Hercules

by George Frideric Handel; Nicola Wemyss, Gerlinde Sämann, Franz Vitzthum, Knut Schoch, Peter Kooij, Liselotte Kühn, Franz Schneider, Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Joachim Carlos Martini

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Overture4:10
  2. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Menuetto2:10
  3. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Accompagnato: See, With What Sad Dejection In Her Looks (Lichas)1:30
  4. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown (Lichas)5:35
  5. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, Why Art Thou Absent from Me? (Dejanira)0:41
  6. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The World, When Day's Career Is Run (Dejanira)3:16
  7. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be Comforted, and Hope the Best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)1:43
  8. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Arioso: I Feel, I Feel the God, He Swells My Breast (Hyllus)1:38
  9. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: He Said the Sacred Fury Left His Breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)0:54
  10. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: There, In Myrtle Shades Reclin'd (Dejanira)2:21
  11. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Despair Not, But Let Rising Hope Suspend (Hyllus)0:39
  12. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Where Congeal'd the Northern Streams (Hyllus)2:03
  13. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: O Filial Piety, O Gen'rous Love! (Chorus)5:16
  14. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Banish Your Fears! the Noble Hercules Lives (Lichas, Dejanira)0:31
  15. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Begone, My Fears, Fly Hence, Away (Dejanira)3:30
  16. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: A Train of Captives, Red With Honest Wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)1:02
  17. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The Smiling Hours of Joyful Train (Lichas)4:09
  18. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Let None Despair; Relief May Come Though Late (Chorus)2:43
  19. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Ye Faithful Followers of the Wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)1:26
  20. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, Bright Liberty! (Iole)8:44
  21. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: But Hark! the Victor Comes! (Iole)0:07
  22. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: March1:47
  23. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the Pow'rs Above (Hercules, Iole)1:42
  24. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: My Father! Ah, Methinks I See (Iole)5:20
  25. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Now Farewell, Arms! from Hence, the Tide of Time (Hercules)0:28
  26. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The God of Battle Quits the Bloody Field (Hercules)2:49
  27. Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Crown With Festal Pomp the Day (Chorus)3:00

CD 2

  1. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Sinfonia1:18
  2. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Why Was I Born a Princess, Rais'd On High (Iole)0:23
  3. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: How Blest the Maid Ordained to Dwell (Iole)5:24
  4. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: It Must Be So! Fame Speaks Aloud My Wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)1:33
  5. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: When Beauty Sorrow's Liv'ry Wears (Dejanira)3:17
  6. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Whence This Unjust Suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)1:16
  7. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Ah, Think What Ills the Jealous Prove! (Iole)5:59
  8. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: It Is Too Sure That Hercules Is False (Dejanira)0:05
  9. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: My Godlike Master? (Lichas, Dejanira)0:15
  10. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: As Stars, That Rise and Disappear (Lichas)5:05
  11. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: In Vain You Strive His Falsehood to Disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)0:16
  12. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Jealousy! Infernal Pest (Chorus)4:23
  13. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: She Knows My Passion, and Has Heard Me Breathe (Hyllus, Iole)2:30
  14. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Banish Love from Thy Breast (Iole)4:59
  15. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Forgive a Passion, Which Resistless Sways (Hyllus)0:14
  16. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: From Celestial Seats Descending (Hyllus)4:43
  17. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Wanton God of Amorous Fires (Chorus)2:18
  18. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Yes, I Congratulate Your Titles (Dejanira, Hercules)0:40
  19. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Alcides' Name In Latest Story (Hercules)4:31
  20. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: O, Glorious Pattern of Heroic Deeds! (Dejanira)0:28
  21. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Resign Thy Club and Lion's Spoils (Dejanira)4:48
  22. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: You Are Deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)1:22
  23. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Cease, Ruler of the Day, to Rise (Dejanira)2:39
  24. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Some Kinder Pow'r Inspire Me to Regain (Dejanira, Lichas)1:18
  25. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Constant Lovers Never Roving (Lichas)2:01
  26. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: But See, the Princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole)1:25
  27. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: Still Caressing and Caress'd (Iole)2:11
  28. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Duet: Joys of Freedom, Joys of Pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)2:59
  29. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Father of Hercules, Great Jove, Oh Help (Dejanira)0:17
  30. Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Love and Hymen, Hand In Hand (Chorus)4:27

CD 3

  1. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Sinfonia3:02
  2. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: Ye Sons of Trachin, Mourn Your Valiant Chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)1:39
  3. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Aria: O Scene of Unexampled Woe (Lichas)2:52
  4. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: O Fatal Jealousy (First Trachinian)0:16
  5. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Tyrants Now No More Shall Dread (Chorus)3:04
  6. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Aria: O Jove, What Land Is This, What Clime Accurst (Hercules)2:25
  7. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: Great Jove, Relieve His Pains! (Hyllus)0:06
  8. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Accompagnato: Was It for This Unnumber'd Toils I Bore? (Hercules, Hyllus)2:06
  9. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Aria: Let Not Fame the Tidings Spread (Hyllus)4:36
  10. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Accompagnato: Where Shall I Fly? Where Hide This Guilty Head? (Dejanira)5:59
  11. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: Lo! the Fair Fatal Cause of All This Ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)1:13
  12. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Aria: My Breast With Tender Pity Swells (Iole)7:01
  13. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Princess, Rejoice, Whose Heav'n-directed Hand (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira)1:55
  14. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Aria: He, Who for Atlas Prop'd the Sky (Lichas)2:04
  15. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Words Are Too Faint to Speak the Warring Passions (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter)0:47
  16. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: How Blest Is Hyllus, If the Lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole)0:20
  17. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Duet: Oh Prince, Whose Virtues All Admire (Iole, Hyllus)3:28
  18. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: Recitative: Ye Sons of Freedom, Now, In Every Clime (Priest of Jupiter)0:19
  19. Hercules, HWV 60, Act III: To Him Your Grateful Notes of Praise Belong (Chorus)3:34