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Einführung zu Semele von John Eliot Gardiner
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Ouvertüre (1. Akt)
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Gavotte
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Accompagnato: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise
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Chor: Lucky omens bless our rites
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Rezitativ, Arioso und Duett: Daughter, obey
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Rezitativ: Ah me!
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Arie: O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose
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Rezitativ: Alas! she yields
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Quartett: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve
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Chor: Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs
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Rezitativ: Again auspicious flashes rise - Rezitativ: Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!
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Chor: Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed
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Rezitativ: Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes - Rezitativ: She weeps!
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Arie: Your tuneful voice my tale would tell
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Rezitativ: Too well I see
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Duett: You've undone me
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Rezitativ: Ah! wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love! - Accompagnato: Wing'd with our fears and pious hate
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Chor: Hail Cadmus, hail!
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Arie und Chor: Endless pleasure, endless love
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Applaus
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Sinfonia (2. Akt)
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Rezitativ: Iris, impatient of thy stay
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Arie: There, from mortal cares retiring - Rezitativ: No more, I'll hear no more
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Accompagnato: Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy! - Rezitativ: Hear, mighty queen, while I recount - Accompagnato: ...
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Arie: Hence, Iris, hence away
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Arie: Come, zephyrs, come, while Cupid sings
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Arie: O sleep, why dost thou leave me
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Rezitativ: Let me not another moment
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Arie: Lay your doubts and fears aside
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Rezitativ: You are mortal and require
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Arie: With fond desiring
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Chor: How engaging, how endearing
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Rezitativ: Ah, me! - Why sighs my Semele?
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Arie: I must with speed amuse her
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Chor: Now love that everlasting boy invites
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Rezitativ: By my command
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Arie: Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade
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Rezitativ: Dear sister, how was your passage hither?
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Arie: But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round
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Prepare then, ye immortal choir
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Chor: Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays
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Applaus
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Sinfonia (3. Akt)
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Accompagnato: Somnus, awake
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Arie: Leave me, loathsome light
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Rezitativ: Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall
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Arie: More sweet is that name
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Rezitativ: My will obey
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Obey my will, thy rod resign
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Arie: My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed
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Rezitativ: Thus shap'd like Ino
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Arie: Myself I shall adore
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Rezitativ: Be wise as you are beautiful - Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath
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Arie: Thus let my thanks be paid
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Rezitativ: Rich odours fill the fragrant air
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Arie: Come to my arms, my lovely fair
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Rezitativ: O Semele! - Arie: I ever am granting
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Rezitativ: Speak, speak your desire - Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood, I swear - Rezitativ: You'll grant what I..
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Arie: Ah, take heed what you press
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Arie: No, no, I'll take no less
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Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone, unhappy fair?
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Arie: Above measure
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Accompagnato: Ah me! Too late I now repent
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Chor: O terror and astonishment
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Rezitativ: How I was hence remov'd
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Arie: Despair no more shall wound me
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Rezitativ: See from above the bellying clouds descend
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Sinfonia
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Accompagnato: Apollo comes, to relieve your care
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Happy, happy shall we be
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Applaus - Abspann