G.F. Händel - Hercules (Moulds, 2007)

HERCULES (HWV 60)
Musical Drama in 3 acts
Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Libretto: Reverend Thomas Broughton (1704–1774)
First performance: King's Theatre, London, 5 January 1745

Hercules: Nathan Berg
Dejanira: Ann Hallenberg
Iole: Ingela Bohlin
Hyllus: Ed Lyon
Lichas: Charlotte Hellekant
Priest of Jupiter: Simon Kirkbride

Conductor: Christopher Moulds
St. James's Baroque
Chorus of the Netherlands Opera
Recorded live at the Muziektheater, Amsterdam (10 May 2007)

Libretto available at: http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/hercules.htm

Picture: "The Apotheosis of Hercules" by François Lemoyne (1731-1736).

00:00 ACT I
07:23 "No longer, fate, relentless frown" (Lichas I, 1)
13:14 "The world, when day's career is run" (Dejanira I, 1)
18:13 "I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast" (Hyllus I, 2)
20:38 "There, in myrtle shades reclin'd" (Dejanira I, 2)
24:18 "Where congeal'd the northern streams" (Hyllus I, 2)
26:41 "O filial piety, O gen'rous love!" (Chorus I, 2)
32:47 "Begone, my fears, fly hence, away" (Dejanira I, 3)
37:35 "The smiling hours of joyful train" (Lichas I, 3)
39:34 "Let none despair; relief may come though late" (Chorus I, 3)
42:11 March (I, 5)
45:17 "My father! Ah, methinks I see" (Iole I, 5)
51:38 "The God of battle quits the bloody field" (Hercules I, 6)
53:57 "Crown with festal pomp the day" (Chorus I, 6)

56:47 ACT II
59:29 "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Iole II, 1)
1:05:48 "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears" (Dejanira II, 2)
1:09:58 "Ah, think what ills the jealous prove!" (Iole II, 2)
1:16:18 "As stars, that rise and disappear" (Lichas II, 3)
1:21:47 "Jealousy! Infernal pest" (Chorus II, 3)
1:29:23 "Banish love from thy breast" (Iole II, 4)
1:35:00 "From celestial seats descending" (Hyllus II, 4)
1:40:40 "Wanton god of amorous fires" (Chorus II, 4)
1:43:11 "Alcides' name in latest story" (Hercules II, 5)
1:48:06 "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Dejanira II, 5)
1:54:19 "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (Dejanira II, 6)
2:00:34 "Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r" (Dejanira, Iole II, 8)
2:03:40 "Love and Hymen, hand in hand" (Chorus II, 8)

2:08:00 ACT III
2:13:10 "O scene of unexampled woe" (Lichas III, 1)
2:16:21 "Tyrants now no more shall dread" (Chorus III, 1)
2:20:17 "O Jove, what land is this, what clime accurst" (Hercules III, 2)
2:24:29 "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Hyllus III, 2)
2:29:57 "Where shall I fly" (Dejanira III, 3)
2:37:40 "My breast with tender pity swells" (Iole III, 4)
2:48:15 "Oh prince, whose virtues all admire" (Iole, Hyllus III, 5)
2:52:07 "To him your grateful notes of praise belong" (Chorus III, 5)