Hercules, HWV 60: Act I

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composer:	George Frideric Handel (from 1744-07 until 1744-08)
librettist:	Thomas Broughton

part of:

Hercules, HWV 60 (order: 1)

parts:

1. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 1: Overtura
2. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 2: Recitativo accompagnato "See with what sad dejection" (Lichas)
3. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 3: Aria "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (Lichas)
4. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 4: Recitativo accompagnato "O Hercules! Why art thou absent from me" (Dejanira)
5. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 5: Aria "The world, when day's career is run" (Dejanira)
6. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 6: Recitativo "Princess! Be comforted, and hope the best" (Lichas, Dejanira, Hyllys)
7. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 7: Aria "I feel, I feel the god" (Hyllus)
8. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 8: Recitativo "Then I am lost! O dreadful oracle!" (Dejanira)
9. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 9: Aria "There in myrtle shades reclined" (Dejanira)
10. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 10: Recitativo "Despair not! But let rising hope suspend" (Hyllus)
11. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 11: Aria "Where congealed the northern streams" (Hyllus)
12. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 12: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
13. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 13: Recitativo "Banish your fears! The noble" (Hercules, Lichas, Dejanira)
14. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 14: Aria "Begone my fears, fly hence, away" (Dejanira)
15. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 15: Recitativo "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
16. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 16: March
17. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 17: Recitativo "Thanks to the powers above" (Hercules, Iole)
18. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 18: Aria "My father! Ah! Methinks I see" (Iole)
19. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 19: Recitativo "Now farewell, arms! From hence the tide of time" (Hercules)
20. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 20: Aria "The god of battle quits the bloody field" (Hercules)
21. Hercules, HWV 60: Act I, no. 21: Chorus "Crown with festal pomp the day"

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
2000-04	Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!	partial	Lynne Dawson, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	5:55
2000-04	Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train	partial	David Daniels, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	1:21
2000-04	Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late	partial	Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	2:26
2000-04	Menuetto	partial	Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	2:03
2000-04	Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope	partial	Lynne Dawson, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	0:27
2000-04	Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast	partial	Richard Croft, Anne Sofie von Otter, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	0:58