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Handel: Hercules

John Tomlinson (Hercules), Sarah Walker (Dejanira), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Hyllus), Margaret Cable (Lichas), Jennifer Smith (Iole), David Wilson-Johnson (Priest)

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Hercules
Gardiner's brisk performance...conveys superbly the vigour of the writing, its natural drama; the the fire of the performance is typified by the outstanding singing of Sarah Walker as Dejanira....

Penguin Guide, 20103 out of 4 stars

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Handel: Hercules

John Tomlinson (Hercules), Sarah Walker (Dejanira), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Hyllus), Margaret Cable (Lichas), Jennifer Smith (Iole), David Wilson-Johnson (Priest)

The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

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Gardiner's brisk performance...conveys superbly the vigour of the writing, its natural drama; the the fire of the performance is typified by the outstanding singing of Sarah Walker as Dejanira....

Penguin Guide, 20103 out of 4 stars

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Handel: Hercules
Work length2:32:27
Overture
Track length6:58
Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"
Track length1:32
Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"
Track length5:54
Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"
Track length4:56
Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
Track length1:39
Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"
Track length1:29
Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."
Track length3:27
Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"
Track length2:54
Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
Track length3:38
Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"
Track length4:12
Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
Track length0:57
March
Track length1:38
Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"
Track length2:03
Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"
Track length6:11
Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"
Track length3:42
Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
Track length2:37
Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"
Track length3:21
Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"
Track length4:12
Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
Track length1:22
Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"
Track length6:02
Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
Track length0:25
Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
Track length5:50
Recit: "She knows my passion"
Track length1:21
Aria: "From celestial seats descending"
Track length6:04
Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
Track length1:54
Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"
Track length5:52
Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"
Track length6:18
Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
Track length1:33
Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"
Track length3:27
Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
Track length2:29
Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
Track length3:05
Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
Track length4:44
Sinfonia
Track length2:45
Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
Track length1:35
Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"
Track length2:53
Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
Track length2:56
Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"
Track length2:24
Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
Track length2:14
Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"
Track length2:16
Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"
Track length5:51
Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
Track length1:34
Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"
Track length7:37
Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
Track length2:03
Recit: "Words are too faint"
Track length1:06
Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
Track length2:16
Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
Track length3:11

Awards and reviews

2010

Gardiner's brisk performance...conveys superbly the vigour of the writing, its natural drama; the the fire of the performance is typified by the outstanding singing of Sarah Walker as Dejanira. John Tomlinson makes an excellent, dark-toned Hercules. Fresh voices consistently help in the clarity of attack...Refined playing and outstanding recording quality make this most welcome at mid-price.
3 out of 4 stars
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