Semele / [an opera composed by John Eccles ; to a libretto by William Congreve] ; Julian Perkins, conductor, performer.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Eccles, John, -1735, composer.

Contributor:

Perkins, Julian, 1977- conductor.

Congreve, William, 1670-1729, librettist.

Burkhard, Richard, performer.

Charlston, Helen, performer.

Bernard, Héloïse, performer.

Horak-Hallett, Bethany, performer.

Foster, Christopher (Bass), performer.

Loy, Jolyon, performer.

Brown, Jonathan (Baritone), performer.

Dennis, Anna, performer.

Miskelly, Aoife, performer.

Wallace, William (Tenor), performer.

Broadbent, Graeme, 1962- performer.

Carver, Rory, performer.

Rhoads, James, performer.

Academy of Ancient Music (1973- ). Classical Chamber Ensemble, performer.

Cambridge Handel Opera Company, performer.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Genre:

Operas.

Streaming audio.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, England] : Academy of Ancient Music, 2020.

System Details:

digital

audio file

Contents:

Overture (taken from Eccles' Rinaldo and Armida, 1699) (1:00)

Act I. Scene 1. Behold auspicious flashes rise / Chief Priest (1:34)

Lucky omens bless our rites (taken from From This Happy Day, in Eccles' Birthday Ode for 1703, used as basis for reconstruction) / Second Priest and Chief Priest (:50)

Daughter, obey, hear, and obey / Cadmus and Athamas (:53)

Ah me! What refuge now is left me? / Semele (:29)

See, she blushing turns her eyes / Athamas (2:47)

Hymen haste, thy torch prepare / Athamas (2:16)

Alas! She yields, and has undone me / Ino, Athamas and Semele (1:35)

Why dost thou thus untimely grieve? / Cadmus, Ino, Athamas and Semele (1:18)

Symphony (1:47)

Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! / Athamas (:19)

Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs! / Chief Priest, Second Priest, Third Priest (:39)

Again auspicious flashes rise / Chief Priest, Second Priest, Athamas and Semele (1:00)

Symphony (1:16)

Cease your vows / Chief Priest (:11)

Scene 2. O Athamas, what torture hast thou born! / Athamas (:34)

Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes / Ino (:54)

She weeps! / Athamas (2:45)

Such unavailing mercy is in beauty found / Athamas (:20)

Ah me, too much afflicted! / Ino and Athamas (1:05)

You've undone me / Ino and Athamas (2:17)

Scene 3. Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! / Cadmus, Athamas and Ino (2:14)

Scene 4. See, see, Jove's priests and holy augurs come / Cadmus (1:56)

Hail, Cadmus, hail! / Chief Priest, First Augur, Second Augur (:12)

Endless pleasure, endless love / First Augur (1:40)

Haste, haste, to sacrifice prepare / Chief Priest (1:49)

Cease your mourning / Priests and Augurs (:58)

Act II. Scene 1. Symphony (2:27)

Iris, impatient of thy stay / Juno and Iris (1:02)

There from mortal cares retiring / Iris (1:27)

Thither Flora the fair / Iris (2:00)

No more - I'll hear no more / Juno (2:49)

Not one of curst Agenor's race I'll spare / Juno (1:21)

Hear, mighty queen / Iris and Juno (:30)

Scene 2. See, after the toils of an amorous fight / Cupid (1:39)

Come zephyrs, come, while cupid sings / Cupid (2:44)

Dance of the zephyrs (taken from Eccles' A Sett of Aires Made for The Queen's Coronation, movement 8) (1:25)

O sleep, why dost thou leave me? / Semele (:56)

Scene 3. Sleep forsaking / Cupid (:56)

Let me not another moment / Semele (1:42)

Lay thy doubts and fears aside / Jupiter (:18)

Nor was I absent / Jupiter (3:11)

If cheerful hopes / Semele (:20)

If this be love, not you alone / Semele and Jupiter (3:01)

Ah me!/Why sighs my Semele? / Semele and Jupiter (1:13)

With my frailty don't upbraid me / Semele (2:26)

Thy sex of Jove's the masterpiece / Jupiter and Semele (1:41)

Thy needless fears remove / Jupiter (1:20)

By my command / Jupiter and Semele (1:07)

Scene 4. Symphony (taken from Eccles' Rinaldo and Armida, 1699) (1:47)

Act III. Scene 1. Symphony (1:09)

Somnus, awake / Juno and Iris (:38)

Leave me, loathsome light / Somnus (2:56)

Dull God, can'st thou attend the waters fall / Iris and Juno (:27)

Only love on sleep has pow'r / Juno and Iris (2:17)

Somnus, arise / Juno (:29)

More sweet is that name / Somnus (2:00)

My will obey / Juno and Somnus (1:48)

Away let us haste / Juno and Somnus (1:18)

Scene 2. I love and am lov'd / Semele (2:33)

Thus shaped like Ino / Juno and Semele (1:03)

Behold in this mirrour / Juno (1:11)

O ecstasy of happiness! / Semele (:54)

Ah charming all o'er! / Semele (:36)

Be wise as you are beautiful / Juno and Semele (:23)

Unknowing your intent / Juno (1:47)

But how shall I attain to immortality / Semele and Juno (1:23)

Thus let my thanks be paid / Semele (1:23)

Rich odours fill the fragrant air / Juno and Semele (:37)

Scene 4. Come to my arms, my lovely fair / Jupiter (2:50)

Tho' 'tis easie to please you / Semele (:56)

When I languish with anguish / Jupiter (:42)

I dare not/Ah fear not / Semele and Jupiter (:42)

Oh Semele, why art thou thus insensible? / Jupiter (:15)

I ever am granting / Semele (:32)

Speak, speak your desire / Jupiter (:38)

Swear by the Stygian Lake / Semele and Jupiter (:26)

Then cast off this human shape which you wear / Semele (1:31)

Ah! take heed what you press / Jupiter (1:39)

I'll be pleas'd with no less / Semele (:30)

Scene 5. Ah! Whither is she gone! / Jupiter (2:02)

Scene 6. Above measure is the pleasure / Juno (2:08)

Scene 7. Symphony (1:40)

Ah me! too late I now repent / Semele (:50)

Symphony (:14)

Scene 8. Of my ill-boding dream / Ino, Cadmus and Athamas (1:56)

Scene 9. Apollo comes to relieve your care / Apollo (:58)

From tyrannous love / Apollo (:59)

Then mortals be merry / Apollo (:59)

Then mortals be merry / Chorus (1:43).

Participant:

Academy of Ancient Music ; Cambridge Handel Opera Company ; Julian Perkins, harpsichord, director, conductor ; Bojan C̆ic̆ić, violin, leader ; Timothy Amherst, violone ; Jonathan Rees, bass violin ; Elin White, Iona Davies, Sijie Chen, Davina Clarke, Liz McCarthy, Bill Thorp, Emilia Benjamin, Jonathan Rees, Gavin Kibble, violins ; Jane Rogers, Jordan Bowron, Carmen Maria Martinez, violas ; William Carter, theorbo, guitar ; Reiko Ichise, bass viol ; Peter Holman, harpsichord ; Elaine So, thunder sheet.

Gods: Richard Burkhard (Jupiter, King of the Gods), baritone voice ; Helen Charlston (Juno, Queen of the Gods), mezzo-soprano voice ; Héloïse Bernard (Iris, handmaid to Juno), soprano voice ; Bethany Horak-Hallett (Cupid, God of Love), mezzo-soprano voice ; Christopher Foster (Somnus, God of Sleep), bass voice ; Jolyon Loy (Apollo, Sun God and God of Prophecy), baritone voice.

Mortals: Jonathan Brown (Cadmus, King of Thebes), baritone voice ; Anna Dennis (Semele, daughter of Cadmus), soprano voice ; Aoife Miskelly (Ino, sister of Semele), soprano voice ; William Wallace (Athamas, a prince of Boeotia), tenor voice ; Graeme Broadbent (Chief Priest), bass voice ; Rory Carver (Second Priest, First Augur), tenor voice ; James Rhoads (Third Priest, Second Augur), tenor voice.

Notes:

Recorded St. Jude-on-the-Hill, London, England 2019.

Eccles' opera premiered around 1707. Julian Perkins conducts the Academy of Ancient Music.

Libretto by William Congreve.

Hard copy version record.

Other Format:

Source record: Eccles, John, -1735. Semele.

OCLC:

1260451327

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