Hercules (HWV 60)
Album by Handel; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Released 1 March 2002
Tracklist
- CD 1: CD 1
- 1OverturaGeorge Frideric Handel4:32
- 2MenuettoGeorge Frideric Handel2:02
- 3Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looksGeorge Frideric Handel2:01
- 4Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frownGeorge Frideric Handel5:45
- 5Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?George Frideric Handel0:50
- 6Aria: The world, when day's career is runGeorge Frideric Handel4:30
- 7Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire!George Frideric Handel1:25
- 8Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!George Frideric Handel1:33
- 9Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breastGeorge Frideric Handel0:58
- 10Aria: There in myrtle shades reclinedGeorge Frideric Handel3:21
- 11Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspendGeorge Frideric Handel0:26
- 12Aria: Where congealed the northern streamsGeorge Frideric Handel1:53
- 13Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love!George Frideric Handel5:18
- 14Recitativo: Banish your fears!George Frideric Handel0:30
- 15Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, awayGeorge Frideric Handel3:26
- 16Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest woundsGeorge Frideric Handel0:54
- 17Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful trainGeorge Frideric Handel1:20
- 18Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though lateGeorge Frideric Handel2:25
- 19MarchGeorge Frideric Handel1:49
- 20Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to theeGeorge Frideric Handel1:27
- 21Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I seeGeorge Frideric Handel5:56
- 22Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!George Frideric Handel0:25
- 23Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody fieldGeorge Frideric Handel2:23
- 24Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hopeGeorge Frideric Handel0:26
- 25Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!George Frideric Handel5:55
- 26Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the dayGeorge Frideric Handel2:28
- CD 2: CD 2
- 1SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel1:11
- 2Recitativo: Why was I born a princessGeorge Frideric Handel0:18
- 3Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwellGeorge Frideric Handel5:56
- 4Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongsGeorge Frideric Handel0:38
- 5Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wearsGeorge Frideric Handel2:47
- 6Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?George Frideric Handel1:10
- 7Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous proveGeorge Frideric Handel5:52
- 8Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitorGeorge Frideric Handel0:19
- 9Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!George Frideric Handel0:16
- 10Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pestGeorge Frideric Handel5:17
- 11Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breatheGeorge Frideric Handel1:45
- 12Aria: Banish love from thy breastGeorge Frideric Handel2:17
- 13Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless swaysGeorge Frideric Handel0:10
- 14Aria: From celestial seats descendingGeorge Frideric Handel5:36
- 15Chorus: Wanton god of amorous firesGeorge Frideric Handel2:03
- 16Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titlesGeorge Frideric Handel0:44
- 17Aria: Alcides' name in latest storyGeorge Frideric Handel4:47
- 18Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!George Frideric Handel0:29
- 19Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoilsGeorge Frideric Handel4:55
- 20Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!George Frideric Handel1:29
- 21Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to riseGeorge Frideric Handel3:49
- 22Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bearGeorge Frideric Handel1:26
- 23Aria: As stars, that rise and disappearGeorge Frideric Handel3:54
- 24Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzyGeorge Frideric Handel1:15
- 25Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'rGeorge Frideric Handel2:32
- 26Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great JoveGeorge Frideric Handel0:17
- 27Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in handGeorge Frideric Handel3:55
- CD 3: CD 3
- 1SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel3:53
- 2Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chiefGeorge Frideric Handel1:26
- 3Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woeGeorge Frideric Handel3:06
- 4Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dreadGeorge Frideric Handel4:14
- 5Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is thisGeorge Frideric Handel2:23
- 6Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!George Frideric Handel2:09
- 7Aria: Let not fame the tidings spreadGeorge Frideric Handel4:03
- 8Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?George Frideric Handel6:13
- 9Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!George Frideric Handel1:16
- 10Aria: My breast with tender pity swellsGeorge Frideric Handel6:49
- 11Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed handGeorge Frideric Handel1:46
- 12Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the skyGeorge Frideric Handel1:50
- 13Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passionsGeorge Frideric Handel1:06
- 14Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admireGeorge Frideric Handel3:26
- 15Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry climeGeorge Frideric Handel0:17
- 16Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belongGeorge Frideric Handel2:35
More by Handel, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Release credits
- mezzo-soprano vocals [1.5-7, 1.9-10, 1.15-16, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13, 2.4-6, 2.8-9, 2.16, 2.18-22, 2.24-26]
- executive, producer
- choir vocals [1.13, 1.18, 1.26, 2.10, 2.15, 2.27, 3.4, 3.16]
- alto vocals [1.3-4, 1.7, 1.14, 1.16-17, 2.8-9, 2.22-23, 3.2-3, 3.12]
- bass vocals [2.16-17, 2.20, 1.20, 1.22-23, 3.5-6]
- balance
- recording
- instrument [19], performing orchestra
- soprano vocals [2.2-4, 2.6-7, 2.11-12, 2.24-25, 1.20-21, 1.24-25, 3.9-10, 3.13-14]
- conductor
- bass vocals [11, 13, 15]
- editor, producer
- tenor vocals [1.7-9, 1.11-12, 1.16, 3.6-7, 3.13-14, 2.11, 2.13-14]
- editor, recording
Issues
H3x CD1 March 2002