Hercules HWV 60
Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge Kantorei, Nicola Wemyss (Mezzo-soprano), Gerlinde Sämann (Soprano), Franz Vitzthum (Countertenor), Knut Schoch (Tenor), Peter Kooij (Bass), Liselotte Kühn (Soprano), Franz Schneider (Bass)
June 2006, Eltville am Rhein, Kloster Eberbach
- 04:10Overture
- 02:10Menuetto
Act I
- 01:30No. 1 Accompagnato 'See, with what sad dejection in her looks' (Lichas)
- 05:36No. 2 Air 'No longer, fate, relentless frown' (Lichas)
- 00:42No. 3 Accompagnato 'O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me?' (Dejanira)
- 03:17No. 4 Air 'The world, when day's career is run' (Dejanira)
- 01:44Recitative 'Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best!' (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
- 01:38No. 5 Air 'I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast' (Hyllus)
- 00:54Recitative 'He said the sacred fury left his breast' (Hyllus, Dejanira)
- 02:21No. 6 Air 'There, in myrtle shades reclin'd' (Dejanira)
- 00:40Recitative 'Despair not, but let rising hope suspend' (Hyllus)
- 02:03No. 7 Air 'Where congeal'd the northern streams' (Hyllus)
- 05:17No. 8 Chorus 'O filial piety, O gen'rous love!' (Chorus)
- 00:31Recitative 'Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives' (Lichas, Dejanira)
- 03:31No. 9 Air 'Begone, my fears, fly hence, away' (Dejanira)
- 01:03Recitative 'A train of captives, red with honest wounds' (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
- 04:09No. 10 Air 'The smiling hours of joyful train' (Lichas)
- 02:43No. 11 Chorus 'Let none despair; relief may come though late' (Chorus)
- 01:27Recitative 'Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole' (Iole, First Oechalian)
- 08:45No. 12 Air 'Daughter of Gods, bright liberty!' (Iole)
- 00:08Recitative 'But hark! The victor comes!' (Iole)
- 01:47No. 13 March
- 01:43Recitative 'Thanks to the pow'rs above' (Hercules, Iole)
- 05:21No. 14 Air 'My father! Ah, methinks I see' (Iole)
- 00:28Recitative 'Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time' (Hercules)
- 02:50No. 15 Air 'The God of battle quits the bloody field' (Hercules)
- 03:01No. 16 Chorus 'Crown with festal pomp the day' (Chorus)
Act II
- 01:19No. 17 Sinfonia
- 00:23Recitative 'Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high' (Iole)
- 05:25No. 18 Air 'How blest the maid ordained to dwell' (Iole)
- 01:33Recitative 'It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs' (Dejanira, Iole)
- 03:17No. 19 Air 'When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears' (Dejanira)
- 01:16Recitative 'Whence this unjust suspicion?' (Iole, Dejanira)
- 06:00No. 20 Air 'Ah, think what ills the jealous prove!' (Iole)
- 00:06Recitative 'It is too sure that Hercules is false' (Dejanira)
- 00:16Recitative 'My godlike master?' (Lichas, Dejanira)
- 05:06No. 21 Air 'As stars, that rise and disappear' (Lichas)
- 00:16Recitative 'In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise' (Dejanira, Lichas)
- 04:23No. 22 Chorus 'Jealousy! Infernal pest' (Chorus)
- 02:30Recitative 'She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe' (Hyllus, Iole)
- 05:00No. 23 Air 'Banish love from thy breast' (Iole)
- 00:14Recitative 'Forgive a passion, which resistless sways' (Hyllus)
- 04:44No. 24 Air 'From celestial seats descending' (Hyllus)
- 02:19No. 25 Chorus 'Wanton god of amorous fires' (Chorus)
- 00:41Recitative 'Yes, I congratulate your titles' (Dejanira, Hercules)
- 04:32No. 26 Air 'Alcides' name in latest story' (Hercules)
- 00:29Recitative 'O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds!' (Dejanira)
- 04:48No. 27 Air 'Resign thy club and lion's spoils' (Dejanira)
- 01:22Recitative 'You are deceived!' (Hercules, Dejanira)
- 02:40No. 28 Air 'Cease, ruler of the day, to rise' (Dejanira)
- 01:18Recitative 'Some kinder pow'r inspire me to regain' (Dejanira, Lichas)
- 02:02No. 29 Air 'Constant lovers never roving' (Lichas)
- 01:26Recitative 'But see, the princess Iole. Retire!' (Dejanira, Iole)
- 02:11Air 'Still caressing and caress'd' (Iole)
- 03:00No. 30 Duet 'Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r' (Dejanira, Iole)
- 00:17Recitative 'Father of Hercules, great Jove, oh help' (Dejanira)
- 04:28No. 31 Chorus 'Love and Hymen, hand in hand' (Chorus)
Act III
- 03:03No. 32 Sinfonia
- 01:40Recitative 'Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief' (Lichas, First Trachinian)
- 02:52No. 33 Air 'O scene of unexampled woe' (Lichas)
- 00:17Recitative 'O fatal jealousy' (First Trachinian)
- 03:04No. 34 Chorus 'Tyrants now no more shall dread' (Chorus)
- 02:26No. 35 Accompagnato 'O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst' (Hercules)
- 00:07Recitative 'Great Jove, relieve his pains!' (Hyllus)
- 02:06No. 36 Accompagnato 'Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore?' (Hercules, Hyllus)
- 04:36No. 37 Air 'Let not fame the tidings spread' (Hyllus)
- 06:00No. 38 Accompagnato 'Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?' (Dejanira)
- 01:14Recitative 'Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin!' (Dejanira, Iole)
- 07:01No. 39 Air 'My breast with tender pity swells' (Iole)
- 01:55Recitative 'Princess, rejoice' - No. 40 Accompagnato 'His mortal part' (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira)
- 02:05No. 41 Air 'He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky' (Lichas)
- 00:48No. 42 Accompagnato 'Words are too faint to speak the warring passions' (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter)
- 00:21Recitative 'How blest is Hyllus, if the lovely Iole' (Hyllus, Iole)
- 03:29No. 43 Duet 'Oh prince, whose virtues all admire' (Iole, Hyllus)
- 00:20Recitative 'Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime' (Priest of Jupiter)
- 03:34No. 44 Chorus 'To him your grateful notes of praise belong' (Chorus)
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