Handel: Hercules

Overture

Recit. acc. 'See with what sad dejection'

Aria: 'No longer, Fate, relentless frown'

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

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

Aria: 'I feel, I feel the god'

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

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

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

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

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

March

Recit: 'Thanks to the powers above'

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

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

Chorus: 'Crown with festal pomp the day'

Aria: 'How blest the maid ordained to dwell'

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

Recit: 'Whence this unjust suspicion?'

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

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

Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

Recit: 'She knows my passion'

Aria: 'From celestial seats descending'

Chorus: 'Wanton god of amorous fires'

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

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

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

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

Recit: 'Some kinder power inspire me to regain'

Duet: 'Joys of freedom, joys of power'

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

Sinfonia

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

Aria: 'O scene of unexampled woe'

Chorus: 'Tyrants now no more shall dread'

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

Recit: 'Great Jove! relieve his pains!'

Aria: 'Let not fame the tidings spread'

Recit. acc: 'Where shall I fly?'

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

Aria: 'My breast with tender pity swells'

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

Recit: 'Words are too faint'

Duet: 'O prince, whose virtues all admire'

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