Handel: Hercules - CD

CD: 1

George Frideric Handel

Hercules, HWV 60

 

1. Overture

06:58

 

2. Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

01:32

 

3. Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

05:54

 

4. Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

04:56

 

5. Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

01:39

 

6. Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

01:29

 

7. Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."

03:27

 

8. Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

02:54

 

9. Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

03:38

 

10. Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"

04:12

 

11. Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

00:57

 

12. March

01:38

 

13. Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"

02:03

 

14. Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

06:11

 

15. Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"

03:42

 

16. Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

02:37

 

17. Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

03:21

 

18. Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"

04:12

 

19. Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

01:22

 

20. Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"

06:02

 

21. Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

00:25

 

22. Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

05:50

CD: 2

George Frideric Handel

Hercules, HWV 60

 

1. Recit: "She knows my passion"

01:21

 

2. Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

06:04

 

3. Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

01:54

 

4. Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"

05:52

 

5. Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"

06:18

 

6. Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

01:33

 

7. Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

03:27

 

8. Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

02:29

 

9. Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

03:05

 

10. Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

04:44

 

11. Sinfonia

02:45

 

12. Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

01:35

 

13. Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

02:53

 

14. Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

02:56

 

15. Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

02:24

 

16. Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

02:14

 

17. Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

02:16

 

18. Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

05:51

 

19. Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

01:34

 

20. Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

07:37

 

21. Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

02:03

 

22. Recit: "Words are too faint"

01:06

 

23. Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

02:16

 

24. Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

03:11