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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Hercules

6 MINUTES AND 5 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Overture

06:59

2

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

01:32

3

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

05:54

4

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

04:56

5

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

01:39

6

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

01:30

7

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."

03:27

8

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

02:55

9

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

03:39

10

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"

04:12

11

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

00:58

12

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - March

01:39

13

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"

02:04

14

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

06:12

15

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"

03:43

16

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

02:38

17

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

03:21

18

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"

04:12

19

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

01:22

20

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"

06:03

21

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

00:25

22

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

05:50

23

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "She knows my passion"

01:21

24

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

06:05

25

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

01:54

26

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"

05:52

27

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"

06:18

28

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

01:34

29

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

03:27

30

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

02:30

31

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

03:06

32

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

04:44

33

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Sinfonia

02:46

34

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

01:36

35

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

02:53

36

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

02:56

37

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

02:25

38

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

02:15

39

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

02:16

40

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

05:52

41

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

01:35

42

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

07:37

43

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

02:03

44

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Words are too faint"

01:07

45

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

02:16

46

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

03:11

Handel: Hercules

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

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