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Hercules Handel; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Catherine Denley, Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson, Jennifer Smith, Peter Savidge

Release: 01 Sep 1995 Germany, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD, Tracks: 46, Length: 2:32:46, Barcode: 028944768923
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 Hercules, HWV 60: Overture 6:59
2 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection" 1:32
3 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" 5:54
4 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!": Aria: "The world, when day's career is run" 4:56
5 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" 1:39
6 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god" 1:30
7 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!": Aria:"There in myrtle .." 3:27
8 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!": Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams" 2:55
9 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!" 3:38
10 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!": Aria: "Begone, my fears" 4:12
11 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" 0:58
12 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: March 1:39
13 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above" 2:04
14 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" 6:12
15 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!": Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field" 3:43
16 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day" 2:38
17 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" 3:21
18 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's" 4:12
19 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" 1:22
20 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" 6:03
21 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" 0:25
22 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest" 5:50
CD #2
1 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion" 1:21
2 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending" 6:05
3 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires" 1:54
4 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate": Aria: "Alcides' name" 5:52
5 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern": Aria: "Resign thy club" 6:18
6 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" 1:34
7 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" 3:27
8 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" 2:30
9 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" 3:06
10 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules": Chorus: "Love and Hymen" 4:44
11 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Sinfonia 2:46
12 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" 1:36
13 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe" 2:53
14 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread" 2:56
15 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this" 2:25
16 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" 2:14
17 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread" 2:16
18 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?" 5:52
19 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" 1:34
20 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells" 7:37
21 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" 2:03
22 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint" 1:07
23 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" 2:16
24 Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom": Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong" 3:11

Other Releases in Group (1)

Official

  1. Hercules, Germany (13 Aug 2010), CD + CD (English)

Links (4)

Discography Entry

  1. https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4476892

ASIN

  1. https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00000130A

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/mr0002715224

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/release/8450605