Artist: Handel, Wemyss, Sämann, Vitzthum, Schoch, Kooij, Kühn, Schneider, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini
Label: Naxos
Released: 2008-05
Runtime: 3h 10m

Hercules

2008 · Music · Handel, Wemyss, Sämann, Vitzthum, Schoch, Kooij, Kühn, Schneider, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini

Peter Kooij

Tracklist

Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Overture
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Menuetto
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Accompagnato: See, With What Sad Dejection In Her Looks (Lichas)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown (Lichas)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, Why Art Thou Absent from Me? (Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The World, When Day's Career Is Run (Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be Comforted, and Hope the Best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Arioso: I Feel, I Feel the God, He Swells My Breast (Hyllus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: He Said the Sacred Fury Left His Breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: There, In Myrtle Shades Reclin'd (Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Despair Not, But Let Rising Hope Suspend (Hyllus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Where Congeal'd the Northern Streams (Hyllus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: O Filial Piety, O Gen'rous Love! (Chorus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Banish Your Fears! the Noble Hercules Lives (Lichas, Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Begone, My Fears, Fly Hence, Away (Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: A Train of Captives, Red With Honest Wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The Smiling Hours of Joyful Train (Lichas)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Let None Despair; Relief May Come Though Late (Chorus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Ye Faithful Followers of the Wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, Bright Liberty! (Iole)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: But Hark! the Victor Comes! (Iole)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: March
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the Pow'rs Above (Hercules, Iole)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: My Father! Ah, Methinks I See (Iole)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Recitative: Now Farewell, Arms! from Hence, the Tide of Time (Hercules)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria: The God of Battle Quits the Bloody Field (Hercules)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Crown With Festal Pomp the Day (Chorus)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Sinfonia
Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Recitative: Why Was I Born a Princess, Rais'd On High (Iole)
Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria: How Blest the Maid Ordained to Dwell (Iole)