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Handel: Hercules

Gidon Saks (Hercules), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dejanira), Richard Croft (Hyllus), Lynne Dawson (Iole), David Daniels (Lichas), Marcos Pujol (Priest)

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

Hercules has never quite occupied the place it merits in the Handel canon, even though it includes some of his most powerfully dramatic music. This is understood by Marc Minkowski, whose intentions... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…
  • Release Date: 1st Mar 2002
  • Catalogue No: E4695322
  • Label: DG Archiv
  • Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

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Handel: Hercules

Work length2:55:37
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  • Michel Maldonado (double bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Yvon Repérant (harpsichord), David Daniels (alto), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Claire Giardelli (cello), Mirella Giardelli (organ), Gidon Saks (bass), Marcos Pujol (bass), Richard Croft (tenor), Sébastian Rouland (chorus master)
  • Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre
  • Marc Minkowski
  • Recorded: 2000-04
  • Recording Venue: Theatre, Salle Molière, Poissy

Overture

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Menuetto

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Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

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Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

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Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"

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Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

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Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

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Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

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Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"

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Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined"

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Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"

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Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

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Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

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Recit.: "Banish your fears!"

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Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"

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Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

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Aria: "The smiling hours"

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Chorus: "Let none despair"

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March

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Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"

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Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

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Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!"

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Aria: "The god of battle"

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Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"

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Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"

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Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

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Sinfonia

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Recit.: "Why was I born a princess"

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Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

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Recit.: "It must be so"

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Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears"

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Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

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Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"

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Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

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Recit.: "In vain you strive"

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Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

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Recit: "She knows my passion"

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Aria: "Banish love from thy breast"

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Recit.: "Forgive a passion"

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Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

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Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

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Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate"

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Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"

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Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"

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Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils"

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Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

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Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

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Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

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Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"

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Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole"

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Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

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Recit.: "Father of Hercules"

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Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

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Sinfonia

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Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

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Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

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Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

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Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

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Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

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Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

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Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

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Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

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Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

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Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

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Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky"

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Recit: "Words are too faint"

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Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

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Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom"

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Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

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