Immerse yourself in the timeless elegance of George Frideric Handel's "Semele HWV 58," a masterful blend of classical, choral, and operatic brilliance. This 1997 release from Berlin Classics captures the essence of Handel's compositional genius, offering a rich and engaging experience that spans nearly two hours. The album is a complete performance of Handel's dramatic oratorio "Semele," a work that showcases his ability to weave intricate vocal lines with orchestral richness. Each track, from the opening "Overture" to the final "Larghetto e piano per tutto," is a testament to Handel's mastery of form and emotion. The choral and solo performances are particularly noteworthy, bringing to life the dramatic and lyrical depth of the score. Whether you're a seasoned classical enthusiast or a newcomer to Handel's work, this album offers a compelling journey through one of the Baroque era's most captivating compositions.
1997 edel Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH1997 edel Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH
Tracks
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - GavotteGeorge Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Thomas Thomaschke
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Lucky omens bless our rites"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Daughter, obey, Hear and obey!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Hermann Christian Polster, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Ah me, ah me! What refuge now is left me? - O Jove! In pity teach me which to choose"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "The morning lark to mine accords his note"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "See, she blushing turns her eyes"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Alas, she yields, and has undone me!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Ingeborg Springer, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Ingeborg Springer, Hermann Christian Polster, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Again auspicious flashes rise"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Hermann Christian Polster
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "O Athamas, what torture hast thou borne!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eye"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "She weeps!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Too well I see, Thou wilt not understand me"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "You've undone me - With my life I would atone"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Hermann Christian Polster, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Hermann Christian Polster
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer, Hermann Christian Polster, Siegfried Lorenz
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Hail, Cadmus, hail! Jove salutes the Theban King"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act I - "Endless pleasure, endless love"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - SymphonyGeorge Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Iris, impatient of thy stay"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Renate Hoff, Gisela Pohl
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "There, from mortal cares retiring"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Renate Hoff
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "No more, I'll hear no more!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Gisela Pohl
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Awake, Saturnia, from thy lethargy!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Renate Hoff, Gisela Pohl
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Hence, Iris, hence away"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Gisela Pohl
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Lay your doubts and fears aside"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "You are mortal and require time to rest"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "With fond desiring"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "How engaging, how endearing"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Ah me! - Why sighs my Semele?"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "I must with speed amuse her"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Now Love that everlasting boy invites"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Rundfunkchor Berlin
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "By my command"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Where'er you walk"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Eberhard Büchner
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Ingeborg Springer
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "But hark, the heav'nly sphere turns round"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Ingeborg Springer
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Prepare then, ye immortal choir!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Regina Werner, Ingeborg Springer
Semele, HWV 58: Act II - "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Radio Soloists
Semele, HWV 58: Act III - Larghetto e piano per tuttoGeorge Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
Semele, HWV 58: Act III - "Somnus, awake! Eaise thy reclining head!"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Renate Hoff, Gisela Pohl
Semele, HWV 58: Act III - "Leave me, loathsome light"George Frideric Handel, Helmut Koch, Berlin Rundfunk Symphonie Orchester, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Fritz Hübner