Handel: Hercules
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Apr 2002•69 Songs
Tracks
- 1OvertureLes Musiciens du Louvre
- 2MenuettoLes Musiciens du Louvre
- 3Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"David Daniels
- 4Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"David Daniels
- 5Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 6Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 7Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 8Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"Richard Croft
- 9Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 10Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 11Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"Richard Croft
- 12Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"Richard Croft
- 13Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 14Recit.: "Banish your fears!"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 15Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 16Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 17Aria: "The smiling hours"David Daniels
- 18Chorus: "Let none despair"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 19MarchLes Musiciens du Louvre
- 20Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"Lynne Dawson
- 21Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"Lynne Dawson
- 22Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!"Gidon Saks
- 23Aria: "The god of battle"Gidon Saks
- 24Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"Lynne Dawson
- 25Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"Lynne Dawson
- 26Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 1SinfoniaLes Musiciens du Louvre
- 2Recit.: "Why was I born a princess"Lynne Dawson
- 3Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"Lynne Dawson
- 4Recit.: "It must be so"Lynne Dawson
- 5Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 6Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"Lynne Dawson
- 7Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"Lynne Dawson
- 8Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 9Recit.: "In vain you strive"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 10Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 11Recit: "She knows my passion"Lynne Dawson
- 12Aria: "Banish love from thy breast"Lynne Dawson
- 13Recit.: "Forgive a passion"Richard Croft
- 14Aria: "From celestial seats descending"Richard Croft
- 15Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 16Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 17Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"Gidon Saks
- 18Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 19Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 20Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 21Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 22Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 23Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"David Daniels
- 24Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole"Lynne Dawson
- 25Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"Lynne Dawson
- 26Recit.: "Father of Hercules"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 27Chorus: "Love and Hymen"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 1SinfoniaMarc Minkowski
- 2Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"David Daniels
- 3Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"David Daniels
- 4Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"Les Musiciens du Louvre
- 5Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"Gidon Saks
- 6Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"Richard Croft
- 7Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"Richard Croft
- 8Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"Anne Sofie von Otter
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- 10Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"Lynne Dawson
- 11Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"Anne Sofie von Otter
- 12Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky"David Daniels
- 13Recit: "Words are too faint"Lynne Dawson
- 14Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"Lynne Dawson
- 15Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom"Máximo Pujol
- 16Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"Les Musiciens du Louvre
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℗ 2002 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg