Handel: hercules
(2002)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Deutsche Grammophon : Made available through hoopla, 2002
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 55 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
0028946953228 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10951574, 10951574
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Overture (4:32) -- Menuetto (2:02) -- Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection" (2:01) -- Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (5:45) -- Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me" (0:50) -- Aria: "The world, when day's career is run" (4:30) -- Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" (1:25) -- Aria: "I feel, I feel the god" (1:33) -- Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast" (0:58) -- Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined" (3:21) -- Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend" (0:26) -- Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams" (1:53) -- Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!" (5:18) -- Recit.: "Banish your fears!" (0:30) -- Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away" (3:26) -- Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (0:54) -- Aria: "The smiling hours" (1:20) -- Chorus: "Let none despair" (2:25) -- March (1:49) -- Recit: "Thanks to the powers above" (1:27) -- Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" (5:56) -- Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!" (0:25) -- Aria: "The god of battle" (2:23) -- Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope" (0:26) -- Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty" (5:55) -- Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day" (2:28) -- Sinfonia (1:11) -- Recit.: "Why was I born a princess" (0:18) -- Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (5:56) -- Recit.: "It must be so" (0:38) -- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears" (2:47) -- Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (1:10) -- Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" (5:52) -- Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (0:19) -- Recit.: "In vain you strive" (0:16) -- Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest" (5:17) -- Recit: "She knows my passion" (1:45) -- Aria: "Banish love from thy breast" (2:17) -- Recit.: "Forgive a passion" (0:10) -- Aria: "From celestial seats descending" (5:36) -- Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires" (2:03) -- Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate" (0:44) -- Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story" (4:47) -- Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!" (0:29) -- Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (4:55) -- Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" (1:29) -- Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (3:49) -- Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (1:26) -- Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear" (3:54) -- Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole" (1:15) -- Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (2:32) -- Recit.: "Father of Hercules" (0:17) -- Chorus: "Love and Hymen" (3:55) -- Sinfonia (3:53) -- Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" (1:26) -- Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe" (3:06) -- Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread" (4:14) -- Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this" (2:23) -- Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" (2:09) -- Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread" (4:03) -- Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?" (6:13) -- Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" (1:16) -- Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells" (6:49) -- Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" (1:46) -- Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky" (1:50) -- Recit: "Words are too faint" (1:06) -- Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (3:26) -- Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom" (0:17) -- Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong" (2:35)

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