Overture

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Accompanied recitative: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise (Priest)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative and Arioso: Daughter, obey, Hear and obey! (Cadmus, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Ah me, ah me! What refuge now is left me? (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Aria: O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: The morning lark to mine accords his note (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative: See, she blushing turns her eyes (Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare (Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Alas, she yields, and has undone me! (Ino, Athamas, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Lawrence Zazzo, Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve (Semele, Cadmus, Ino, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin, Andreas Wolf, Dara Savinoya, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Again auspicious flashes rise (Cadmus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Athamas, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo, Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 1: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne! (Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye (Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: She weeps! (Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Aria: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me (Ino, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 2: Duet: You've undone me (Ino, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 3: Accompagnato: Wing'd with our fears and pious haste (Cadmus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene III: Recitativo: O prodigy, to me of dire portent! (Athamas, Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Lawrence Zazzo, Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 4: See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come (Cadmus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 4: Hail, Cadmus, hail! (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 4: Aria: Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act I Scene 4: Chorus: Endless pleasure, endless love

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Iris, impatient of thy stay (Juno, Iris)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Chiara Skerath

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 1: Aria: There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Chiara Skerath

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 1: Recitative: No more! I'll hear no more! (Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 1: Air: Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy (Juno, Iris)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Chiara Skerath

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 1: Aria: Hence, Iris, hence away (Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 2: Aria: O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 2: Aria: Come, Zephyrs, come (Cupid)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Gwendoline Blondeel

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: You are mortal and require time to rest (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Aria: With fond desiring (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: How engaging, how endearing (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Ah me! - Why sighs my Semele? (Semele, Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin, Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Aria: I must with speed amuse her (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Chorus: Now Love that everlasting boy invites (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: By my command (Jupiter, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin, Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 3: Aria: Where'er you walk (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele, Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin, Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 4: Aria: But hark, the heav'nly sphere turns round (Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 4: Duet: Prepare then, ye immortal choir! (Semele, Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin, Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act II Scene 4: Chorus: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: (Symphony) Larghetto e piano per tutto

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Accompanied recitative: Somnus, awake! Eaise thy reclining head! (Juno, Iris)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Chiara Skerath

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Aria: Leave me, loathsome light (Somnus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall (Iris, Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Chiara Skerath, Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Aria: More sweet is that name (Somnus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Recitative: My will obey, She shall be thine (Juno, Somnus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 1: Duet: Obey my will (Juno, Somnus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Recitative: Thus shap'd like Ino (Juno, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Accompagnato: Behold in this mirror (Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Aria: Myself I shall adore (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Recitativo: Be wise, as you are beautiful (Juno, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin, Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath (Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Aria: Thus let my thanks be paid (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 3: Recitative: Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Juno, Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya, Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: Aria: Come to my arms, my lovely fair (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: Recitative: O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible? (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: By that tremendous flood, I swear (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: Recitative: You'll grant what I require? (Semele, Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: Recitative: Then cast off this human shape (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: Aria: Ah, take heed what you press (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 4: No, no, I'll take no less (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 5: Accompanied recitative: Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair? (Jupiter)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 6: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies! (Juno)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 7: Recitative: Ah me! Too late I now repent (Semele)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Ana Maria Labin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 8: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream (Ino)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Dara Savinoya

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 8: Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment! (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 8: Recitative: How I was hence remov'd (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf, Lawrence Zazzo

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene 8: Recitative: See from above the bellying clouds descend (Cadmus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Andreas Wolf

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene the last: Recitative: Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Apollo)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

Performer: Matthew Newlin

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

Act III Scene the last: Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be (chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón