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Handel: Semele

Kathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris)

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

Handel: Semele

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[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms...

Penguin Guide, 20103 out of 4 stars

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Handel: Semele

Kathleen Battle (Semele), Marilyn Horne (Juno/Ino), Samuel Ramey (Cadmus/Somnus), John Aler (Jupiter), Michael Chance (Athamas), Neil Mackie (Apollo), Sylvia McNair (Iris)

Ambrosian Opera Chorus, English Chamber Orchestra, John Nelson

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[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms...

Penguin Guide, 20103 out of 4 stars

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Handel: Semele
Work length2:53:57
Overture
Track length9:03
Behold! Auspicious Flashes Arise
Track length1:26
Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
Track length3:07
Daughter, Obey
Track length0:57
Ah! Ne! - O Jove!
Track length2:43
The Morning Lark To Mine Accords His Note
Track length7:04
See She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
Track length0:17
Hymen, Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
Track length4:38
Alas! She Yields, And Has Undone Me
Track length0:48
Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
Track length2:44
Avert These Omens
Track length1:59
Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
Track length0:38
Thy Aid, Pronubial Juno, Athamas Implores!
Track length0:17
Cease Your Vows
Track length0:36
O Athamas, What Toture Hast Thou Borne!
Track length0:29
Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
Track length8:25
She Weeps!
Track length0:24
Your Tuneful Voice My Tale Would Tell
Track length4:55
Too Well I See, Thou Wilt Not Understand Me
Track length0:47
You've Undone Me / With My Life I Would Atone
Track length2:28
Ah, Wretched Prince / Wing'd With Our Fears / O Prodigy / See, See, Jove's Priests
Track length2:07
Hail Cadmus!
Track length1:34
Endless Pleasure...
Track length4:30
Overture
Track length1:30
Iris, Impatient Of Thy Stay
Track length0:46
There From Mortal Cares Retiring
Track length3:26
No More - I'll Hear No More! / Awake Saturnia...
Track length1:55
Hence, Iris, Hence Away
Track length3:23
Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
Track length3:09
Let Me Not Another Moment
Track length0:16
Lay Your Doubts And Fears Aside
Track length3:02
You Are Mortal And Require Time To Rest
Track length0:23
With Fond Desiring
Track length2:53
How Engaging, How Endearing
Track length3:06
Ah Me! Why Sighs My Semele!
Track length1:23
I Must With Speed Amuse Her
Track length3:44
Now Love That Everlasting Boy Invites
Track length2:21
By My Command
Track length1:17
Where'er You Walk
Track length4:53
Dear Sister
Track length0:46
But Hark! The Heavenly Sphere
Track length2:13
Prepare Then, Ye Immortal Choir
Track length2:01
Bless The Glad Earth
Track length2:43
Overture
Track length1:21
Somnus, Awake
Track length0:31
Leave Me, Loathsome Light
Track length3:07
Dull God
Track length0:40
More Sweet Is That Name
Track length2:14
My Will Obey
Track length1:22
Obey My Will / All I Must Grant
Track length1:52
My Racking Thoughts By No Kind Slumbers Freed
Track length2:53
Thus Shap'd Like Ino
Track length1:13
Behold This Mirror
Track length2:40
O Ecstasy Of Happiness
Track length0:19
Myself I Shall Adore
Track length6:39
Be Wise, As You Are Beautiful
Track length0:37
Conjure Him By His Oath
Track length1:27
Thus Let My Thanks Be Pay'd
Track length2:13
Rich Odours Fill The Fragrant Air
Track length0:31
Come To My Arms
Track length2:57
O Semele! Why Art Thou....? / I Ever Am Granting,..
Track length1:42
Speak What You Desire
Track length0:14
By That Tremendous Flood, I Swear
Track length0:26
You'll Grant What I Require? / Then Cast Off This Human
Track length0:33
Ah, Take Heed
Track length1:11
No, No, I'll Take No Less
Track length5:13
Ah, Whither Is She Gone?
Track length2:59
Above Measure Is The Pleasure, Which My Revenge Supplies
Track length2:21
Ah Me, Too Late I Now Repent
Track length3:44
Of My Ill-Boding Dream
Track length0:21
Oh, Terror And Astonishment
Track length3:55
How I Was Hence Remov'd
Track length0:59
Despair No More Shall Wound Me
Track length5:03
See From Above The Belling Clouds Descend
Track length0:17
Sinfonia: Apollo Come
Track length1:28
Appolo Comes, To Relieve Your Care
Track length0:56
Happy Shall We Be
Track length2:53

Awards and reviews

2010

[The recording] turns away from current fashion in using modern rather than period instruments, but the balance of advantage is in its favour. Nelson's performance is briskly paced, with rhythms sprung infectiously, and he has a strong cast, all of whom distinguish themselves.
3 out of 4 stars
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