christopher Foster   Bass (Vocal)
William Wallace   Tenor (Vocal)
Helen Charlston   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
James Rhoads   Tenor (Vocal)
Bethany Horak-Hallett   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Aoife Miskelly   Soprano (Vocal)
Jolyon Loy   Baritone (Vocal)
Heloise Bernard   Soprano (Vocal)
Rory Carver   Tenor (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Dave Rowell   Mastering,Mixing,Editing,Engineer
Julian Perkins   Liner Notes
John Eccles   Composer
Francois Perrier   Paintings
Peter Holman   Liner Notes
Nicolas Bertin   Paintings
Ruth Smith   Liner Notes
William Congreve   Librettist,Liner Notes
Marco Ricci   Paintings
Godfrey Kneller   Portraits
Gustave Moreau   Paintings
Giulio Romano   Engraving
Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto   Paintings
Judith Tarling   Liner Notes
Sebastiano Ricci   Paintings
Paul Rubens   Paintings
Alexander van Ingen   Liner Notes,Photography,Executive Producer,Recording Producer
Phil Tragen   Photography
Patrick Allen   Photography
Alan Howard   Liner Notes
Stephanie Oade   Liner Notes
Helen Charlston   Liner Notes
William Vincent   Portraits
Katie Earl   Assistant Engineer
James Waterhouse   Assistant Engineer
Ivan Day   Liner Notes
Bon Boullogne   Paintings
Carlo Cornara   Paintings
Ludovico Dolce   Artwork
Luke Koch De Gooreynd   Photography
Thomas Cook   Engraving
Jean-Baptiste Deshays De Colleville   Paintings
Bill Thorp   Liner Notes
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