Hercules

Hercules, Oratorio, HWV 60 1-01 Act 1. No. 1. Overtura 6:59 1-02 Act 1. No. 2. Recitativo Accompagnato. See With What Grand Dejection 1:33 1-03 Act 1. No. 3. Aria. No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown 5:53 1-04 Act 1. No. 4. Recitativo Accompagnato. O Hercules! Why Art Thou Absent From Me? / No. 5. Aria. 4:56 1-05 Act 1. No. 6. Recitativo. Princess! Be Comforted, And Hope The Best 1:39 1-06 Act 1. No. 7. Aria. I Feel, I Feel The God 1:30 1-07 Act 1. No. 8. Recitativo. Then I Am Lost! O Dreadful Oracle! / No. 9. Aria. There In Myrtle Shades 3:28 1-08 Act 1. No. 10. Recitativo. Despair Not! But Let Rising Hope Suspend / No. 11. Aria. Where Congealed 2:54 1-09 Act 1. No. 12. Chorus. O Filial Piety! O Generous Love! 3:37 1-10 Act 1. No. 13. Recitativo. Banish Your Fears! The Noble Hercules / No. 14. Aria. Begone, My Fears 4:12 1-11 Act 1. No. 15. Recitativo. A Train Of Captives, Red With Honest Wounds 0:58 1-12 Act 1. No. 16. March 1:39 1-13 Act 1. No. 17. Recitativo. Thanks To The Powers Above 2:04 1-14 Act 1. No. 18. Aria. My Father! Ah! Methinks I See 6:10 1-15 Act 1. No. 19. Recitativo. Now Farewell, Arms! From Hence The Tide Of Time / No. 20. Aria. The God 3:42 1-16 Act 1. No. 21. Chorus. Crown With Festal Pomp The Day 2:40 1-17 Act 2. No. 22. Aria. How Blest The Maid Ordained To Dwell 3:23 1-18 Act 2. No. 23. Recitativo. It Must Be So! Fame Speaks Aloud My Wrongs 4:13 1-19 Act 2. No. 25. Recitativo. Whence This Unjust Suspicion? 1:22 1-20 Act 2. No. 26. Aria. Ah! Think What Ills The Jealous Prove 6:03 1-21 Act 2. No. 27. Recitativo. It Is Too Sure That Hercules Is False 0:25 1-22 Act 2. No. 28. Chorus. Jealousy! Infernal Pest 5:48 2-01 Act 2. No. 29. Recitativo. She Knows My Passion, And Has Heard Me Breathe 1:17 2-02 Act 2. No. 30. Aria. From Celestial Seats Descending 6:05 2-03 Act 2. No. 31. Chorus. Wanton God Of Amorous Fires 1:50 2-04 Act 2. No. 32. Recitativo. Yes, I Congratulate Your Titles, Swelled / No. 33. Aria. Alcides' Name 5:51 2-05 Act 2. No. 34. Recitativo. O Glorious Pattern Of Heroic Deeds! / No. 35. Aria. 6:18 2-06 Act 2. No. 36. Recitativo. You Are Deceived! Some Villain Has Belied 1:34 2-07 Act 2. No. 37. Aria. Cease, Ruler Of The Day, To Rise 3:27 2-08 Act 2. No. 38. Recitativo. Some Kinder Power Inspire Me To Regain 2:30 2-09 Act 2. No. 39. Duet. Joys Of Freedom, Joys Of Power 3:06 2-10 Act 2. No. 40. Recitativo. Father Of Hercules, Great Jove, O Help / No. 41. Chorus. Love And Hymen 4:47 2-11 Act 3. No. 42. Sinfonia 2:48 2-12 Act 3. No. 43. Recitativo. Ye Sons Of Trachin, Mourn Your Valiant Chief 1:36 2-13 Act 3. No. 44. Aria. 2:54 2-14 Act 3. No. 45. Chorus. Tyrants Now No More Shall Dread 2:56 2-15 Act 3. No. 46. Recitativo Accompagnato. O Jove! What Land Is This, What Clime 2:24 2-16 Act 3. No. 47. Recitativo. Great Jove! Relieve His Pains! 2:15 2-17 Act 3. No. 48. Aria. Let Not Fame The Tidings Spread 2:12 2-18 Act 3. No. 49. Recitativo Accompagnato. Where Shall I Fly? Where Hide This Guilty Head? 5:51 2-19 Act 3. No. 50. Recitativo. Lo! The Fair Fatal Cause Of All This Ruin! 1:35 2-20 Act 3. No. 51. Aria. My Breast With Tender Pity Swells 7:35 2-21 Act 3. No. 52. Recitativo. Princess, Rejoice! Whose Heaven-directed Hand George Frederick Handel 2:01 2-22 Act 3. No. 53. Recitativo. Words Are Too Faint To Speak The Warring Passions 1:07 2-23 Act 3. No. 54. Duet. O Prince, Whose Virtues All Admire 2:16 2-24 Act 3. No. 55. Recitativo. Ye Sons Of Freedom, Now, In Every Clime / No. 56. Chorus 3:12 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Polydor International GmbH Printed By – Münstermann-Druck KG Bass Vocals – John Tomlinson (2), Peter Savidge Composed By – George Frideric Handel* Cover – Peter Paul Rubens Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Catherine Denley, Sarah Walker (2) Soprano Vocals – Jennifer Smith (3) Tenor Vocals – Anthony Rolfe Johnson ℗ 1983 Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg Printed in Germany Made in Gerrmany Recording: London, St. John's, Smith Square, 8/1982 Recorded on the occasion of the 1982 Göttingen Handel festival.