Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "The smiling hours"

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

Handel: Hercules

1 MINUTE AND 21 SECONDS

Album tracklist

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Overture

04:33

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Menuetto

02:03

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

02:02

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

05:46

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"

00:50

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

04:31

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

01:25

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

01:34

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"

00:58

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined"

03:22

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"

00:27

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

01:53

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

05:19

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

00:31

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"

03:27

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

00:55

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "The smiling hours"

01:21

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Let none despair"

02:26

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - March

01:49

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

01:27

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

05:56

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!"

00:26

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "The god of battle"

02:24

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"

00:27

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"

05:56

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

02:29

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Sinfonia

01:11

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "Why was I born a princess"

00:18

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

05:57

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "It must be so"

00:38

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears"

02:48

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

01:10

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

05:53

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

00:19

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "In vain you strive"

00:16

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

05:18

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

01:45

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Banish love from thy breast"

02:18

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "Forgive a passion"

00:11

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

05:37

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

02:04

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate"

00:45

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"

04:48

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"

00:30

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils"

04:56

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

01:29

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

03:50

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

01:27

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"

03:55

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole"

01:16

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

02:33

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit.: "Father of Hercules"

00:18

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

03:55

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Sinfonia

03:54

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

01:27

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

03:07

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

04:15

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

02:24

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

02:10

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

04:03

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

06:14

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

01:17

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

06:50

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

01:47

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky"

01:50

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

01:07

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

03:26

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom"

00:17

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

02:36

Handel: Hercules

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "The smiling hours"