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NA 7960
Multiple Set of 3 CDs
HANDEL: Hercules
Label Catalogue Number:
8.557960-62
8.557960-62
Running Time: 189:53
Digital UPC: 0747313296026
Release Date: May 2008
Release Date: May 2008
Composer
George Frideric Handel / Thomas Broughton
George Frideric Handel / Thomas Broughton
Solo counter-tenor
Franz Vitzthum
Franz Vitzthum
Solo tenor
Knut Schoch
Knut Schoch
Solo mezzo-soprano
Nicola Wemyss
Nicola Wemyss
Solo soprano
Gerlinde Samann
Gerlinde Samann
Solo soprano
Liselotte Kuhn
Liselotte Kuhn
Solo bass
Peter Kooij
Peter Kooij
Solo bass
Franz Schneider
Franz Schneider
Conductor
Joachim Carlos Martini
Joachim Carlos Martini
Genre:
Classical
Classical
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Disc 1
Hercules, HWV 60
1.
Act I: Overture
4:12
Solo:
2.
Act I: Menuetto
2:10
Solo:
3.
Act I: Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas)
1:30
Solo:
4.
Act I: Aria: No longer, fate, relentless frown (Lichas)
5:36
Solo:
5.
Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me? (Dejanira)
0:42
Solo:
6.
Act I: Aria: The world, when day's career is run (Dejanira)
3:17
Solo:
7.
Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
1:44
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
8.
Act I: Arioso: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast (Hyllus)
1:38
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
9.
Act I: Recitative: He said the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
0:54
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
10.
Act I: Aria: There, in myrtle shades reclin'd (Dejanira)
2:21
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
11.
Act I: Recitative: Despair not, but let rising hope suspend (Hyllus)
0:40
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
12.
Act I: Aria: Where congeal'd the northern streams (Hyllus)
2:03
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
13.
Act I: O filial piety, O gen'rous love! (Chorus)
5:17
Solo:
14.
Act I: Recitative: Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives (Lichas, Dejanira)
0:31
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
15.
Act I: Aria: Begone, my fears, fly hence, away (Dejanira)
3:30
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
16.
Act I: Recitative: A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
1:03
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
17.
Act I: Aria: The smiling hours of joyful train (Lichas)
4:09
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
18.
Act I: Let none despair; relief may come though late (Chorus)
2:43
Solo:
19.
Act I: Recitative: Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)
1:27
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
Solo: Liselotte Kuhn soprano
20.
Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, bright liberty! (Iole)
8:45
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
21.
Act I: Recitative: But hark! The victor comes! (Iole)
0:08
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
22.
Act I: March
1:47
Solo:
23.
Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the pow'rs above (Hercules, Iole)
1:43
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
24.
Act I: Aria: My father! Ah, methinks I see (Iole)
5:21
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
25.
Act I: Recitative: Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time (Hercules)
0:28
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
26.
Act I: Aria: The God of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules)
2:50
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
27.
Act I: Crown with festal pomp the day (Chorus)
3:01
Solo:
Disc 2
1.
Act II: Sinfonia
1:21
Solo:
2.
Act II: Recitative: Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high (Iole)
0:23
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
3.
Act II: Aria: How blest the maid ordained to dwell (Iole)
5:25
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
4.
Act II: Recitative: It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)
1:33
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
5.
Act II: Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira)
3:17
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
6.
Act II: Recitative: Whence this unjust suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)
1:16
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
7.
Act II: Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! (Iole)
6:00
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
8.
Act II: Recitative: It is too sure that Hercules is false (Dejanira)
0:06
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
9.
Act II: Recitative: My godlike master? (Lichas, Dejanira)
0:16
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
10.
Act II: Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear (Lichas)
5:06
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
11.
Act II: Recitative: In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)
0:16
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
12.
Act II: Jealousy! Infernal pest (Chorus)
4:23
Solo:
13.
Act II: Recitative: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole)
2:30
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
14.
Act II: Aria: Banish love from thy breast (Iole)
5:00
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
15.
Act II: Recitative: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways (Hyllus)
0:14
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
16.
Act II: Aria: From celestial seats descending (Hyllus)
4:44
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
17.
Act II: Wanton god of amorous fires (Chorus)
2:19
Solo:
18.
Act II: Recitative: Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules)
0:41
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
19.
Act II: Aria: Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules)
4:32
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
20.
Act II: Recitative: O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Dejanira)
0:29
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
21.
Act II: Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira)
4:48
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
22.
Act II: Recitative: You are deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)
1:22
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
23.
Act II: Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira)
2:40
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
24.
Act II: Recitative: Some kinder pow'r inspire me to regain (Dejanira, Lichas)
1:18
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
25.
Act II: Aria: Constant lovers never roving (Lichas)
2:02
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
26.
Act II: Recitative: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole)
1:26
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
27.
Act II: Aria: Still caressing and caress'd (Iole)
2:11
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
28.
Act II: Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)
3:00
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
29.
Act II: Recitative: Father of Hercules, great Jove, oh help (Dejanira)
0:17
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
30.
Act II: Love and Hymen, hand in hand (Chorus)
4:28
Solo:
Disc 3
1.
Act III: Sinfonia
3:05
Solo:
2.
Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)
1:40
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
Solo: Franz Schneider bass
3.
Act III: Aria: O scene of unexampled woe (Lichas)
2:52
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
4.
Act III: Recitative: O fatal jealousy (First Trachinian)
0:17
Solo: Franz Schneider bass
5.
Act III: Tyrants now no more shall dread (Chorus)
3:04
Solo:
6.
Act III: Aria: O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst (Hercules)
2:26
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
7.
Act III: Recitative: Great Jove, relieve his pains! (Hyllus)
0:07
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
8.
Act III: Accompagnato: Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore? (Hercules, Hyllus)
2:06
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
9.
Act III: Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread (Hyllus)
4:36
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
10.
Act III: Accompagnato: Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head? (Dejanira)
6:00
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
11.
Act III: Recitative: Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)
1:14
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
12.
Act III: Aria: My breast with tender pity swells (Iole)
7:01
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
13.
Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Princess, rejoice, whose Heav'n-directed hand (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira)
1:55
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
14.
Act III: Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky (Lichas)
2:05
Solo: Franz Vitzthum counter-tenor
15.
Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter)
0:48
Solo: Nicola Wemyss mezzo-soprano
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
16.
Act III: Recitative: How blest is Hyllus, if the lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole)
0:21
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
17.
Act III: Duet: Oh prince, whose virtues all admire (Iole, Hyllus)
3:29
Solo: Gerlinde Samann soprano
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
18.
Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime (Priest of Jupiter)
0:20
Solo: Peter Kooij bass
19.
Act III: To him your grateful notes of praise belong (Chorus)
3:34
Solo:
Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini
