Handel: Hercules (COMPLETE)
ACT 1 00:00
1 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 1. Overtura
2 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 2. Recitativo accompagnato. See with what grand dejection
3 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 3. Aria. No longer, Fate, relentless frown
4 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 4. Recitativo accompagnato. O Hercules! why art thou absent from me? / No. 5. Aria. The
5 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 6. Recitativo. Princess! be comforted, and hope the best
6 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 7. Aria. I feel, I feel the god
7 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 8. Recitativo. Then I am lost! O dreadful oracle! / No. 9. Aria. There in myrtle shades
8 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 10. Recitativo. Despair not! but let rising hope suspend / No. 11. Aria. Where congealed
9 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 12. Chorus. O filial piety! O generous love!
10 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 13. Recitativo. Banish your fears! The noble Hercules / No. 14. Aria. Begone, my fears,
11 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 15. Recitativo. A train of captives, red with honest wounds
12 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 16. March
13 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 17. Recitativo. Thanks to the powers above
14 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 18. Aria. My father! Ah! methinks I see
15 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 19. Recitativo. Now farewell, arms! From hence the tide of time / No. 20. Aria. The god
16 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 1. No. 21. Chorus. Crown with festal pomp the day
ACT 2 54:00
1 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 22. Aria. How blest the maid ordained to dwell
2 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 23. Recitativo. It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs / No. 24. Aria. When beauty s
3 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 25. Recitativo. Whence this unjust suspicion?
4 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 26. Aria. Ah! think what ills the jealous prove
5 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 27. Recitativo. It is too sure that Hercules is false
6 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 28. Chorus. Jealousy! Infernal pest
7 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 29. Recitativo. She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe
8 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 30. Aria. From celestial seats descending
9 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 31. Chorus. Wanton god of amorous fires
10 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 32. Recitativo. Yes, I congratulate your titles, swelled / No. 33. Aria. Alcides’ name i
11 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 34. Recitativo. O glorious pattern of heroic deeds! / No. 35. Aria. Resign thy club and
12 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 36. Recitativo. You are deceived! Some villain has belied
13 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 38. Recitativo. Some kinder power inspire me to regain
14 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 39. Duet. Joys of freedom, joys of power
15 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 2. No. 40. Recitativo. Father of Hercules, great Jove, O help / No. 41. Chorus. Love and Hymen,
ACT 3 01:52:13
1 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 42. Sinfonia
2 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 43. Recitativo. Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief
3 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 44. Aria. O scene of unexampled woe
4 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 45. Chorus. Tyrants now no more shall dread
5 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 46. Recitativo accompagnato. O Jove! what land is this, what clime accurst
6 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 47. Recitativo. Great Jove! relieve his pains!
7 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 48. Aria. Let not fame the tidings spread
8 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 49. Recitativo accompagnato. Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?
9 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 50. Recitativo. Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!
10 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 51. Aria. My breast with tender pity swells
11 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 52. Recitativo. Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand
12 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 53. Recitativo. Words are too faint to speak the warring passions
13 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 54. Duet. O prince, whose virtues all admire
14 Hercules, oratorio, HWV 60: Act 3. No. 55. Recitativo. Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime / No. 56. Chorus. To him your grateful notes
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