Hercules / Handel.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, composer.

Contributor:

Gardiner, John Eliot, conductor.

Alexander Street Press.

English Baroque Soloists.

Standardized Title:

Hercules

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hercules (Roman mythological character)--Songs and music.

Hercules.

Hercules (Roman mythological character).

Hercules (Roman mythological character)--Drama.

Secular oratorios.

Genre:

Songs and music.

Drama.

Oratorios.

Sound recordings.

Songs.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Berlin, Germany] : Deutsche Grammophon, [2010]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

data file

Contents:

Track 1. Overture (06:59)

Track 2. Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection" (01:32)

Track 3. Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (05:54)

Track 4. Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run" (04:56)

Track 5. Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" (01:39)

Track 6. Aria: "I feel, I feel the god" (01:30)

Track 7. Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle ... " (03:27)

Track 8. Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams" (02:55)

Track 9. Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!" (03:38)

Track 10. Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears" (04:12)

Track 11. Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (00:58)

Track 12. March (01:39)

Track 13. Recit: "Thanks to the powers above" (02:04)

Track 14. Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" (06:12)

Track 15. Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field" (03:43)

Track 16. Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day" (02:38)

Track 17. Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (03:21)

Track 18. Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's" (04:12)

Track 19. Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (01:22)

Track 20. Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" (06:03)

Track 21. Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (00:25)

Track 22. Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest" (05:50)

Track 23. Recit: "She knows my passion" (01:21

Track 24. Aria: "From celestial seats descending" (06:05)

Track 25. Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires" (01:54)

Track 26. Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name" (05:52)

Track 27. Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club" (06:18)

Track 28. Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" (01:34

Track 29. Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (03:27)

Track 30. Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (02:30)

Track 31. Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (03:06)

Track 32. Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen" (04:44)

Track 33. Sinfonia (02:46)

Track 34. Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" (01:36)

Track 35. Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe" (02:53)

Track 36. Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread" (02:56)

Track 37. Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this" (02:25)

Track 38. Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" (02:14)

Track 39. Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread" (02:16)

Track 40. Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?" (05:52)

Track 41. Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" (01:34)

Track 42. Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells" (07:37)

Track 43. Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" (02:03)

Track 44. Recit: "Words are too faint" (01:07)

Track 45. Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (02:16)

Track 46. Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong" (03:11).

Participant:

John Tomlinson ; Anthony Rolfe Johnson ; Sarah Walker ; Jennifer Smith ; Catherine Denley ; The Monteverdi Choir ; The English Baroque Soloists ; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.

Notes:

Streaming audio files.

Title from resource description page (viewed July 27, 2016).

For vocal soloists and mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble.

Other Format:

Original cat. no.: DG 4779112

Original UPC: 28944768923

OCLC:

961283073

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.