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)