Handel Hercules Minkowski

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Year Released 2002

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Credits

Label

Archiv

Hyllus

Croft, Richard

Lichas

Daniels, David

Iole

Dawson, Lynne

Composer

Handel, George Frideric

Orchestra

Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble

Conductor

Minkowski, Marc

Priest of Jupiter

Pujol, Marcos

Hercules

Saks, Gidon

Dejanira

von Otter, Anne Sofie

Additional Information

Issued Date

2002

Status

In Print

Catalogue Number

469 532-2

UPC Bar Code

028946953228

Number of Disc

3

Disc Issued in

International Edition

Disc Made in

Germany

Libretto

English, French, German

Stereo/Mono Recording

Stereo

Studio/Live Recording

Studio

Recording Date

April 2000

Recording Location

Poissy France

Producer

Prohmann, Arend

Producer

Gache, Michel

Engineer

Pezerat, Gilles

Label

Archiv

Composer

Handel, George Frideric

Orchestra

Les Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble

Conductor

Minkowski, Marc

Track Listing

CD 1
Track 1

Overture

Opera

Hercules

Choir

Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble

Opus Number

HWV 60

Track 2

Menuetto

Track 3

See, with what sad dejection in her looks

Track 4

No longer, Fate, relentless frown

Track 5

O Hercules! why art thou absent from me

Track 6

The world, when day's career is run

Track 7

Princess! be comforted, and hope the best

Track 8

I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast

Track 9

He said, the sacred fury left his breast

Track 10

There is myrtle shades reclined

Track 11

Despair not; but let rising hope suspend

Track 12

Where congealed the northern streams

Track 13

O filial piety! O gen'rous love

Track 14

Banish your fears

Track 15

Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away

Track 16

A train of captives, red with honest woulnds

Track 17

The smiling hours, a joyful train

Track 18

Let none despair, relief may come though late

Track 19

March

Track 20

Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee

Track 21

My father! Ah! methinks I see

Track 22

Now farwell, arms

Track 23

The god of battle quits the bloody field

Track 24

Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope

Track 25

Daughter of gods, bright liberty

Track 26

Crown with festal pomp the day

CD 2
Track 1

Sinfonia

Track 2

Why was I born a princess

Track 3

How blest the maid, ordained to dwell

Track 4

It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs

Track 5

When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears

Track 6

Whence this unjust suspicion

Track 7

Ah! think what ills the jealous prove

Track 8

It is too sure that Hercules is false

Track 9

In vain your strive his falsehood to disguise

Track 10

Jealousy! Infernal pest

Track 11

She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe

Track 12

Banish love from thy breast

Track 13

Forgive a passion, which resistless sways

Track 14

From celestial seats descending

Track 15

Wanton god of amorous fires

Track 16

Yes, I congratulate your titles

Track 17

Alcides' name in latest story

Track 18

O glorious pattern of heroic deeds

Track 19

Resign thy club and lion's spoils

Track 20

You are deceived! Some villain has belied

Track 21

Cease, ruler of the day, to rise

Track 22

Some kinder pow'r inspire me

Track 23

As stars, that rise and disappear

Track 24

But see, the princess Iole. Retire

Track 25

Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r

Track 26

Father of Hercules, great Jove

Track 27

Love and Hymen, hand in hand

CD 3
Track 1

Sinfonia

Track 2

Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief

Track 3

Oh scene of unexampled woe

Track 4

Tyrants now no more shall dread

Track 5

O Jove! what land is this

Track 6

Great Jove! relieve this pains

Track 7

Let not fame the tidings spread

Track 8

Where shall I fly

Track 9

Lo! the fair, fatal cause of all this ruin

Track 10

My breast with tender pity swells

Track 11

Princess, rejoice! whose heav'n-directed hand

Track 12

He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky

Track 13

Words are too faint to speak the warring passions

Track 14

O prince, whose virtues all admire

Track 15

Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime

Track 16

To him your grateful notes of praise belong