George Frideric Händel, The English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner
Hercules HWV 60

The English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner - Hercules HWV 60

  • Release date: 1983
  • Genre: Opera/Baroque
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Classical
  • Duration: 2:32:58
  • ***
  • Added December 7, 2009
  • Rated December 8, 2009

Tracks

CD1
1. Ouverturenot rated6:58
2. Récitativo accompagnato "See with what sad dejection"not rated1:32
3. Aria "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"not rated5:54
4. Récitativo accompagnato "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?"not rated4:56
5. Récitativo "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"not rated1:39
6. Aria "I fell, i fell the god"not rated1:29
7. Récitativo "Then I am lost! O dreadful oracle!"not rated3:27
8. Récitativo "Despair not! but let rising hope suspend"not rated2:54
9. Chorus "O filial piety! O generous love!"not rated3:38
10. Récitativo "Banish your fears! The noble Hercules"not rated4:12
11. Récitativo "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"not rated0:57
12. Marchnot rated1:38
13. Récitativo "Thanks to the powers above"not rated2:03
14. Aria "My father! Ah! methinks I see"not rated6:11
15. Récitativo "Now farewell, arms! From hence the tide of time"not rated3:42
16. Chorus "Cross with festal pomp the day"not rated2:42
17. Aria "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"not rated3:21
18. Recitativo "It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs"not rated4:12
19. Recitativo "Whance this injust suspicion?"not rated1:22
20. Aria "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"not rated6:02
21. Recitativo "It is too sure that Hercules is false"not rated0:25
22. Chorus "Jealousy! Infernal pest"not rated5:50
1:15:15
CD2
1. Recitativo "She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe"not rated1:21
2. Aria "From celestail seats descending"not rated6:04
3. Chorus "Wanton god of amorous fires"not rated1:54
4. Recitativo "Yes, i congratule your titles, swelled"not rated5:52
5. Recitativo "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds"not rated6:18
6. Recitativo "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"not rated1:33
7. Aria "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"not rated3:27
8. Recitativo "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"not rated2:29
9. Duet "Joys of freedom, joys of power"not rated3:05
10. Recitativo "Father of Hercules, great Jove, O help"not rated4:50
11. Sinfonianot rated2:45
12. Recitativo "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief"not rated1:35
13. Aria "O scene of unexampled woe"not rated2:53
14. Chorus "Tyrants now no more shall dread"not rated2:56
15. Recitativo accompagnato "O Jove! what land is this, what clime accurst?"not rated2:24
16. Recitativo accompagnato "Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?"Great Jove! relieve this pains!"not rated2:14
17. Aria "Let not fame the tidings spread"not rated2:16
18. Recitativo accompagnato "Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?"not rated5:51
19. Recitativo "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"not rated1:34
20. Aria "My breast with tender pity swells"not rated7:37
21. Recitativo "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"not rated2:03
22. Recitativo "Words aree too faint to speak the warring passions"not rated1:06
23. Duet "O prince, whose virtues all admire"not rated2:16
24. Recitativo "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"not rated3:11
1:17:43

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