Handel: Hercules by Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Gidon Saks, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Lynne Dawson

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

Lynne Dawson, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Marcos Pujol, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Lynne Dawson, Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcos Pujol, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcos Pujol, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Lynne Dawson

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

Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Richard Croft, Gidon Saks, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Gidon Saks, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

David Daniels, Marcos Pujol, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Sinfonia

Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant & Mirella Giardelli

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski & Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre

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

Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant & Mirella Giardelli

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60, Act I: Aria. The World, When Day's Career Is Run

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre

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

David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski