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Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast

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On Hercules (HWV 60)

2002 · 69 tracks

01Sinfonia3:53
01Overtura4:32
01Sinfonia1:11
02Recitativo: Why was I born a princess0:18
02Menuetto2:03
02Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief1:26
03Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks2:02
03Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell5:56
03Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe3:06
04Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs0:38
04Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread4:14
04Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown5:45
05Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears2:47
05Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this2:23
05Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?0:50
06Aria: The world, when day's career is run4:31
06Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!2:09
06Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?1:10
07Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove5:52
07Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire!1:25
07Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread4:03
08Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?6:13
08Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!1:33
08Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor0:19
09Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast0:58
09Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!0:16
09Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!1:16
10Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest5:17
10Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined3:21
10Aria: My breast with tender pity swells6:49
11Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand1:46
11Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend0:27
11Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe1:45
12Aria: Where congealed the northern streams1:53
12Aria: Banish love from thy breast2:17
12Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky1:50
13Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love!5:18
13Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways0:10
13Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions1:06
14Aria: From celestial seats descending5:36
14Recitativo: Banish your fears!0:31
14Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire3:26
15Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away3:27
15Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime0:17
15Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires2:03
16Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong2:35
16Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles0:44
16Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds0:55
17Aria: Alcides' name in latest story4:47
17Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train1:21
18Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!0:29
18Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late2:26
19March1:49
19Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils4:55
20Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!1:29
20Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee1:27
21Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise3:49
21Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see5:56
22Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!0:26
22Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear1:26
23Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear3:54
23Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field2:24
24Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy1:15
24Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope0:27
25Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!5:55
25Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r2:32
26Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove0:17
26Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day2:28
27Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand3:55