Handel: Hercules – Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60: Overture

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

6:59

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

1:33

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

5:55

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

4:57

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

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & English Baroque Soloists

1:40

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

1:30

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:28

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:55

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & George Frideric Handel

3:39

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

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:13

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

Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & English Baroque Soloists

0:58

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: March

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

1:39

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

John Tomlinson, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:04

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

Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

6:12

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"

John Tomlinson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:43

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & George Frideric Handel

2:38

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

Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:22

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:13

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

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:23

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

Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

6:03

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

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

0:26

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & George Frideric Handel

5:51

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:22

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

6:05

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & George Frideric Handel

1:54

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"

Sarah Walker, John Tomlinson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

5:52

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

6:18

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

John Tomlinson, Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:34

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

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:28

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

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Smith & English Baroque Soloists

2:30

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

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:06

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

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir

4:45

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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Sinfonia

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:46

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

1:36

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:54

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

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & George Frideric Handel

2:56

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

John Tomlinson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:25

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Tomlinson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:15

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:16

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

Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

5:52

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

Sarah Walker, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:35

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

Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

7:37

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

Peter Savidge, Sarah Walker, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:04

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

Sarah Walker, Peter Savidge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Jennifer Smith

1:07

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

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jennifer Smith, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:17

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

Peter Savidge, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir

3:12