Offer,Handel: Semele
Rosemary Joshua (Semele), Hilary Summers (Juno/Ino), Richard Croft (Jupiter), Stephen Wallace (Athamas), Brindley Sherratt (Cadmus/Somnus) & Gail Pearson (Iris), David Croft (Apollo)
Early Opera Company (on period instruments), Christian Curnyn
In the title role, soprano Rosemary Joshua applies light and graceful tone and conveys Semele's wilful, pleasure-seeking nature. As her immortal lover Jupiter, tenor Richard Croft is equally... — More…
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2008Editor's Choice
3 CDs
$33.25Contents
Excerpt,
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company
No. 1, Ouverture
Allegro - Adagio
Gavotte
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene I
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Brindley Sherratt, Early Opera Company Choir, Rosemary Joshua, Stephen Wallace, Hilary Summers
No. 2, Behold! auspicious flashes rise! (Cadmus)
No. 3, Lucky omens bless our rites (Chorus)
No. 4, Daughter, obey (Cadmus)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene II
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Stephen Wallace, Hilary Summers
No. 15, O Athamus, what torture hast thou borne! (Athamus)
No. 16, Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes (Ino)
No. 17, She weeps! The gentle maid, in tender pity (Athamus)
No. 18, Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Athamus)
No. 19, Too well I see (Ino)
No. 20, You've undone me (Ino)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene III
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Brindley Sherratt
No. 21, Ah, wretched Prince, doom'd to disastrous love! (Cadmus)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act I Scene IV
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Early Opera Company Choir, Rosemary Joshua
No. 22, Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King (Chorus)
No. 23, Endless pleasure, endless love (Semele)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II
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No. 24, Sinfonia. Presto
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene I
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Hilary Summers, Gail Pearson
No. 25, Iris, impatient of thy stay (June)
No. 26, There, from mortal cares retiring (Iris)
No. 27, No more - I'll hear no more (Juno)
No. 28, Hence, Iris, hence away (Juno)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene II
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Rosemary Joshua
No. 30, O sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Semele)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene III
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Rosemary Joshua, Richard Croft, Early Opera Company Choir
No. 31, Let me not another moment (Semele)
No. 32, Lay your doubts and fears aside (Jupiter)
No. 33, You are mortal, and require (Jupiter)
Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene IV
- Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Rosemary Joshua, Hilary Summers, Early Opera Company Choir
No. 41, Dear sister, how was your passage hither? (Semele)
No. 42, But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round (Ino)
No. 43, Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Ino and Semele)
No. 44, Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays (Chorus)