Hercules, HWV.60

Movements

Act I

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

Act II

1. no. 22: Aria "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Iole)
2. no. 23: Recitativo "It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs" (Dejanira, Iole)
3. no. 24: Aria "When beauty sorrow's livery wears" (Dejanira)
4. no. 25: Recitavio "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (Iole)
5. no. 26: Aria "Ah! I think what ills the jealous prove" (Iole)
6. no. 27: Recitativo "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (Dejanira, Lichas)
7. no. 28: Chorus "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
8. no. 29: Recitativo "She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe" (Hyllus, Iole)
9. no. 30: Aria "From celestial seats descending" (Hyllus)
10. no. 31: Chorus "Wanton God of amorous fires"
11. no. 32: Recitativo "Yes, I congratulate your titles, swelled" (Dejanira, Hercules)
12. no. 33: Aria "Alcides' name in latest story" (Dejanira)
13. no. 34: Recitativo "O glorious pattern of heroic dees!" (Dejanira)
14. no. 35: Aria "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Dejanira)
15. no. 36: Recitativo "You are deceived! Some villainhas belied Hercules" (Dejanira)
16. no. 37: Aria "Cease, rules of the day, to rise" (Dejanira)
17. no. 38: Recitativo "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (Dejanira, Lichas, Iole)
18. no. 39: Duet "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (Dejanira, Iole)
19. no. 40: Recitativo "Father of Hercules, great Jove, O help" (Dejanira)
20. no. 41: Chorus "Love and Hymen, hand in hand"

Act III

1. no. 42: Sinfonia
2. no. 43: Recitativo "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief" (Lichas)
3. no. 44: Aria "O scene of unexampled woe" (Lichas)
4. no. 45: Chorus "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
5. no. 46: Recitativo accompagnato "O Jove! What land is this, what clime accurst" (Hercules)
6. no. 47: Recitativo "Great Jove! Relieve his pains!" (Hyllus, Hercules)
7. no. 48: Aria "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Hyllus)
8. no. 49: Recitativo accompagnato "Where shall I fly? Where hide this quilty head?" (Dejanira)
9. no. 50: Recitativo "Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin! (Dejanira, Iole)
10. no. 51: Aria "My breast with tender pity swells" (Iole)
11. no. 52: Recitativo "Princess, rejoice! Whose heaven heaven-directed hand" (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira)
12. no. 53: Recitativo "Words are too faint to speak the warring passions" (Dejanira, Priest, Hyllus, Iole)
13. no. 54: Duet "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (Iole, Hyllus)
14. no. 55: Recitativo "Ye sons of freedom, now in every clime" (Priest)
15. no. 56: Chorus "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

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