Handel: Hercules - CD

CD - 1

George Frideric Handel

Hercules, HWV 60 (1744)

 

1. Act I: Overture

00:04:12

 

2. Act I: Menuetto

00:02:10

 

3. Act I: Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas)

00:01:30

 

4. Act I: Aria: No longer, fate, relentless frown (Lichas)

00:05:36

 

5. Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me? (Dejanira)

00:00:42

 

6. Act I: Aria: The world, when day's career is run (Dejanira)

00:03:17

 

7. Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)

00:01:44

 

8. Act I: Arioso: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast (Hyllus)

00:01:38

 

9. Act I: Recitative: He said the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)

00:00:54

 

10. Act I: Aria: There, in myrtle shades reclin'd (Dejanira)

00:02:21

 

11. Act I: Recitative: Despair not, but let rising hope suspend (Hyllus)

00:00:40

 

12. Act I: Aria: Where congeal'd the northern streams (Hyllus)

00:02:03

 

13. Act I: O filial piety, O gen'rous love! (Chorus)

00:05:17

 

14. Act I: Recitative: Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives (Lichas, Dejanira)

00:00:31

 

15. Act I: Aria: Begone, my fears, fly hence, away (Dejanira)

00:03:30

 

16. Act I: Recitative: A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)

00:01:03

 

17. Act I: Aria: The smiling hours of joyful train (Lichas)

00:04:09

 

18. Act I: Let none despair; relief may come though late (Chorus)

00:02:43

 

19. Act I: Recitative: Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)

00:01:27

 

20. Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, bright liberty! (Iole)

00:08:45

 

21. Act I: Recitative: But hark! The victor comes! (Iole)

00:00:08

 

22. Act I: March

00:01:47

 

23. Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the pow'rs above (Hercules, Iole)

00:01:43

 

24. Act I: Aria: My father! Ah, methinks I see (Iole)

00:05:21

 

25. Act I: Recitative: Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time (Hercules)

00:00:28

 

26. Act I: Aria: The God of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules)

00:02:50

 

27. Act I: Crown with festal pomp the day (Chorus)

00:03:01

CD - 2

George Frideric Handel

Hercules, HWV 60 (1744)

 

1. Act II: Sinfonia

00:01:21

 

2. Act II: Recitative: Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high (Iole)

00:00:23

 

3. Act II: Aria: How blest the maid ordained to dwell (Iole)

00:05:25

 

4. Act II: Recitative: It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)

00:01:33

 

5. Act II: Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira)

00:03:17

 

6. Act II: Recitative: Whence this unjust suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)

00:01:16

 

7. Act II: Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! (Iole)

00:06:00

 

8. Act II: Recitative: It is too sure that Hercules is false (Dejanira)

00:00:06

 

9. Act II: Recitative: My godlike master? (Lichas, Dejanira)

00:00:16

 

10. Act II: Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear (Lichas)

00:05:06

 

11. Act II: Recitative: In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)

00:00:16

 

12. Act II: Jealousy! Infernal pest (Chorus)

00:04:23

 

13. Act II: Recitative: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole)

00:02:30

 

14. Act II: Aria: Banish love from thy breast (Iole)

00:05:00

 

15. Act II: Recitative: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways (Hyllus)

00:00:14

 

16. Act II: Aria: From celestial seats descending (Hyllus)

00:04:44

 

17. Act II: Wanton god of amorous fires (Chorus)

00:02:19

 

18. Act II: Recitative: Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules)

00:00:41

 

19. Act II: Aria: Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules)

00:04:32

 

20. Act II: Recitative: O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Dejanira)

00:00:29

 

21. Act II: Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira)

00:04:48

 

22. Act II: Recitative: You are deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)

00:01:22

 

23. Act II: Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira)

00:02:40

 

24. Act II: Recitative: Some kinder pow'r inspire me to regain (Dejanira, Lichas)

00:01:18

 

25. Act II: Aria: Constant lovers never roving (Lichas)

00:02:02

 

26. Act II: Recitative: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole)

00:01:26

 

27. Act II: Aria: Still caressing and caress'd (Iole)

00:02:11

 

28. Act II: Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)

00:03:00

 

29. Act II: Recitative: Father of Hercules, great Jove, oh help (Dejanira)

00:00:17

 

30. Act II: Love and Hymen, hand in hand (Chorus)

00:04:28

CD - 3

George Frideric Handel

Hercules, HWV 60 (1744)

 

1. Act III: Sinfonia

00:03:05

 

2. Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)

00:01:40

 

3. Act III: Aria: O scene of unexampled woe (Lichas)

00:02:52

 

4. Act III: Recitative: O fatal jealousy (First Trachinian)

00:00:17

 

5. Act III: Tyrants now no more shall dread (Chorus)

00:03:04

 

6. Act III: Aria: O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst (Hercules)

00:02:26

 

7. Act III: Recitative: Great Jove, relieve his pains! (Hyllus)

00:00:07

 

8. Act III: Accompagnato: Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore? (Hercules, Hyllus)

00:02:06

 

9. Act III: Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread (Hyllus)

00:04:36

 

10. Act III: Accompagnato: Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head? (Dejanira)

00:06:00

 

11. Act III: Recitative: Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)

00:01:14

 

12. Act III: Aria: My breast with tender pity swells (Iole)

00:07:01

 

13. Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Princess, rejoice, whose Heav'n-directed hand (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira)

00:01:55

 

14. Act III: Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky (Lichas)

00:02:05

 

15. Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter)

00:00:48

 

16. Act III: Recitative: How blest is Hyllus, if the lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole)

00:00:21

 

17. Act III: Duet: Oh prince, whose virtues all admire (Iole, Hyllus)

00:03:29

 

18. Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime (Priest of Jupiter)

00:00:20

 

19. Act III: To him your grateful notes of praise belong (Chorus)

00:03:34