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G. F. HANDEL

Semele
Battle · Horne · Aler · Ramey
Chance · Mackie · McNair · Doss
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
English Chamber Orchestra
John Nelson
Int. Release 03 May. 1993
3 CDs / Download
CD DDD 0289 435 7822 6 GH 3

The best show in London at the moment is Covent Garden's "Semele" and if your pocket doesn't run to the seat prices there, the closest experience available is this recording . . . It's a non-stop stream of gorgeous arias and choruses . . . Kathleen Battle and Michael Chance are among the top-flight singers.
Record Review / Michael Church, Sun Express / 07. June 2003

Track List

CD 1: Handel: Semele

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58

Act 1

1.
Overture
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9:04

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English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

2.
Behold! auspicious flashes arise
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1:26

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Mark S. Doss, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

3.
Lucky omens bless our rites
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3:08

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

4.
Daughter, obey
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0:58

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Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

5.
Ah! me! - O Jove!
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2:44

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6.
The morning lark to mine accords his note
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7:05

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

7.
See she blushing turns her eyes
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0:18

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8.
Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare
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4:38

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Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

9.
Alas! she yields, and has undone me
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0:48

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Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

10.
Why dost thou thus untimely grieve?
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2:45

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Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

11.
Avert these omens
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2:00

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

12.
Again auspicious flashes rise
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0:39

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Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

13.
Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!
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0:17

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Michael Chance, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

14.
Cease your vows
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0:36

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

15.
O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!
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0:30

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Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

16.
Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes
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8:26

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

17.
She weeps!
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0:25

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18.
Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
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4:56

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Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

19.
Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me
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0:47

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20.
You've undone me / With my life I would atone
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2:29

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Michael Chance, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

21.
Ah, wretched prince / Wing'd with our fears /O prodigy/See, see, Jove's Priests
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2:07

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Michael Chance, Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

22.
Hail Cadmus!
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1:34

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Samuel Ramey, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

23.
Endless pleasure...
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4:30

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Kathleen Battle, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

Total Playing Time 1:02:10

CD 2: Handel: Semele

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58

Act 2

1.
Overture
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1:31

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English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

2.
Iris, impatient of thy stay
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0:46

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Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

3.
There from mortal cares retiring
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3:27

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Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

4.
No more - I'll hear no more! / Awake Saturnia..
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1:55

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Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

5.
Hence, Iris, hence away
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3:23

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

6.
Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
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3:10

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7.
Let me not another moment
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0:16

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

8.
Lay your doubts and fears aside
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3:02

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9.
You are mortal and require time to rest
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0:23

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

10.
With fond desiring
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2:54

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

11.
How engaging, how endearing
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3:06

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

12.
Ah me! why sighs my Semele!
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1:23

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Kathleen Battle, John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

13.
I must with speed amuse her
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3:44

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

14.
Now Love that everlasting boy invites
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2:21

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

15.
By my command
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1:18

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John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

16.
Where'er you walk
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4:53

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

17.
Dear Sister
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0:46

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Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

18.
But hark! The Heavenly Sphere
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2:14

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

19.
Prepare then, ye immortal choir
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2:02

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Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

20.
Bless the glad earth
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2:43

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

Total Playing Time 45:17

CD 3: Handel: Semele

George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Semele HWV 58

Act 3

1.
Overture
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1:22

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English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

2.
Somnus, awake
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0:31

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Marilyn Horne, Sylvia McNair, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

3.
Leave me, loathsome light
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3:07

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Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

4.
Dull God
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0:40

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Sylvia McNair, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

5.
More sweet is that name
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2:14

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Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

6.
My will obey
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1:23

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7.
Obey my will / All I must grant
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1:53

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Samuel Ramey, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

8.
My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed
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2:53

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

9.
Thus shap'd like Ino
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1:14

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Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

10.
Behold this mirror
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2:40

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

11.
O ecstasy of happiness
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0:19

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12.
Myself I shall adore
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6:39

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

13.
Be wise, as you are beautiful
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0:37

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Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

14.
Conjure him by his oath
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1:28

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

15.
Thus let my thanks be pay'd
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2:13

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

16.
Rich odours fill the fragrant air
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0:32

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Kathleen Battle, Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

17.
Come to my arms
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2:58

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

18.
O Semele! Why art thou....? / I ever am granting, ..
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1:42

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19.
Speak what you desire
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0:15

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John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

20.
By that tremendous flood, I swear
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0:27

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

21.
You'll grant what I require? /Then cast off this human
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0:34

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John Aler, Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

22.
Ah, take heed
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1:11

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

23.
No, no, I'll take no less
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5:14

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

24.
Ah, whither is she gone?
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3:01

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John Aler, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

25.
Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies
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2:22

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

26.
Ah me, too late I now repent
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3:44

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Kathleen Battle, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

27.
Of my ill-boding dream
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0:21

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Marilyn Horne, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

28.
Oh, terror and astonishment
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3:56

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

29.
How I was hence remov'd
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1:00

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Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

30.
Despair no more shall wound me
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5:03

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Michael Chance, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

31.
See from above the belling clouds descend
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0:17

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Samuel Ramey, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

32.
Sinfonia: Apollo come
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1:29

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English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

33.
Apollo comes, to relieve your care
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0:57

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Neil Mackie, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

34.
Happy shall we be
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2:56

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Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

Total Playing Time 1:07:12