Handel: The Choice of Hercules

Album by The King's Consort.

Release date: 2002-04-01

Tracks (32)

  1. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: I. Sinfonia
  2. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 2, Accompagnato. See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain (Pleasure)
  3. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 3, Air. Come, Blooming Boy (Pleasure)
  4. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 4, Air. There the Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain (Pleasure)
  5. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 5, Solo and Chorus. While for Thy Arms That Beauty Glows (Pleasure)
  6. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 6, Recit. Away, Mistaken Wretch, Away! (Virtue)
  7. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 7, Air. This Manly Youth's Exalted Mind (Virtue)
  8. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 8, Recit. Rise, Youth! Exalt Thyself and Me! (Virtue)
  9. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 9, Air. Go, Assert Thy Heav'nly Race (Virtue)
  10. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 10, Recit. In Peace, in War (Virtue)
  11. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 11, Solo and Chorus. So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise (Virtue)
  12. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 12, Recit. Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage? (Pleasure)
  13. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 13, Solo and Chorus. Turn Thee, Youth, to Joy and Love (Pleasure)
  14. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 14, Recit. Short Is My Way, Fair, Easy, Smooth and Plain (Pleasure/Hercules)
  15. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 15, Air. Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay (Hercules)
  16. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 16, Air. Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove (Attendant on Pleasure)
  17. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 17, Recit. Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly? (Hercules)
  18. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 18, Trio. Where Shall I Go? (Hercules/Pleasure/Virtue)
  19. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 19, Recit. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)
  20. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20, Air. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)
  21. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 21, Chorus. Arise! Mount the Steep Ascent
  22. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 22, Recit. The Sounds Breathe Fire Celestial (Hercules)
  23. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 23, Air. Lead, Goddess, Lead the Way! (Hercules)
  24. The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 24, Chorus. Virtue Will Place Thee in That Blest Abode
  25. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 1, Solo. Hearken unto Me, Ye Holy Children
  26. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 2, Chorus. Magnify His Name
  27. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 3, Chorus. And in Praising Him You Shall Say
  28. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 4, Solo. To Be a Father to the Fatherless
  29. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 5, Duet. Therefore Shall He Receive a Glorious Kingdom
  30. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 6, Recit. How Is He Numb'red
  31. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 7, Solo. His Name Shall Endure for Ever
  32. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 8, Chorus. Blessed Be the Lord God of Our Fathers

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