Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra - Hercules [3 CD]

Tracklist:

1. Act I: Overture
2. Act I: Menuetto
3. Act I: Accompagnato, See, With What Sad Dejection In Her Looks (Lichas)
4. Act I: Aria, No Longer, Fate, Relentless Frown (Lichas)
5. Act I: Accompagnato, O, Hercules, Why Art Thou Absent From Me? (Dejanira)
6. Act I: Aria, The World, When Day's Career Is Run (Dejanira)
7. Act I: Recitative, Princess! Be Comforted, And Hope The Best! (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllus)
8. Act I: Arioso, I feel, I Feel The God, He Swells My Breast (Hyllus)
9. Act I: Recitative, He Said The Sacred Fury Left His Breast (Hyllus, Dejanira)
10. Act I: Aria, There, In Myrtle Shades Reclin'd (Dejanira)
11. Act I: Recitative, Despair Not, But Let Rising Hope Suspend (Hyllus)
12. Act I: Aria, Where Congeal'd The Northern Streams (Hyllus)
13. Act I: O Filial Piety, O Gen'rous Love! (Chorus)
14. Act I: Recitative, Banish Your Fears! The Noble Hercules Lives (Lichas, Dejanira)
15. Act I: Aria, Begone, My Fears, Fly Hence, Away (Dejanira)
16. Act I: Recitative, A Train Of Captives, Red With Honest Wounds (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
17. Act I: Aria, The Smiling Hours Of Joyful Train (Lichas)
18. Act I: Let None Despair, Relief May Come Though Late (Chorus)
19. Act I: Recitative, Ye Faithful Followers Of The Wretched Iole (Iole, First Oechalian)
20. Act I: Aria, Daughter Of Gods, Bright Liberty! (Iole)
21. Act I: Recitative, But Hark! The Victor Comes! (Iole)
22. Act I: March
23. Act I: Recitative, Thanks To The Pow'rs Above (Hercules, Iole)
24. Act I: Aria, My Father! Ah, Methinks I See (Iole)
25. Act I: Recitative, Now Farewell, Arms! From Hence, The Tide Of Time (Hercules)
26. Act I: Aria, The God Of Battle Quits The Bloody Field (Hercules)
27. Act I: Crown With Festal Pomp The Day (Chorus)
28. Act II: Sinfonia
29. Act II: Recitative, Why Was I Born A Princess, Rais'd On High (Iole)
30. Act II: Aria, How Blest The Maid Ordained To Dwell (Iole)
31. Act II: Recitative, It Must Be So! Fame Speaks Aloud My Wrongs (Dejanira, Iole)
32. Act II: Aria, When Beauty Sorrow's Liv'ry Wears (Dejanira)
33. Act II: Recitative, Whence This Unjust Suspicion? (Iole, Dejanira)
34. Act II: Ah, Think What Ills The Jealous Prove! (Iole)
35. Act II: Recitative, It Is Too Sure That Hercules Is False (Dejanira)
36. Act II: Recitative, My Godlike Master? (Lichas, Dejanira)
37. Act II: Aria, As Stars, That Rise And Disappear (Lichas)
38. Act II: Recitative, In Vain You Strive His Falsehood To Disguise (Dejanira, Lichas)
39. Act II: Jealousy! Infernal Pest (Chorus)
40. Act II: Recitative, She Knows My Passion, And Has Heard Me Breathe (Hyllus, Iole)
41. Act II: Aria, Banish Love From Thy Breast (Iole)
42. Act II: Recitative, Forgive A Passion, Which Resistless Sways (Hyllus)
43. Act II: Aria, From Celestial Seats Descending (Hyllus)
44. Act II: Wanton God Of Amorous Fires (Chorus)
45. Act II: Recitative, Yes, I Congratulate Your Titles (Dejanira, Hercules)
46. Act II: Aria, Alcides' Name In Latest Story (Hercules)
47. Act II: Recitative, O, Glorious Pattern Of Heroic Deeds! (Dejanira)
48. Act II: Aria, Resign Thy Club And Lion's Spoils (Dejanira)
49. Act II: Recitative, You Are Deceived! (Hercules, Dejanira)
50. Act II: Aria, Cease, Ruler Of The Day, To Rise (Dejanira)
51. Act II: Recitative, Some Kinder Pow'r Inspire Me To Regain (Dejanira, Lichas)
52. Act II: Aria, Constant Lovers Never Roving (Lichas)
53. Act II: Recitative, But See, The Princess Iole. Retire! (Dejanira, Iole)
54. Act II: Aria, Still Caressing And Caress'd (Iole)
55. Act II: Joys Of Freedom, Joys Of Pow'r (Dejanira, Iole)
56. Act II: Recitative, Father Of Hercules, Great Jove, Oh Help (Dejanira)
57. Act II: Love And Hymen, Hand In Hand (Chorus)
58. Act III: Sinfonia
59. Act III: Recitative, Ye sons Of Trachin, Mourn Your Valiant Chief (Lichas, First Trachinian)
60. Act III: Aria, O Scene Of Unexampled Woe (Lichas)
61. Act III: Recitative, O Fatal Jealousy (First Trachinian)
62. Act III: Tyrants Now No More Shall Dread (Chorus)
63. Act III: Aria, O Jove, What Land Is This, What Clime Accurst (Hercules)
64. Act III: Recitative, Great Jove, Relieve His Pains! (Hyllus)
65. Act III: Accompagnato, Was It For This Unnumber'd Toils I Bore? (Hercules, Hyllus)
66. Act III: Aria, Let Not Fame The Tidings Spread (Hyllus)
67. Act III: Accompagnato, Where Shall I Fly? Where Hide This Guilty Head? (Dejanira)
68. Act III: Recitative, Lo! The Fair Fatal Cause Of All This Ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)
69. Act III: Aria, My Breast With Tender Pity Swells (Iole)
70. Act III: Recitative, Accompagnato, Princess, Rejoice, Whose Heav'n-Directed Hand (Priest Of Jupiter, Dejanira)
71. Act III: Aria, He, Who For Atlas Prop'd The Sky (Lichas)
72. Act III: Recitative, Accompagnato, Words Are Too Faint To Speak The Warring Passions (Dejanira, Priest Of Jupiter)
73. Act III: Recitative, How Blest Is Hyllus, If The Lovely Iole (Hyllus, Iole)
74. Act III: Oh Prince, Whose Virtues All Admire (Iole, Hyllus)
75. Act III: Recitative, Ye Sons Of Freedom, Now, In Every Clime (Priest Of Jupiter)
76. Act III: To Him Your Grateful Notes Of Praise Belong (Chorus)

UPC: 747313296026
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 5.27.08
Format: CD