Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Julian Perkins, Academy Of Ancient Music, Helen Charlston, Richard Burkhard – Eccles: Semele (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:00:40 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Academy of Ancient Music

Academy of Ancient Music, Cambridge Handel Opera Company, Cambridge Early Music and Julian Perkins are proud to present the first professional recording of John Eccles’s Semele (ca 1707), a notable early setting of the great English libretto by William Congreve better known in a version by Georg Friedrich Handel from 1744.

Academy of Ancient Music’s mission is to explore, reveal and preserve the great treasure house of baroque and classical music, and a spirit of newfound discovery runs through all our work : Eccles’s Semele is the next step on this journey, released here on a double album with an extensive accompanying full-color booklet containing scholarly essays, Stephen Fry’s modern re-telling of the story, autograph manuscript images of Eccles’ score, the full libretto text and much more.

A fascinating insight into how opera in England might have developed after Henry Purcell’s death had not Handel moved to London in 1712, Eccles’s Semele is the perfect addition to any baroque-music lover’s library.

Tracklist:
1-1. Academy of Ancient Music – Semele: Overture (02:35)
1-2. Graeme Broadbent – Behold Auspicious Flashes Rise (00:50)
1-3. Graeme Broadbent – Lucky Omens Bless Our Rites (00:52)
1-4. William Wallace – Daughter, Obey, Hear, and Obey (00:29)
1-5. Anna Dennis – Ah Me! What Refuge Now Is Left Me? (02:47)
1-6. William Wallace – See, She Blushing Turns Her Eyes (02:16)
1-7. William Wallace – Hymen Haste, Thy Torch Prepare (01:34)
1-8. Anna Dennis – Alas! She Yields, and Has Undone Me (01:18)
1-9. Anna Dennis – Why Dost Thou Thus Untimely Grieve? (01:47)
1-10. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (1) (00:18)
1-11. Graeme Broadbent – Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow’rs! (1) (00:39)
1-12. Graeme Broadbent – Avert These Omens, All Ye Pow’rs! (2) (00:59)
1-13. Anna Dennis – Again Auspicious Flashes Rise (01:15)
1-14. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (2) (00:11)
1-15. Graeme Broadbent – Cease Your Vows (00:34)
1-16. William Wallace – O Athamas, What Torture Hast Thou Born! (00:54)
1-17. Aoife Miskelly – Turn, Hopeless Lover, Turn Thy Eyes (02:45)
1-18. William Wallace – She Weeps! (00:20)
1-19. William Wallace – Such Unavailing Mercy Is in Beauty Found (01:04)
1-20. William Wallace – Ah Me, Too Much Afflicted! (02:17)
1-21. William Wallace – You’ve Undone Me (02:14)
1-22. William Wallace – Ah, Wretched Prince, Doom’d to Disastrous Love! (01:55)
1-23. Jonathan Brown – See, See, Jove’s Priests and Holy Augurs Come (00:12)
1-24. Graeme Broadbent – Hail, Cadmus, Hail! (01:40)
1-25. Rory Carver – Endless Pleasure, Endless Love (01:49)
1-26. Graeme Broadbent – Haste, Haste, to Sacrifice Prepare (00:58)
1-27. Graeme Broadbent – Cease Your Mourning (02:27)
1-28. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (01:01)
1-29. Helen Charlston – Iris, Impatient of Thy Stay (01:26)
1-30. Heloïse Bernard – There from Mortal Cares Retiring (02:00)
1-31. Heloïse Bernard – Thither Flora the Fair (02:48)
1-32. Helen Charlston – No More, I’ll Hear No More (01:20)
1-33. Helen Charlston – Not One of Curst Agenor’s Race I’ll Spare (00:29)
1-34. Helen Charlston – Hear, Mighty Queen (01:39)
1-35. Bethany Horak-Hallett – See, After the Toils of an Amorous Fight (02:44)
1-36. Bethany Horak-Hallett – Come Zephyrs, Come, While Cupid Sings (01:24)
1-37. Academy of Ancient Music – Dance of the Zephyrs (00:56)
1-38. Anna Dennis – O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (00:53)
1-39. Bethany Horak-Hallett – Sleep Forsaking (01:42)
1-40. Anna Dennis – Let Me Not Another Moment (00:18)
1-41. Richard Burkhard – Lay Thy Doubts and Fears Aside (03:11)
1-42. Richard Burkhard – Nor Was I Absent (00:20)
1-43. Anna Dennis – If Cheerful Hopes (01:27)
1-44. Anna Dennis – If This Be Love, Not You Alone (01:34)
1-45. Anna Dennis – Ah Me! (01:12)
1-46. Anna Dennis – With My Frailty Don’t Upbraid Me (02:25)
1-47. Anna Dennis – Thy Sex of Jove’s the Masterpiece (01:40)
1-48. Richard Burkhard – Thy Needless Fears Remove (01:20)
1-49. Anna Dennis – By My Command (01:07)
1-50. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (01:45)
2-1. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (01:08)
2-2. Helen Charlston – Somnus, Awake (00:38)
2-3. Christopher Foster – Leave Me, Loathsome Light (02:56)
2-4. Helen Charlston – Dull God, Can’st Thou Attend the Waters Fall (00:27)
2-5. Helen Charlston – Only Love on Sleep Has Pow’r (02:17)
2-6. Helen Charlston – Somnus, Arise (00:29)
2-7. Christopher Foster – More Sweet Is That Name (02:00)
2-8. Helen Charlston – My Will Obey (01:47)
2-9. Helen Charlston – Away Let Us Haste (01:18)
2-10. Anna Dennis – I Love and Am Lov’d (02:33)
2-11. Anna Dennis – Thus Shaped Like Ino (01:02)
2-12. Helen Charlston – Behold in This Mirrour (01:11)
2-13. Anna Dennis – O Ecstasy of Happiness! (00:54)
2-14. Anna Dennis – Ah Charming All O’er! (00:36)
2-15. Anna Dennis – Be Wise as You Are Beautiful (00:23)
2-16. Helen Charlston – Unknowing Your Intent (01:47)
2-17. Anna Dennis – But How Shall I Attain to Immortality? (01:23)
2-18. Anna Dennis – Thus Let My Thanks Be Paid (01:22)
2-19. Anna Dennis – Rich Odours Fill the Fragrant Air (00:37)
2-20. Richard Burkhard – Come to My Arms, My Lovely Fair (02:50)
2-21. Anna Dennis – Tho’ ‘Tis Easie to Please You (00:57)
2-22. Richard Burkhard – When I Languish with Anguish (00:42)
2-23. Anna Dennis – I Dare Not (00:44)
2-24. Richard Burkhard – Oh Semele, Why Art Thou Thus Insensible? (00:15)
2-25. Anna Dennis – I Ever Am Granting (00:31)
2-26. Richard Burkhard – Speak, Speak Your Desire (00:37)
2-27. Anna Dennis – Swear by the Stygian Lake (00:25)
2-28. Anna Dennis – Then Cast Off This Human Shape Which You Wear (01:30)
2-29. Richard Burkhard – Ah! Take Heed What You Press (01:39)
2-30. Anna Dennis – I’ll Be Pleas’d with No Less (00:36)
2-31. Richard Burkhard – Ah! Whither Is She Gone! (02:02)
2-32. Helen Charlston – Above Measure Is the Pleasure (02:08)
2-33. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (1) (01:39)
2-34. Anna Dennis – Ah Me! Too Late I Now Repent (00:49)
2-35. Academy of Ancient Music – Symphony (2) (00:14)
2-36. William Wallace – Of My Ill-Boding Dream (01:56)
2-37. Jolyon Loy – Apollo Comes to Relieve Your Care (00:58)
2-38. Jolyon Loy – From Tyrannous Love (00:59)
2-39. Jolyon Loy – Then Mortals Be Merry (1) (00:58)
2-40. Anna Dennis – Then Mortals Be Merry (2) (01:43)

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