Georg Friedrich Händel: Hercules on 3 CDs

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Hercules

Gerlinde Sämann, Franz Vitzthum, Knut Schoch, Nicola Wemyss, Junge Kantorei

3 CDs

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Artists:: Nicola Wemyss, Gerlinde Sämann, Franz Vitzthum, Knut Schoch, Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Joachim Carlos Martini
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2006
Item number:: 9981413
UPC/EAN:: 0747313296026
Release date:: 2.5.2008

Handel composed Hercules for his 1744-45 oratorio season as the secular foil to one of his most ambitious sacred dramas, Belshazzar, hoping to repeat the success of the previous season's Samson / Semele pairing. Like Semele, Hercules, which Handel called 'A Musical Drama', is an English opera in all but name and shares its theme of the destructive power of sexual jealousy. Handel's music is of outstanding quality and the commanding figure of Dejanira - rapturous in her love for her returning hero, distraught at his imagined dalliance with Iöle, eventually mad with despair at the enormity of her misguided actions - is one of his most powerfully drawn female rôles.

Disk 1 von 3 (CD)

1 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Overture
2 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Menuetto
3 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks (Lichas)
4 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: No longer, fate, relentless frown (Lichas)
5 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Accompagnato: O, Hercules, why art thou absent from me? (Dejanira)
6 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: The world, when day's career is run (Dejanira)
7 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
8 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Arioso: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast (Hyllus)
9 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: He said the sacred fury left his breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
10 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: There, in myrtle shades reclin'd (Dejanira)
11 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Despair not, but let rising hope suspend (Hyllus)
12 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: Where congeal'd the northern streams (Hyllus)
13 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: O filial piety, O gen'rous love! (Chorus)
14 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Banish your fears! The noble Hercules lives (Lichas, Dejanira)
15 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: Begone, my fears, fly hence, away (Dejanira)
16 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: A train of captives, red with honest wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
17 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: The smiling hours of joyful train (Lichas)
18 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Let none despair; relief may come though late (Chorus)
19 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Ye faithful followers of the wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)
20 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: Daughter of Gods, bright liberty! (Iole)
21 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: But hark! The victor comes! (Iole)
22 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: March
23 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Thanks to the pow'rs above (Hercules, Iole)
24 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: My father! Ah, methinks I see (Iole)
25 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Recitative: Now farewell, arms! From hence, the tide of time (Hercules)
26 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Aria: The God of battle quits the bloody field (Hercules)
27 Hercules, HWV 60: Act I: Crown with festal pomp the day (Chorus)

Disk 2 von 3 (CD)

1 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Sinfonia
2 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Why was I born a princess, rais'd on high (Iole)
3 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: How blest the maid ordained to dwell (Iole)
4 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)
5 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears (Dejanira)
6 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Whence this unjust suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)
7 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Ah, think what ills the jealous prove! (Iole)
8 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: It is too sure that Hercules is false (Dejanira)
9 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: My godlike master? (Lichas, Dejanira)
10 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear (Lichas)
11 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)
12 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Jealousy! Infernal pest (Chorus)
13 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe (Hyllus, Iole)
14 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Banish love from thy breast (Iole)
15 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways (Hyllus)
16 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: From celestial seats descending (Hyllus)
17 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Wanton god of amorous fires (Chorus)
18 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Yes, I congratulate your titles (Dejanira, Hercules)
19 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Alcides' name in latest story (Hercules)
20 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: O, glorious pattern of heroic deeds! (Dejanira)
21 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils (Dejanira)
22 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: You are deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)
23 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise (Dejanira)
24 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Some kinder pow'r inspire me to regain (Dejanira, Lichas)
25 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Constant lovers never roving (Lichas)
26 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole)
27 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Aria: Still caressing and caress'd (Iole)
28 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)
29 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Recitative: Father of Hercules, great Jove, oh help (Dejanira)
30 Hercules, HWV 60: Act II: Love and Hymen, hand in hand (Chorus)

Disk 3 von 3 (CD)

1 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Sinfonia
2 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)
3 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Aria: O scene of unexampled woe (Lichas)
4 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: O fatal jealousy (First Trachinian)
5 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Tyrants now no more shall dread (Chorus)
6 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Aria: O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst (Hercules)
7 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: Great Jove, relieve his pains! (Hyllus)
8 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Accompagnato: Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore? (Hercules, Hyllus)
9 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread (Hyllus)
10 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Accompagnato: Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head? (Dejanira)
11 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)
12 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Aria: My breast with tender pity swells (Iole)
13 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Princess, rejoice, whose Heav'n-directed hand (Priest of Jupiter,
14 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky (Lichas)
15 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative - Accompagnato: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions (Dejanira, Pries
16 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: How blest is Hyllus, if the lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole)
17 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Duet: Oh prince, whose virtues all admire (Iole, Hyllus)
18 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: Recitative: Ye sons of freedom, now, in every clime (Priest of Jupiter)
19 Hercules, HWV 60: Act III: To him your grateful notes of praise belong (Chorus)