℗ 2021 Academy of Ancient Music
Released January 29, 2021
Duration 2h 00m 42s
Record Label Academy of Ancient Music
Catalogue No. AAM012
Genre Classical (Opera)
 

Eccles: Semele

Academy of Ancient Music, Julian Perkins, Graeme Broadbent, Rory Carver, William Wallace, Jonathan Brown, Anna Dennis, Aoife Miskelly, James Rhoads, Helen Charlston, Héloïse Bernard, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Richard Burkhard, Christopher Foster, Jolyon Loy

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Semele  
1.1
Overture
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:35
Semele, Act I Scene 1  
1.2
Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:50
1.3
Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Rory Carver; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:53
1.4
Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey
John Eccles; William Wallace; Jonathan Brown; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:29
1.5
Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:47
1.6
See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
John Eccles; William Wallace; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:16
1.7
Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
John Eccles; William Wallace; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:34
1.8
Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:18
1.9
Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Jonathan Brown; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:47
1.10
Symphony (1)
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:18
1.11
Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (1)
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:39
1.12
Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (2)
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Rory Carver; James Rhoads; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:59
1.13
Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; William Wallace; Graeme Broadbent; Rory Carver; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:15
1.14
Symphony (2)
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:11
1.15
Cease Your Vows
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:34
Semele, Act I Scene 2  
1.16
O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born!
John Eccles; William Wallace; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:54
1.17
Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
John Eccles; Aoife Miskelly; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:45
1.18
She Weeps!
John Eccles; William Wallace; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:20
1.19
Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found
John Eccles; William Wallace; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:04
1.20
Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted!
John Eccles; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:17
1.21
You've Undone Me
John Eccles; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:14
Semele, Act I Scene 3  
1.22
Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!
John Eccles; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Jonathan Brown; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:55
Semele, Act I Scene 4  
1.23
See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come
John Eccles; Jonathan Brown; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:12
1.24
Hail, Cadmus, Hail!
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Rory Carver; James Rhoads; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:40
1.25
Endless Pleasure, Endless Love
John Eccles; Rory Carver; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:49
1.26
Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:58
1.27
Cease Your Mourning
John Eccles; Graeme Broadbent; Rory Carver; James Rhoads; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:27
Semele, Act II Scene 1  
1.28
Symphony
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:01
1.29
Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:26
1.30
There from Mortal Cares Retiring
John Eccles; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:00
1.31
Thither Flora the Fair
John Eccles; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:48
1.32
No More, I'll Hear No More
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:20
1.33
Not One of Curst Agenor's Race I'll Spare
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:29
1.34
Hear, Mighty Queen
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:39
Semele, Act II Scene 2  
1.35
See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight
John Eccles; Bethany Horak-Hallett; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:44
1.36
Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
John Eccles; Bethany Horak-Hallett; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:24
1.37
Dance of the Zephyrs
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:56
1.38
O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:53
Semele, Act II Scene 3  
1.39
Sleep Forsaking
John Eccles; Bethany Horak-Hallett; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:42
1.40
Let Me Not Another Moment
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:18
1.41
Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
3:11
1.42
Nor Was I Absent
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:20
1.43
If Cheerful Hopes
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:27
1.44
If This Be Love, Not You Alone
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:34
1.45
Ah Me!
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:12
1.46
With My Frailty Don't Upbraid Me
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:25
1.47
Thy Sex of Jove's the Masterpiece
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:40
1.48
Thy Needless Fears Remove
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:20
1.49
By My Command
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:07
Semele, Act II Scene 4  
1.50
Symphony
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:45
Semele, Act III Scene 1  
2.1
Symphony
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:08
2.2
Somnus, Awake
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:38
2.3
Leave Me, Loathsome Light
John Eccles; Christopher Foster; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:56
2.4
Dull God, Can'st Thou Attend the Waters Fall
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:27
2.5
Only Love on Sleep Has Pow'r
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Héloïse Bernard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:17
2.6
Somnus, Arise
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:29
2.7
More Sweet Is That Name
John Eccles; Christopher Foster; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:00
2.8
My Will Obey
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Christopher Foster; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:47
2.9
Away Let Us Haste
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Christopher Foster; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:18
Semele, Act III Scene 2  
2.10
I Love and Am Lov'd
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:33
Semele, Act III Scene 3  
2.11
Thus Shaped Like Ino
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:02
2.12
Behold in This Mirrour
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:11
2.13
O Ecstasy of Happiness!
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:54
2.14
Ah Charming All O'er!
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:36
2.15
Be Wise as You Are Beautiful
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:23
2.16
Unknowing Your Intent
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:47
2.17
But How Shall I Attain to Immortality?
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:23
2.18
Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:22
2.19
Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:37
Semele, Act III Scene 4  
2.20
Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:50
2.21
Tho' 'Tis Easie to Please You
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:57
2.22
When I Languish with Anguish
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:42
2.23
I Dare Not
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:44
2.24
Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:15
2.25
I Ever Am Granting
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:31
2.26
Speak, Speak Your Desire
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:37
2.27
Swear by the Stygian Lake
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:25
2.28
Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:30
2.29
Ah! Take Heed What You Press
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:39
2.30
I'll Be Pleas'd with No Less
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:36
Semele, Act III Scene 5  
2.31
Ah! Whither Is She Gone!
John Eccles; Richard Burkhard; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:02
Semele, Act III Scene 6  
2.32
Above Measure Is the Pleasure
John Eccles; Helen Charlston; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
2:08
Semele, Act III Scene 7  
2.33
Symphony (1)
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:39
2.34
Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:49
2.35
Symphony (2)
John Eccles; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:14
Semele, Act III Scene 8  
2.36
Of My Ill-Boding Dream
John Eccles; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Jonathan Brown; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:56
Semele, Act III Scene 9  
2.37
Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care
John Eccles; Jolyon Loy; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:58
2.38
From Tyrannous Love
John Eccles; Jolyon Loy; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:59
2.39
Then Mortals Be Merry (1)
John Eccles; Jolyon Loy; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
0:59
2.40
Then Mortals Be Merry (2)
John Eccles; Anna Dennis; Richard Burkhard; Helen Charlston; William Wallace; Aoife Miskelly; Héloïse Bernard; Graeme Broadbent; Jonathan Brown; Rory Carver; Christopher Foster; Bethany Horak-Hallett; Jolyon Loy; James Rhoads; Academy of Ancient Music; Julian Perkins
1:43
Digital Booklet
Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Academy of Ancient Music join forces for the first time for a rare concert performance of John Eccles’ Semele. Semele is a lively retelling of the story of Jupiter’s pursuit of the Theban princess. Juno plots her downfall by persuading her to insist on seeing him in his divine form, whereupon his thunderbolts consume her. Planned for the opening of London’s Italian Opera House, Semele was never performed at the time, and the libretto is best known today from Handel’s later Oratorio. It is a highly dramatic and effective response to the text in an attractive idiom mixing English and Italian elements and deserves to be better known.
192 kHz / 24-bit, 96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Academy of Ancient Music Studio Masters
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Overture
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1.2
Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise
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1.3
Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites
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1.4
Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey
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1.5
Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me?
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See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes
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1.7
Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare
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Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me
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1.9
Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve?
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Symphony (1)
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Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (1)
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Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow'rs! (2)
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Again Auspicious Flashes Rise
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1.14
Symphony (2)
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1.15
Cease Your Vows
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1.16
O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born!
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1.17
Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes
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1.18
She Weeps!
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1.19
Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found
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Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted!
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1.21
You've Undone Me
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Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom'd to Disastrous Love!
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See, See, Jove's Priests and Holy Augurs Come
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1.24
Hail, Cadmus, Hail!
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Endless Pleasure, Endless Love
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Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare
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Cease Your Mourning
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Symphony
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Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay
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1.30
There from Mortal Cares Retiring
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1.31
Thither Flora the Fair
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1.32
No More, I'll Hear No More
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1.33
Not One of Curst Agenor's Race I'll Spare
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Hear, Mighty Queen
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See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight
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Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings
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Dance of the Zephyrs
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O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?
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Sleep Forsaking
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Let Me Not Another Moment
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Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside
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Nor Was I Absent
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If Cheerful Hopes
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1.44
If This Be Love, Not You Alone
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Ah Me!
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With My Frailty Don't Upbraid Me
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Thy Sex of Jove's the Masterpiece
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1.48
Thy Needless Fears Remove
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1.49
By My Command
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1.50
Symphony
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Symphony
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Somnus, Awake
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Leave Me, Loathsome Light
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Dull God, Can'st Thou Attend the Waters Fall
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Only Love on Sleep Has Pow'r
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Somnus, Arise
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More Sweet Is That Name
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My Will Obey
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Away Let Us Haste
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I Love and Am Lov'd
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Thus Shaped Like Ino
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Behold in This Mirrour
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O Ecstasy of Happiness!
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Ah Charming All O'er!
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Be Wise as You Are Beautiful
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Unknowing Your Intent
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But How Shall I Attain to Immortality?
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Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid
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Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air
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Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair
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Tho' 'Tis Easie to Please You
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When I Languish with Anguish
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I Dare Not
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Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible?
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I Ever Am Granting
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Speak, Speak Your Desire
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Swear by the Stygian Lake
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Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear
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Ah! Take Heed What You Press
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I'll Be Pleas'd with No Less
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Ah! Whither Is She Gone!
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Above Measure Is the Pleasure
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Symphony (1)
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Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent
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Symphony (2)
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Of My Ill-Boding Dream
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Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care
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From Tyrannous Love
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Then Mortals Be Merry (1)
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Then Mortals Be Merry (2)
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