Handel: Hercules

1. 1
   Handel: Hercules - Overture
   6:59
2. 2
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"
   1:32
3. 3
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"
   5:54
4. 4
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"
   4:56
5. 5
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
   1:39
6. 6
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"
   1:30
7. 7
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."
   3:27
8. 8
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"
   2:55
9. 9
   Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
   3:38
10. 10
    Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"
    4:12
11. 11
    Handel: Hercules / Act 1 - Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
    0:58
12. 12
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: March
    1:39
13. 13
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"
    2:04
14. 14
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"
    6:12
15. 15
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"
    3:43
16. 16
    Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
    2:38
17. 17
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"
    3:21
18. 18
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"
    4:12
19. 19
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
    1:22
20. 20
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"
    6:03
21. 21
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
    0:25
22. 22
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
    5:50
23. 23
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "She knows my passion"
    1:21
24. 24
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Aria: "From celestial seats descending"
    6:05
25. 25
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
    1:54
26. 26
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"
    5:52
27. 27
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"
    6:18
28. 28
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
    1:34
29. 29
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"
    3:27
30. 30
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
    2:30
31. 31
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
    3:06
32. 32
    Handel: Hercules / Act 2 - Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
    4:44
33. 33
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Sinfonia
    2:46
34. 34
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
    1:36
35. 35
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"
    2:53
36. 36
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
    2:56
37. 37
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"
    2:25
38. 38
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
    2:14
39. 39
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"
    2:16
40. 40
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"
    5:52
41. 41
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
    1:34
42. 42
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"
    7:37
43. 43
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
    2:03
44. 44
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Words are too faint"
    1:07
45. 45
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
    2:16
46. 46
    Handel: Hercules / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
    3:11

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