Handel: Hercules

"Handel: Hercules album by Junge Kantorei on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 2008-05-27T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Sinfonia
  • Overture
  • Menuetto
  • Recitative. Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high (Iole)
  • Aria. How blest the maid ordained to dwell (Iole)
  • Accompagnato. See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas)
  • Recitative. It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)
  • Aria. No longer, fate, relentless frown (Lichas)
  • Aria. When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira)
  • Accompagnato. O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me? (Dejanira)
  • Aria. The world, when day's career Is run (Dejanira)
  • Recitative. Whence This unjust suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)
  • Recitative. Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
  • Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! (Iole)
  • Recitative. It Is too sure That Hercules Is false (Dejanira)
  • Arioso. I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast (Hyllus)
  • Recitative. He said the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
  • Recitative. My godlike master? (Lichas, Dejanira)
  • Aria. There, in myrtle shades reclin'd (Dejanira)
  • Aria. As stars, That rise and disappear (Lichas)
  • Recitative. Despair not, but let rising hope suspend (Hyllus)
  • Recitative. In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)
  • Jealousy! Infernal pest (Chorus)
  • Aria. Where congeal'd the northern streams (Hyllus)
  • Recitative. She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole)
  • O filial piety, O gen'rous love! (Chorus)
  • Recitative. Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives (Lichas, Dejanira)
  • Aria. Banish love from thy breast (Iole)
  • Recitative. Forgive a passion, which resistless sways (Hyllus)
  • Aria. Begone, my fears, fly hence, away (Dejanira)
  • Aria. From celestial seats descending (Hyllus)
  • Recitative. A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
  • Aria. The smiling hours of joyful train (Lichas)
  • Wanton god of amorous fires (Chorus)
  • Recitative. Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules)
  • Let none despair; relief may come though late (Chorus)
  • Aria. Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules)
  • Recitative. Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)
  • Recitative. O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Dejanira)
  • Aria. Daughter of Gods, bright liberty! (Iole)
  • Aria. Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira)
  • Recitative. But hark! The victor comes! (Iole)
  • Recitative. You Are deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)
  • March
  • Aria. Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira)
  • Recitative. Thanks to the pow'rs above (Hercules, Iole)
  • Aria. My father! Ah, methinks I see (Iole)
  • Recitative. Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time (Hercules)
  • Aria. The God of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules)
  • Crown with festal pomp the day (Chorus)