Handel Edition Volume 5 - Semele, Israel in Egypt, Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, La Resurrezione, The Ways of Zion do Mourn
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2hr 41min
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August 10, 2009
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Overture
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists
07:18
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Behold! Auspicious flahes rise" (Cadmus)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Robert Lloyd, English Baroque Soloists
01:46
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Lucky omens bless our rites" - Recitative, Air and Duet. "Daughter obey" (Priests, Cadmus, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Robert Lloyd, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
04:38
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" - Air. "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" - Recitative. "Alas, she yields" (Semele, Ino, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Norma Burrowes, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
03:52
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Quartet. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Semele, Ino, Athamas, Cadmus)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Norma Burrowes, Robert Lloyd, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
03:23
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" - Accompagnato. "Again auspicious flashes rise" - Recitative. "Thy aid, pronubial Juno" (Priests, Cadmus, Athamas, S
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Norma Burrowes, Robert Lloyd, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
03:04
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Cease your vow's, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
00:33
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "Oh Athamas" - Air. "Turn, hopeless lover" (Athamas, Ino)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
00:56
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Duet. "You've undone me, look not on me" (Ino, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
03:07
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "Ah, wretched prince" - Accompagnato. "Wing'd with our fears" (Cadmus, Athamas)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Robert Lloyd, Timothy Penrose, English Baroque Soloists
01:48
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "See, see! Jove's Priests" - Chorus. "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Cadmus, Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, Robert Lloyd, English Baroque Soloists
02:06
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Air. "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
02:51
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Priests and Augurs)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
01:46
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Symphony - Recitative. "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Patrizia Kwella, English Baroque Soloists
01:58
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Look, where Cithaeron" - Air. "There, from mortal cares" - Recitative. "No more!" - Accompagnato. "Awake Saturnia" (Juno, Iris)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Patrizia Kwella, English Baroque Soloists
06:49
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Hence, Iris hence away" (Juno)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, English Baroque Soloists
03:38
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Come, Zephyrs, come" - Air. "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Cupid, Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Elisabeth Priday, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
06:30
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Let me not another moment" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
03:26
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Lay your doubts and fears aside" - Recitative. "You are mortal" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
03:32
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "With fond desiring, with bliss expiring" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
03:28
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "How engaging, how endearing" - Recitative. "Ah me! Why sighs my Semele?" (Loves and Zephyrs, Semele, Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The Monteverdi Choir, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
04:45
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Too well I read her meaning" - Air. "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
04:15
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Now Love that everlasting boy" (Loves and Zephyrs)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
02:29
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "By my command now at this instant" (Jupiter, Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
00:28
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "See, she appears" - Air. "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
05:56
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Dear sister?" - Air. "But hark! the heav'nly sphere" (Semele, Ino)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
02:53
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Duet. "Prepare then, ye" (Semele, Ino)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
01:57
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs and Swains)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
02:41
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Symphony - Accompagnato. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno, Iris)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Patrizia Kwella, English Baroque Soloists
02:30
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Leave me, loathsome light!" - Recitative. "Dull God" (Somnus, Iris, Juno)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, David Thomas, Della Jones, Patrizia Kwella, English Baroque Soloists
04:32
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "More sweet is that name" - Recitative. "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, David Thomas, Della Jones, English Baroque Soloists
04:14
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Duet. "Obey my will, thy rod resign" (Juno, Somnus)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, David Thomas, Della Jones, English Baroque Soloists
02:13
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
02:56
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
01:38
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "O ecstasy of happiness!" - Air. "Myself I shall adore" - Recitative. "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
08:07
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Conjure him" (Juno)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, English Baroque Soloists
01:21
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" - Recitative. "Rich odours" (Semele, Juno)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
03:14
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Oh Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
02:51
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "I ever am granting" - Accompagnato. "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele, Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
03:10
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Ah! Take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
01:13
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "No, no, I'll tak no less" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
05:07
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah, wither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists
03:24
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Della Jones, English Baroque Soloists
02:27
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah me! Too late I now repent" (Semele)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Norma Burrowes, English Baroque Soloists
03:22
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Of my ill-boding dream" - Chorus. "Oh terror and astonishment!" (Ino, Priests)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
04:11
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "See from above" - Sinfonia - Accompagnato. "Apollo comes" (Cadmus, Apollo)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Maldwyn Davies, Robert Lloyd, English Baroque Soloists
02:31
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Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Chorus. "Happy shall we be, and free from care" (Priests)
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
03:16
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Overture. Lamentations of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Orchestra
02:13
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Recitative. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt"
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Paul Elliott, Monteverdi Orchestra
00:27
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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air with Chorus. "And the children of Israel"
George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Royall, The Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra
03:54