‎Handel: Hercules by Musiciens du Louvre

Overture

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

4:32

Menuetto

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

2:02

Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Musiciens du Louvre

2:01

Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels

5:45

Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me"

Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski

0:50

Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter

4:30

Recitative: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Michel Maldonado

1:25

Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

Richard Croft, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

1:33

Recitative: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast"

Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yvon Repérant, Richard Croft, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski

0:58

Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Anne Sofie von Otter

3:21

Recitative: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend"

Michel Maldonado, Richard Croft, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant

0:26

Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Richard Croft

1:53

Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

5:18

Recitative: "Banish your fears!"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michel Maldonado, David Daniels, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant

0:30

Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away"

Anne Sofie von Otter, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

3:26

Recitative: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter

0:54

Aria: "The smiling hours"

Musiciens du Louvre, David Daniels, Marc Minkowski

1:20

Chorus: "Let none despair"

Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski

2:25

March

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

1:49

Recitative: "Thanks to the powers above"

Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Gidon Saks, Marc Minkowski

1:27

Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson

5:56

Recitative: "Now farewell, arms!"

Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Claire Giardelli, Gidon Saks, Mirella Giardelli

0:25

Aria: "The god of battle"

Marc Minkowski, Gidon Saks, Musiciens du Louvre

2:23

Recitative: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope"

Claire Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Lynne Dawson, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado

0:26

Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"

Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

5:55

Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

2:28

Sinfonia

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

1:11

Recitative: "Why was I born a princess"

Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, Lynne Dawson, Claire Giardelli

0:18

Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

Lynne Dawson, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

5:56

Recitative: "It must be so"

Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter

0:38

Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears"

Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

2:47

Recitative: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter

1:10

Aria: "Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson

5:52

Recitative: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, David Daniels, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado

0:19

Recitative: "In vain you strive"

Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, David Daniels, Michel Maldonado

0:16

Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

5:17

Recitative: "She knows my passion"

Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft, Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli

1:45

Aria: "Banish love from thy breast"

Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski

2:17

Recitative: "Forgive a passion"

Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Richard Croft, Yvon Repérant, Claire Giardelli

0:10

Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft, Musiciens du Louvre

5:36

Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

2:03

Recitative: "Yes, I congratulate"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant

0:44

Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"

Gidon Saks, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

4:47

Recitative: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski, Michel Maldonado, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant

0:29

Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils"

Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski

4:55

Recitative: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

Marc Minkowski, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Gidon Saks, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado

1:29

Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Anne Sofie von Otter

3:49

Recitative: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Yvon Repérant

1:26

Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"

David Daniels, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

3:54

Recitative: "But see, the princess Iole"

Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Yvon Repérant, Michel Maldonado

1:15

Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

2:32

Recitative: "Father of Hercules"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski

0:17

Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

3:55

Sinfonia

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

3:53

Recitative: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

Mirella Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Claire Giardelli, Marcos Pujol, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Yvon Repérant

1:26

Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

Musiciens du Louvre, David Daniels, Marc Minkowski

3:06

Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble

4:14

Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

Musiciens du Louvre, Gidon Saks, Marc Minkowski

2:23

Recitative: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

Claire Giardelli, Gidon Saks, Michel Maldonado, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski, Mirella Giardelli, Yvon Repérant

2:09

Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft

4:03

Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

Marc Minkowski, Anne Sofie von Otter, Musiciens du Louvre

6:13

Recitative: "Lo! The fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mirella Giardelli, Marc Minkowski, Lynne Dawson, Yvon Repérant, Michel Maldonado

1:16

Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson

6:49

Recitative: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

Marc Minkowski, Marcos Pujol, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Mirella Giardelli, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter

1:46

Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels

1:50

Recitative: "Words are too faint"

Marcos Pujol, Michel Maldonado, Marc Minkowski, Yvon Repérant, Lynne Dawson, Mirella Giardelli, Richard Croft, Claire Giardelli, Anne Sofie von Otter

1:06

Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft, Lynne Dawson

3:26

Recitative: "Ye sons of freedom"

Mirella Giardelli, Marcos Pujol, Claire Giardelli, Michel Maldonado, Yvon Repérant, Marc Minkowski

0:17

Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

2:35

Arend Prohmann

Producer, Executive Producer
Michel Gache

Producer
Arend Prohmann

Recording Engineer
Yves Baudry

Recording Engineer, Editing Engineer
Gilles Pezerat

Balance Engineer
Guillaume Ledu

Recording Engineer
Michel Gache

Recording Engineer, Editing Engineer
Donald Burrows

Liner Notes
Daniel Fesquet

Booklet Editor
Jim Four

Photography
Lillian Birnbaum

Photography
Alvaro Yanez

Photography
Brian Tarr

Photography
Dorothea Schroeder

Liner Notes
Sheila Rock

Photography
Lutz Bode

Creative Director
Ivan A. Alexandre

Liner Notes
Dan Hansson

Photography

Handel: Hercules

RECORD LABEL

George Frideric Handel

Musiciens du Louvre

Anne Sofie von Otter

Marc Minkowski

David Daniels

Production

Handel: Hercules

RECORD LABEL

On This Album

George Frideric Handel

Musiciens du Louvre

Anne Sofie von Otter

Marc Minkowski

David Daniels

Production