Handel: Hercules
The Monteverdi Choir
Aug 2010•46 Songs
Tracks
- 1OvertureEnglish Baroque Soloists
- 2Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"Catherine Denly
- 3Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"Catherine Denly
- 4
- 5
- 6Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 7
- 8Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 9Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"English Baroque Soloists
- 10Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"Catherine Denly
- 11Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"Catherine Denly
- 12MarchEnglish Baroque Soloists
- 13Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"John Tomlinson
- 14Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"Jennifer Smith
- 15
- 16Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"English Baroque Soloists
- 17Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"Jennifer Smith
- 18
- 19Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"Sarah Walker
- 20Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"Jennifer Smith
- 21Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"Sarah Walker
- 22Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"English Baroque Soloists
- 1Recit: "She knows my passion"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 2Aria: "From celestial seats descending"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 3Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"English Baroque Soloists
- 4
- 5
- 6Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"John Tomlinson
- 7Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"Sarah Walker
- 8Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"Sarah Walker
- 9Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"Sarah Walker
- 10
- 11SinfoniaEnglish Baroque Soloists
- 12Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"Catherine Denly
- 13Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"Catherine Denly
- 14Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"English Baroque Soloists
- 15Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"John Tomlinson
- 16Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 17Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 18Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"Sarah Walker
- 19
- 20Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"Jennifer Smith
- 21
- 22Recit: "Words are too faint"Sarah Walker
- 23Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- 24
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