Handel / Wemyss / Samann / Vitzhum / Fbo / Martini: Hercules
Handel / Wemyss / Samann / Vitzhum / Fbo / Martini: Hercules
Format: CD
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Artist: Handel / Wemyss / Samann / Vitzhum / Fbo / Martini
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313296026
Genre: Classical, Opera/Operetta
Handel composed Hercules for his 1744-45 oratorio season as the secular foil to one of his most ambitious sacred dramas, Belshazzar, hoping to repeat the success of the previous season' Samson/Semele pairing.
Tracks:
1.1 Act 1. Ouvertura
1.2 Act 1. Menuetto
1.3 Act 1. Accompagnato. See, with What Sad Dejection
1.4 Act 1. Aria. No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown
1.5 Act 1. Accompagnato. O, Hercules, Why Art Thou Absent
1.6 Act 1. Aria. the World, When Day's Career Is Run
1.7 Act 1. Recitativo. Princess! Be Comforted
1.8 Act 1. Arioso. I Feel, I Feel the God
1.9 Act 1. Recitativo. He Said, the Sacred Fury Left His Breast
1.10 Act 1. Aria. There, in Myrtle Shades Reclin'd
1.11 Act 1. Recitativo. Despair Not
1.12 Act 1. Aria. Where Congeal'd the Northern Streams
1.13 Act 1. Chorus. O Filial Piety
1.14 Act 1. Recitativo. Banish Your Fears
1.15 Act 1. Aria. Begone, My Fears
1.16 Act 1. Recitativo. a Train of Captives
1.17 Act 1. Aria. the Smiling Hours
1.18 Act 1. Chorus. Let None Despair
1.19 Act 1. Recitativo. Ye Faithful Followers
1.20 Act 1. Aria. Daughter of Gods, Bright Liberty
1.21 Act 1. Recitativo. But Hark!
1.22 Act 1. March
1.23 Act 1. Recitativo. Thanks to the Powr's Above
1.24 Act 1. Aria. My Father
1.25 Act 1. Recitativo. Now Farewell, Arms
1.26 Act 1. Aria. the God of Battle Quits
1.27 Act 1. Chorus. Crown with Festal Pomp the Day
2.1 Act 2. Sinfonia
2.2 Act 2. Recitativo. Why Was I Born a Princess
2.3 Act 2. Aria. How Blest the Maid
2.4 Act 2. Recitativo. It Must Be So
2.5 Act 2. Aria. When Beauty Sorrow's Liv'ry Wears
2.6 Act 2. Recitativo. Whence This Unjust Suspicion?
2.7 Act 2. Aria. Ah! Think What Ills the Jealous Prove
2.8 Act 2. Recitativo. It Is Too Sure
2.9 Act 2. Recitativo. My Godlike Master
2.10 Act 2. Aria. As Stars, That Rise and Disappear
2.11 Act 2. Recitativo. in Vain You Strive
2.12 Act 2. Recitativo. She Knows My Passion
2.13 Act 2. Aria. Banish Love from Thy Breast
2.14 Act 2. Recitativo. Forgive a Passion
2.15 Act 2. Aria. from Coelestial Seats Descending
2.16 Act 2. Chorus. Wanton God of Amorous Fires
2.17 Act 2. Recitativo. Yes, I Congratulate Your Titles
2.18 Act 2. Aria. Alcides' Name in Latest Story
2.19 Act 2. Recitativo. O, Glorious Pattern of Heroic Deeds
2.20 Act 2. Aria. Resign Thy Club and Lion's Spoils
2.21 Act 2. Aria. Cease, Ruler of the Day, to Rise
2.22 Act 2. Recitativo. Some Kinder Pow'r Inspire Me
2.23 Act 2. Aria. Constant Lover's Never Roving
2.24 Act 2. Recitativo. But See, the Princess Iã¶Le
2.25 Act 2. Aria ; Chorus. Still Caressing and Caress'd
2.26 Act 2. Duet. Joys of Freedom, Joys of Pow'r
2.27 Act 2. Recitativo. Father of Hercules, Great Jove
2.28 Act 2. Chorus. Love and Hymen
3.1 Act 3. Sinfonia
3.2 Act 3. Recitativo. Ye Sons of Trachin, Mourn
3.3 Act 3. Aria. O Scene of Unexampled Woe
3.4 Act 3. Recitativo. O Fatal Jealousy
3.5 Act 3. Chorus. Tyrants Now No More Shall Dread
3.6 Act 3. Arioso. O Jove! What Land Is This?
3.7 Act 3. Recitativo. Great Jove
3.8 Act 3. Accompagnato. Was It for This Unnumber'd Toils
3.9 Act 3. Aria. Let Not Fame the Tidings Spread
3.10 Act 3. Accompagnato. Where Shall I Fly
3.11 Act 3. Recitativo. Lo! the Fair, Fatal Cause
3.12 Act 3. Recitativo ; Accompagnato. Princess, Rejoice
3.13 Act 3. Aria. He, Who for Atlas Prop'd the Sky
3.14 Act 3. Recitativo ; Accompagnato. Words Are Too Faint
3.15 Act 3. Recitativo. How Blest Is Hyllus
3.16 Act 3. Duet. Oh Prince, Whose Virtues All Admire
3.17 Act 3. Recitativo. Ye Sons of Freedom
3.18 Act 3. Chorus. to Him Your Grateful Notes of Praise
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