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Handel: Hercules

John Tomlinson (Hercules), Sarah Walker (Dejanira), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Hyllus), Margaret Cable (Lichas), Jennifer Smith (Iole), David Wilson-Johnson (Priest)

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Gardiner's brisk performance...conveys superbly the vigour of the writing, its natural drama; the the fire of the performance is typified by the outstanding singing of Sarah Walker as Dejanira.... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars More…
  • Release Date: 18th Sep 1995
  • Catalogue No: E4476892
  • Label: DG Archiv
  • Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

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Handel: Hercules

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  • Catherine Denly (mezzo-soprano), Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano), John Tomlinson (bass), Peter Savidge (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jennifer Smith (soprano)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  • Recorded: 1982-08-09
  • Recording Venue: St. John's Smith Square, London

Overture

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Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

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Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

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Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

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Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

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Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

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Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."

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Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

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Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

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Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"

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Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

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March

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Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"

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Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

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Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"

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Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

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Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

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Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"

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Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

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Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"

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Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

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Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

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Recit: "She knows my passion"

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Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

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Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

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Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"

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Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"

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Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

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Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

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Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

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Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

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Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

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Sinfonia

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Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

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Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

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Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

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Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

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Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

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Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

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Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

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Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

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Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

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Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

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Recit: "Words are too faint"

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Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

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Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

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