Hercules
Album by Handel; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson, Jennifer Smith, Peter Savidge
Released 1 September 1995
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Hercules, HWV 60: OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel6:58
- 2Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"George Frideric Handel1:32
- 3Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"George Frideric Handel5:54
- 4Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!": Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"George Frideric Handel4:56
- 5Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"George Frideric Handel1:39
- 6Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"George Frideric Handel1:29
- 7Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!": Aria:"There in myrtle .."George Frideric Handel3:27
- 8Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!": Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"George Frideric Handel2:54
- 9Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"George Frideric Handel3:38
- 10Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!": Aria: "Begone, my fears"George Frideric Handel4:12
- 11Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"George Frideric Handel0:57
- 12Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: MarchGeorge Frideric Handel1:38
- 13Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"George Frideric Handel2:03
- 14Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"George Frideric Handel6:11
- 15Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!": Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"George Frideric Handel3:42
- 16Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"George Frideric Handel2:37
- 17Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"George Frideric Handel3:21
- 18Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"George Frideric Handel4:12
- 19Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"George Frideric Handel1:22
- 20Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"George Frideric Handel6:02
- 21Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"George Frideric Handel0:25
- 22Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"George Frideric Handel5:50
- CD 2
- 1Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"George Frideric Handel1:21
- 2Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"George Frideric Handel6:04
- 3Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"George Frideric Handel1:54
- 4Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate": Aria: "Alcides' name"George Frideric Handel5:52
- 5Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern": Aria: "Resign thy club"George Frideric Handel6:18
- 6Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"George Frideric Handel1:33
- 7Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"George Frideric Handel3:27
- 8Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"George Frideric Handel2:29
- 9Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"George Frideric Handel3:05
- 10Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules": Chorus: "Love and Hymen"George Frideric Handel4:44
- 11Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: SinfoniaGeorge Frideric Handel2:45
- 12Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"George Frideric Handel1:35
- 13Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"George Frideric Handel2:53
- 14Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"George Frideric Handel2:56
- 15Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"George Frideric Handel2:24
- 16Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"George Frideric Handel2:14
- 17Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"George Frideric Handel2:16
- 18Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"George Frideric Handel5:51
- 19Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"George Frideric Handel1:34
- 20Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"George Frideric Handel7:37
- 21Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"George Frideric Handel2:03
- 22Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"George Frideric Handel1:06
- 23Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"George Frideric Handel2:16
- 24Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom": Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"George Frideric Handel3:11
More by Handel, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson, Jennifer Smith, Peter Savidge
Release credits
- tenor vocals [2.1-2, 2.16-17, 2.22-23, 1.5-6, 1.8, 1.11]
- producer
- mezzo-soprano vocals [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.10-11, 1.21, 2.8, 2.12-13]
- task
- executive
- performing orchestra
- recording
- soprano vocals [2.1, 2.8-9, 2.19-20, 2.22-23, 1.13-14, 1.17-20]
- bass vocals [2.4, 2.6, 2.15-16, 1.13, 1.15]
- executive
- choir vocals [2.3, 2.10, 2.14, 2.24, 1.9, 1.16, 1.22]
- baritone vocals [21]
- mezzo-soprano vocals [2.4-10, 2.18-19, 2.21-22, 1.4-5, 1.7, 1.10-11, 1.18-19, 1.21]
- conductor
