Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) • Wahl des Herakles CD
Wahl des Herakles - The Choice of Hercules1. Symphony
2. Rezitativ: See, Hercules! How smiles you myrtle pain
3. Arie: Come, blooming boy, with my repair
4. Arie: There is the brisk sparkling nectar drain
5. Solo und Chor: While for arms that beauty glows - Seize, seize, these blessings, blooming boy
6. Rezitativ: Away, mistaken wretch, away
7. Arie: This manly youth's exalted mind
8. Rezitativ: Rise, youth! Exalt thyself and me
9. Arie: Go, assert thy heav'nly race
10. Rezitativ: In peace, in war pursue thy country's good
11. Solo und Chor: So shalt though gain immortal rise - The golden trump of fame
12. Rezitativ: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage?
13. Solo und Chor: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love - Why, ah why this fond delay?
14. Rezitativ: Short is my way, fair, easy, smoth and plain
15. Arie: Yet I can hear that dulcet lay
16. Arie: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove
17. Rezitativ: Oh! Whither, reason, dost thou fly?
18. Trio: Where shall I go?
19. Rezitativ: Mount, mount the steep ascend
20. Air: Mount, mount the steep ascend
21. Chor: Arise, arise
22. Rezitativ: The sounds breathe fire celestial
23. Arie: Lead goddess, lead the way
24. Chor: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
Venceslava Hruba-Freiberger • Arleen Auger • Alaine Zaeppffel • Eberhard Buechner • Leipziger Universitätschor • Max Pommer • Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum
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