← Michel Gache
Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong
Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Hercules (HWV 60) · 2002
Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime
Marcus Pujol, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire
Richard Croft, Lynne Dawson, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions
Richard Croft, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcus Pujol, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky
David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand
Anne Sofie von Otter, Marcus Pujol, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Aria: My breast with tender pity swells
Lynne Dawson, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!
Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?
Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread
Richard Croft, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!
Richard Croft, Gidon Saks, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this
Gidon Saks, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread
Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe
Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief
Sinfonia
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand
Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove
Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r
Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy
Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear
Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear
David Daniels, Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!
Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski
Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils
Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!
Aria: Alcides' name in latest story
Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles
Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires
Aria: From celestial seats descending
Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways
Aria: Banish love from thy breast
Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe
Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest
Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!
Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor
Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove
Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?
Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears
Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs
Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell
Recitativo: Why was I born a princess
Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day
Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!
Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope
Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field
Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!