Handel: Hercules

1. 1
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60: Overture
   4:32
2. 2
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60: Menuetto
   2:02
3. 3
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"
   2:01
4. 4
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"
   5:45
5. 5
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"
   0:50
6. 6
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria. The World, When Day's Career Is Run
   4:30
7. 7
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
   1:25
8. 8
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"
   1:33
9. 9
   Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"
   0:58
10. 10
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined"
    3:21
11. 11
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"
    0:26
12. 12
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"
    1:53
13. 13
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
    5:18
14. 14
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit.: "Banish your fears!"
    0:30
15. 15
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"
    3:26
16. 16
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
    0:54
17. 17
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "The smiling hours"
    1:20
18. 18
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "Let none despair"
    2:25
19. 19
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: March
    1:49
20. 20
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"
    1:27
21. 21
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"
    5:56
22. 22
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!"
    0:25
23. 23
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "The god of battle"
    2:23
24. 24
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"
    0:26
25. 25
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"
    5:55
26. 26
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
    2:28
27. 27
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Sinfonia
    1:11
28. 28
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "Why was I born a princess"
    0:18
29. 29
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"
    5:56
30. 30
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "It must be so"
    0:38
31. 31
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60, Act II: Aria. When Beauty Sorrow's Liv'ry Wears
    2:47
32. 32
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
    1:10
33. 33
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"
    5:52
34. 34
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
    0:19
35. 35
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "In vain you strive"
    0:16
36. 36
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
    5:17
37. 37
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"
    1:45
38. 38
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Banish love from thy breast"
    2:17
39. 39
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "Forgive a passion"
    0:10
40. 40
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"
    5:36
41. 41
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
    2:03
42. 42
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate"
    0:44
43. 43
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"
    4:47
44. 44
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"
    0:29
45. 45
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils"
    4:55
46. 46
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
    1:29
47. 47
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"
    3:49
48. 48
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
    1:26
49. 49
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"
    3:54
50. 50
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole"
    1:15
51. 51
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
    2:32
52. 52
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit.: "Father of Hercules"
    0:17
53. 53
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
    3:55
54. 54
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Sinfonia
    3:53
55. 55
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
    1:26
56. 56
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"
    3:06
57. 57
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
    4:14
58. 58
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"
    2:23
59. 59
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
    2:09
60. 60
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"
    4:03
61. 61
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"
    6:13
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    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
    1:16
63. 63
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"
    6:49
64. 64
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
    1:46
65. 65
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky"
    1:50
66. 66
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"
    1:06
67. 67
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
    3:26
68. 68
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom"
    0:17
69. 69
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
    2:35

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