2002

Hercules (HWV 60)

George Frideric Handel

baroqueclassical

Tracklist

Overtura

4:32

Menuetto

2:02

Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks

2:01

Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown

5:45

Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?

0:50

Aria: The world, when day's career is run

4:30

Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire!

1:25

Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!

1:33

Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast

0:58

Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined

3:21

Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend

0:26

Aria: Where congealed the northern streams

1:53

Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love!

5:18

Recitativo: Banish your fears!

0:30

Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away

3:26

Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds

0:54

Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train

1:20

Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late

2:25

March

1:49

Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee

1:27

Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see

5:56

Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!

0:25

Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field

2:23

Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope

0:26

Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!

5:55

Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day

2:28

Sinfonia

1:11

Recitativo: Why was I born a princess

0:18

Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell

5:56

Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs

0:38

Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears

2:47

Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?

1:10

Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove

5:52

Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor

0:19

Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!

0:16

Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest

5:17

Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe

1:45

Aria: Banish love from thy breast

2:17

Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways

0:10

Aria: From celestial seats descending

5:36

Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires

2:03

Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles

0:44

Aria: Alcides' name in latest story

4:47

Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!

0:29

Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils

4:55

Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!

1:29

Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise

3:49

Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear

1:26

Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear

3:54

Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy

1:15

Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r

2:32

Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove

0:17

Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand

3:55

Sinfonia

3:53

Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief

1:26

Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe

3:06

Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread

4:14

Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this

2:23

Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!

2:09

Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread

4:03

Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?

6:13

Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!

1:16

Aria: My breast with tender pity swells

6:49

Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand

1:46

Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky

1:50

Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions

1:06

Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire

3:26

Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime

0:17

Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong

2:35

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