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Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

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1995 · 46 tracks

01Hercules, HWV 60: Overture6:59
01Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"1:21
02Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"6:05
02Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"1:32
03Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"1:54
03Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"5:54
04Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate": Aria: "Alcides' name"5:52
04Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!": Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"4:56
05Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"1:39
05Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern": Aria: "Resign thy club"6:18
06Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"1:34
06Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"1:30
07Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"3:27
07Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!": Aria:"There in myrtle .."3:27
08Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!": Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"2:55
08Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"2:30
09Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"3:06
09Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"3:38
10Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!": Aria: "Begone, my fears"4:12
10Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules": Chorus: "Love and Hymen"4:44
11Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Sinfonia2:46
11Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"0:58
12Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"1:36
12Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: March1:39
13Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"2:53
13Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"2:04
14Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"2:56
14Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"6:12
15Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!": Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"3:43
15Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"2:25
16Hercules, HWV 60, Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"2:38
16Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"2:14
17Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"3:21
17Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"2:16
18Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"5:52
18Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"4:12
19Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"1:22
19Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"1:34
20Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"7:37
20Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"6:03
21Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"0:25
21Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"2:03
22Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"5:50
22Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"1:07
23Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"2:16
24Hercules, HWV 60, Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom": Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"3:11