The Kings Consort / Robert King - Handel: The Choice Of Hercules (CD)

Georg Friedrich Händel, Susan Gritton, Alice Coote, Robin Blaze, The Choir Of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King (9) — The Choice Of Hercules
Format: CD • Label: Hyperion (CDA67298) • Released: 2002 • Pressing: UK • Genre: Baroque, Oratorio, Choral, Orchestra

Tracklist:
1. The Choice Of Hercules (HWV 69)
2. Accompagnato (Pleasure) See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain
3. Air (Pleasure) Come, Blooming Boy
4. Air (Pleasure) There The Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain
5. Solo / Chorus (Pleasure) While For Thy Arms That Beauty Glows
6. Recitative (Virtue) Away, Mistaken Wretch, Away!
7. Air (Virtue) This Manly Youth's Exalted Mind
8. Recitative (Virtue) Rise, Youth! Exalte Thyself And Me!
9. Air (Virtue) Go, Assert Thy Heav'nly Race
10. Recitative (Virtue) In Peace, In War
11. Solo And Chorus (Virtue) So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise
12. Recitative (Pleasure) Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage?
13. Solo And Chorus (Pleasure) Turn Thee, Youth, To Joy And Love
14. Recitative (Pleasure / Hercules) Short Is My Way, Fair, Easy, Smooth And Plain
15. Air (Hercules) Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay
16. Air (Attendant On Pleasure) Enjoy The Sweet Elysian Grove
17. Recitative (Hercules) Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly?
18. Trio (Hercules / Pleasure / Virtue) Where Shall I Go?
19. Recitative (Virtue) Mount, Mount The Steep Ascent
20. Air (Virtue) Mount, Mount The Steep Ascent
21. (Chorus) Arise! Mount The Steep Ascent
22. Recitative (Hercules) The Sounds Breathe Fire
23. Air (Hercules) Lead, Goddess, Lead The Way!
24. (Chorus) Virtue Will Place Thee In That Blest Abode
25. Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children
26. (Chorus) Magnify His Name
27. (Chorus) And In Praising Him You Shall Say
28. (Solo) To Be A Father
29. (Duet) Therefore Shall He Receive A Glorious Kingdom
30. (Recitative) How Is He Numb'red
31. (Solo) His Name Shall Endure For Ever
32. (Chorus) Blessed Be The Lord God Of Our Fathers

Imported from the UK.