Handel: Hercules (COMPLETE)

omplete oratorio (musical drama) by George Frederic Handel: Hercules (1744). PART 1 00:00 1. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Overtura   2. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Menuetto   3. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks   4. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown   5. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?   6. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: The world, when day’s career is run   7. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best...   8. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!   9. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast   10. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined   11. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend   12. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Where congealed the northern streams   13. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: O filial piety! O gen’rous love!   14. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Banish your fears!   15. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away!   16. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds   17. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train   18. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late   19. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: March   20. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Thanks to the pow’rs above, but chief to thee   21. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see   22. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!   23. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field   24. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope   25. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!   26. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: Crown with festal pomp the day PART 2 01:04:10  1. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Sinfonia   2. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Why was I born a princess   3. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell   4. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs   5. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: When beauty sorrow’s liv’ry wears   6. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?   7. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Ah! think what ills the jealous prove   8. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false   9. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!   10. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest   11. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe   12. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Banish love from thy breast   13. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: From celestial seats descending   14. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires   15. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles   16. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Alcides’ name in latest story   17. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!   18. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Resign thy club and lion’s spoils   19. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied   20. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise   21. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Some kinder pow’r inspire me/   22. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole, Retire!   23. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow’r   24. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove   25. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand PART 3 02:09:28   1. Sinfonia   2. Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief   3. Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe   4. Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread   5. Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! what land is this   6. Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!   7. Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread   8. Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?   9. Recitativo: Lo! the fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!   10. Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: ls   11. Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! whose heav’n-directed hand   12. Aria: He, who for Atlas prop’d the sky   13. Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions   14. Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire   15. Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev’ry clime   16. Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Gidon Saks, Richard Croft, Lynne Dawson Les Musiciens du Louvre Marc Minkowski