Pomona, CA

Hercules (HWV 60)

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Release date March 01, 2002
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Tracklist

1
Overtura
4:32
2
Menuetto
2:02
3
Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks
2:01
4
Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown
5:45
5
Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?
0:50
6
Aria: The world, when day's career is run
4:30
7
Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire!
1:25
8
Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!
1:33
9
Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast
0:58
10
Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined
3:21
11
Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend
0:26
12
Aria: Where congealed the northern streams
1:53
13
Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love!
5:18
14
Recitativo: Banish your fears!
0:30
15
Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away
3:26
16
Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds
0:54
17
Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train
1:20
18
Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late
2:25
19
March
1:49
20
Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee
1:27
21
Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see
5:56
22
Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!
0:25
23
Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field
2:23
24
Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope
0:26
25
Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!
5:55
26
Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day
2:28
27
Sinfonia
1:11
28
Recitativo: Why was I born a princess
0:18
29
Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell
5:56
30
Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs
0:38
31
Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears
2:47
32
Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?
1:10
33
Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove
5:52
34
Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor
0:19
35
Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!
0:16
36
Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest
5:17
37
Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe
1:45
38
Aria: Banish love from thy breast
2:17
39
Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways
0:10
40
Aria: From celestial seats descending
5:36
41
Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires
2:03
42
Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles
0:44
43
Aria: Alcides' name in latest story
4:47
44
Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!
0:29
45
Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils
4:55
46
Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!
1:29
47
Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
3:49
48
Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear
1:26
49
Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear
3:54
50
Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy
1:15
51
Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r
2:32
52
Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove
0:17
53
Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand
3:55
54
Sinfonia
3:53
55
Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief
1:26
56
Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe
3:06
57
Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread
4:14
58
Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this
2:23
59
Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!
2:09
60
Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread
4:03
61
Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?
6:13
62
Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!
1:16
63
Aria: My breast with tender pity swells
6:49
64
Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand
1:46
65
Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky
1:50
66
Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions
1:06
67
Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire
3:26
68
Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime
0:17
69
Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong
2:35

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