HANDEL: Hercules

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Hercules, HWV 60 (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Liselotte Kuhn, soprano
Gerlinde Samann, soprano
Franz Schneider, bass
Franz Vitzthum,
Knut Schoch, tenor
Nicola Wemyss, soprano
Peter Kooij, bass


1. Act I: Overture - 04:12
2. Act I: Menuetto - 02:10
3. Act I: Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas) - 01:30
4. Act I: Aria: No longer, fate, relentless frown (Lichas) - 05:36
5. Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me? (Dejanira) - 00:42
6. Act I: Aria: The world, when day's career is run (Dejanira) - 03:17
7. Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus) - 01:44
8. Act I: Arioso: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast (Hyllus) - 01:38
9. Act I: Recitative: He said the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira) - 00:54
10. Act I: Aria: There, in myrtle shades reclin'd (Dejanira) - 02:21
11. Act I: Recitative: Despair not, but let rising hope suspend (Hyllus) - 00:40
12. Act I: Aria: Where congeal'd the northern streams (Hyllus) - 02:03
13. Act I: O filial piety, O gen'rous love! (Chorus) - 05:17
14. Act I: Recitative: Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives (Lichas, Dejanira) - 00:31
15. Act I: Aria: Begone, my fears, fly hence, away (Dejanira) - 03:30
16. Act I: Recitative: A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira) - 01:03
17. Act I: Aria: The smiling hours of joyful train (Lichas) - 04:09
18. Act I: Let none despair; relief may come though late (Chorus) - 02:43
19. Act I: Recitative: Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian) - 01:27
20. Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, bright liberty! (Iole) - 08:45
21. Act I: Recitative: But hark! The victor comes! (Iole) - 00:08
22. Act I: March - 01:47
23. Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the pow'rs above (Hercules, Iole) - 01:43
24. Act I: Aria: My father! Ah, methinks I see (Iole) - 05:21
25. Act I: Recitative: Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time (Hercules) - 00:28
26. Act I: Aria: The God of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules) - 02:50
27. Act I: Crown with festal pomp the day (Chorus) - 03:01

Hercules, HWV 60 (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Liselotte Kuhn, soprano
Gerlinde Samann, soprano
Franz Schneider, bass
Franz Vitzthum,
Knut Schoch, tenor
Nicola Wemyss, soprano
Peter Kooij, bass


1. Act II: Sinfonia - 01:21
2. Act II: Recitative: Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high (Iole) - 00:23
3. Act II: Aria: How blest the maid ordained to dwell (Iole) - 05:25
4. Act II: Recitative: It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole) - 01:33
5. Act II: Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira) - 03:17
6. Act II: Recitative: Whence this unjust suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira) - 01:16
7. Act II: Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! (Iole) - 06:00
8. Act II: Recitative: It is too sure that Hercules is false (Dejanira) - 00:06
9. Act II: Recitative: My godlike master? (Lichas, Dejanira) - 00:16
10. Act II: Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear (Lichas) - 05:06
11. Act II: Recitative: In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise (Dejanira, Lichas) - 00:16
12. Act II: Jealousy! Infernal pest (Chorus) - 04:23
13. Act II: Recitative: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole) - 02:30
14. Act II: Aria: Banish love from thy breast (Iole) - 05:00
15. Act II: Recitative: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways (Hyllus) - 00:14
16. Act II: Aria: From celestial seats descending (Hyllus) - 04:44
17. Act II: Wanton god of amorous fires (Chorus) - 02:19
18. Act II: Recitative: Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules) - 00:41
19. Act II: Aria: Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules) - 04:32
20. Act II: Recitative: O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Dejanira) - 00:29
21. Act II: Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira) - 04:48
22. Act II: Recitative: You are deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira) - 01:22
23. Act II: Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira) - 02:40
24. Act II: Recitative: Some kinder pow'r inspire me to regain (Dejanira, Lichas) - 01:18
25. Act II: Aria: Constant lovers never roving (Lichas) - 02:02
26. Act II: Recitative: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole) - 01:26
27. Act II: Aria: Still caressing and caress'd (Iole) - 02:11
28. Act II: Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r (Dejanira, Iole) - 03:00
29. Act II: Recitative: Father of Hercules, great Jove, oh help (Dejanira) - 00:17
30. Act II: Love and Hymen, hand in hand (Chorus) - 04:28

Hercules, HWV 60 (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Liselotte Kuhn, soprano
Gerlinde Samann, soprano
Franz Schneider, bass
Franz Vitzthum,
Knut Schoch, tenor
Nicola Wemyss, soprano
Peter Kooij, bass


1. Act III: Sinfonia - 03:05
2. Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief (Lichas, First Trachinian) - 01:40
3. Act III: Aria: O scene of unexampled woe (Lichas) - 02:52
4. Act III: Recitative: O fatal jealousy (First Trachinian) - 00:17
5. Act III: Tyrants now no more shall dread (Chorus) - 03:04
6. Act III: Aria: O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst (Hercules) - 02:26
7. Act III: Recitative: Great Jove, relieve his pains! (Hyllus) - 00:07
8. Act III: Accompagnato: Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore? (Hercules, Hyllus) - 02:06
9. Act III: Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread (Hyllus) - 04:36
10. Act III: Accompagnato: Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head? (Dejanira) - 06:00
11. Act III: Recitative: Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin! (Dejanira, Iole) - 01:14
12. Act III: Aria: My breast with tender pity swells (Iole) - 07:01
13. Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Princess, rejoice, whose Heav'n-directed hand (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira) - 01:55
14. Act III: Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky (Lichas) - 02:05
15. Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter) - 00:48
16. Act III: Recitative: How blest is Hyllus, if the lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole) - 00:21
17. Act III: Duet: Oh prince, whose virtues all admire (Iole, Hyllus) - 03:29
18. Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime (Priest of Jupiter) - 00:20
19. Act III: To him your grateful notes of praise belong (Chorus) - 03:34

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