Hercules

Album by George Frideric Handel & Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner & Catherine Denley & Sarah Walker & Anthony Rolfe Johnson & John Tomlinson & Jennifer Smith & Peter Savidge

Hercules is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1745. The work blends operatic arias, recitatives and substantial choral writing with Baroque orchestral textures to create a dramatic, often sombre portrayal of its mythic subject, and it stands as one of Handel's mature London oratorios that explores darker, more tragic themes in his later career.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Overture
    6:58
  2. 2.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"
    1:32
  3. 3.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"
    5:54
  4. 4.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!": Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"
    4:56
  5. 5.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
    1:39
  6. 6.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"
    1:29
  7. 7.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!": Aria:"There in myrtle .."
    3:27
  8. 8.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!": Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"
    2:54
  9. 9.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
    3:38
  10. 10.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!": Aria: "Begone, my fears"
    4:12
  11. 11.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
    0:57
  12. 12.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: March
    1:38
  13. 13.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"
    2:03
  14. 14.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"
    6:11
  15. 15.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!": Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"
    3:42
  16. 16.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
    2:37
  17. 17.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"
    3:21
  18. 18.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"
    4:12
  19. 19.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
    1:22
  20. 20.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"
    6:02
  21. 21.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
    0:25
  22. 22.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
    5:50

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"
    1:21
  2. 3.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"
    6:04
  3. 4.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
    1:54
  4. 5.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate": Aria: "Alcides' name"
    5:52
  5. 6.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern": Aria: "Resign thy club"
    6:18
  6. 7.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
    1:33
  7. 8.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"
    3:27
  8. 9.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
    2:29
  9. 10.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
    3:05
  10. 11.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules": Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
    4:44
  11. 12.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Sinfonia
    2:45
  12. 13.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
    1:35
  13. 14.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"
    2:53
  14. 15.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
    2:56
  15. 16.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"
    2:24
  16. 17.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
    2:14
  17. 18.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"
    2:16
  18. 19.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"
    5:51
  19. 20.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
    1:34
  20. 21.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"
    7:37
  21. 22.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
    2:03
  22. 23.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"
    1:06
  23. 24.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
    2:16
  24. 25.
    Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom": Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
    3:11

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