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The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69

Oratorio

Creators (2)

Composer

  1. George Frideric Handel German-British baroque composer

Librettist

  1. Robert Lowth

Related Works (26)

Parts

  1. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 4. Air "There the brisk sparkling nectar drain" (Pleasure)
  2. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 4. Air "There the brisk sparkling nectar drain" (Pleasure)
  3. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 15. Air "Yet can I hear that dulcet lay" (Hercules)
  4. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 15. Air "Yet can I hear that dulcet lay" (Hercules)
  5. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 1. Sinfonia
  6. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 9. Air "Go, assert thy heav'nly race" (Virtue)
  7. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 2. Accompagnato "See Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain" (Pleasure)
  8. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 5. Solo and Chorus "While for thy arms that beauty glows" (Pleasure)
  9. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 3. Air "Come, blooming boy" (Pleasure)
  10. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 6. Recitative "Away, mistaken wretch, away!" (Virtue)
  11. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 7. Air "This manly youth's exalted mind" (Virtue)
  12. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 8. Recitative "Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me!" (Virtue)
  13. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 10. Recitative "In peace, in war" (Virtue)
  14. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 11. Solo and Chorus "So shalt thou gain immortal praise" (Virtue)
  15. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 12. Recitative "Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage" (Pleasure)
  16. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 13. Solo and Chorus "Turn thee, youth, to joy and love" (Pleasure)
  17. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 14. Recitative "Short is my way, fair, easy, smooth and plain" (Pleasure, Hercules)
  18. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 16. Air "Enjoy the sweet elysian grove" (Attendant on Pleasure)
  19. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 18. Trio "Where shall I go?" (Hercules, Pleasure, Virtue)
  20. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 17. Recitative "Oh! whither, reason, dost thou fly?" (Hercules)
  21. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 19. Recitative "Mount, mount the steep ascent" (Virtue)
  22. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20. Air "Mount, mount the steep ascent" (Virtue)
  23. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 21. Chorus "Arise! Mount the Steep Ascent"
  24. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 22. Recitative "The sounds breathe fire celestial" (Hercules)
  25. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 23. Air "Lead, goddess, lead the way!" (Hercules)
  26. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 24. Chorus "Virtue Will Place Thee in That Blest Abode"

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