Hercules (HWV 60)
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CD 1
| 1 | Overtura | George Frideric Handel | 4:32 |
| 2 | Menuetto | George Frideric Handel | 2:02 |
| 3 | Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks | George Frideric Handel | 2:01 |
| 4 | Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown | George Frideric Handel | 5:45 |
| 5 | Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me? | George Frideric Handel | 0:50 |
| 6 | Aria: The world, when day's career is run | George Frideric Handel | 4:30 |
| 7 | Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire! | George Frideric Handel | 1:25 |
| 8 | Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast! | George Frideric Handel | 1:33 |
| 9 | Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast | George Frideric Handel | 0:58 |
| 10 | Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined | George Frideric Handel | 3:21 |
| 11 | Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend | George Frideric Handel | 0:26 |
| 12 | Aria: Where congealed the northern streams | George Frideric Handel | 1:53 |
| 13 | Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love! | George Frideric Handel | 5:18 |
| 14 | Recitativo: Banish your fears! | George Frideric Handel | 0:30 |
| 15 | Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away | George Frideric Handel | 3:26 |
| 16 | Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds | George Frideric Handel | 0:54 |
| 17 | Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train | George Frideric Handel | 1:20 |
| 18 | Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late | George Frideric Handel | 2:25 |
| 19 | March | George Frideric Handel | 1:49 |
| 20 | Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee | George Frideric Handel | 1:27 |
| 21 | Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see | George Frideric Handel | 5:56 |
| 22 | Recitativo: Now farewell, arms! | George Frideric Handel | 0:25 |
| 23 | Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field | George Frideric Handel | 2:23 |
| 24 | Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope | George Frideric Handel | 0:26 |
| 25 | Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty! | George Frideric Handel | 5:55 |
| 26 | Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day | George Frideric Handel | 2:28 |
CD 2
| 1 | Sinfonia | George Frideric Handel | 1:11 |
| 2 | Recitativo: Why was I born a princess | George Frideric Handel | 0:18 |
| 3 | Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell | George Frideric Handel | 5:56 |
| 4 | Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs | George Frideric Handel | 0:38 |
| 5 | Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears | George Frideric Handel | 2:47 |
| 6 | Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion? | George Frideric Handel | 1:10 |
| 7 | Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove | George Frideric Handel | 5:52 |
| 8 | Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor | George Frideric Handel | 0:19 |
| 9 | Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise! | George Frideric Handel | 0:16 |
| 10 | Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest | George Frideric Handel | 5:17 |
| 11 | Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe | George Frideric Handel | 1:45 |
| 12 | Aria: Banish love from thy breast | George Frideric Handel | 2:17 |
| 13 | Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways | George Frideric Handel | 0:10 |
| 14 | Aria: From celestial seats descending | George Frideric Handel | 5:36 |
| 15 | Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires | George Frideric Handel | 2:03 |
| 16 | Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles | George Frideric Handel | 0:44 |
| 17 | Aria: Alcides' name in latest story | George Frideric Handel | 4:47 |
| 18 | Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds! | George Frideric Handel | 0:29 |
| 19 | Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils | George Frideric Handel | 4:55 |
| 20 | Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules! | George Frideric Handel | 1:29 |
| 21 | Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise | George Frideric Handel | 3:49 |
| 22 | Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear | George Frideric Handel | 1:26 |
| 23 | Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear | George Frideric Handel | 3:54 |
| 24 | Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy | George Frideric Handel | 1:15 |
| 25 | Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r | George Frideric Handel | 2:32 |
| 26 | Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 27 | Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand | George Frideric Handel | 3:55 |
CD 3
| 1 | Sinfonia | George Frideric Handel | 3:53 |
| 2 | Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief | George Frideric Handel | 1:26 |
| 3 | Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe | George Frideric Handel | 3:06 |
| 4 | Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread | George Frideric Handel | 4:14 |
| 5 | Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this | George Frideric Handel | 2:23 |
| 6 | Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains! | George Frideric Handel | 2:09 |
| 7 | Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread | George Frideric Handel | 4:03 |
| 8 | Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly? | George Frideric Handel | 6:13 |
| 9 | Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin! | George Frideric Handel | 1:16 |
| 10 | Aria: My breast with tender pity swells | George Frideric Handel | 6:49 |
| 11 | Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand | George Frideric Handel | 1:46 |
| 12 | Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky | George Frideric Handel | 1:50 |
| 13 | Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions | George Frideric Handel | 1:06 |
| 14 | Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire | George Frideric Handel | 3:26 |
| 15 | Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 16 | Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong | George Frideric Handel | 2:35 |