Hercules

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

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Hercules, HWV 60: Overture6:59
  2. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"1:32
  3. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"5:54
  4. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!": Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"4:56
  5. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"1:39
  6. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"1:30
  7. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!": Aria:"There in myrtle .."3:27
  8. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!": Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"2:55
  9. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"3:38
  10. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!": Aria: "Begone, my fears"4:12
  11. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"0:58
  12. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: March1:39
  13. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"2:04
  14. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"6:12
  15. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!": Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"3:43
  16. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"2:38
  17. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"3:21
  18. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"4:12
  19. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"1:22
  20. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"6:03
  21. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"0:25
  22. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"5:50

CD 2

  1. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"1:21
  2. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"6:05
  3. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"1:54
  4. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate": Aria: "Alcides' name"5:52
  5. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern": Aria: "Resign thy club"6:18
  6. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"1:34
  7. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"3:27
  8. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"2:30
  9. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"3:06
  10. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules": Chorus: "Love and Hymen"4:44
  11. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Sinfonia2:46
  12. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"1:36
  13. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"2:53
  14. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"2:56
  15. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"2:25
  16. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"2:14
  17. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"2:16
  18. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"5:52
  19. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"1:34
  20. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"7:37
  21. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"2:03
  22. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"1:07
  23. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"2:16
  24. Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom": Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"3:11