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"