‎Handel: Hercules by Marc Minkowski

Overture

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

4:32

Menuetto

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

2:02

Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels

2:01

Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Musiciens du Louvre

5:45

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

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter

0:50

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

Anne Sofie von Otter, Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

4:30

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

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

1:25

Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft, Musiciens du Louvre

1:33

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

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

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"

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

0:26

Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Richard Croft

1:53

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

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

5:18

Recitative: "Banish your fears!"

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

0:30

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

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter

3:26

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

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

0:54

Aria: "The smiling hours"

Marc Minkowski, David Daniels, Musiciens du Louvre

1:20

Chorus: "Let none despair"

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

2:25

March

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

1:49

Recitative: "Thanks to the powers above"

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

1:27

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

Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski

5:56

Recitative: "Now farewell, arms!"

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

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

0:26

Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson

5:55

Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

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

2:28

Sinfonia

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

1:11

Recitative: "Why was I born a princess"

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

0:18

Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski

5:56

Recitative: "It must be so"

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

0:38

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

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Anne Sofie von Otter

2:47

Recitative: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

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

1:10

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

Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski

5:52

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

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

0:19

Recitative: "In vain you strive"

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

0:16

Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

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

5:17

Recitative: "She knows my passion"

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

0:10

Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Richard Croft

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"

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

0:44

Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Gidon Saks

4:47

Recitative: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!"

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

0:29

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

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter

4:55

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

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

1:29

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

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter

3:49

Recitative: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

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

1:26

Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear"

Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, David Daniels

3:54

Recitative: "But see, the princess Iole"

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

1:15

Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

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

2:32

Recitative: "Father of Hercules"

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

0:17

Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, 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"

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

1:26

Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

David Daniels, Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre

3:06

Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

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

4:14

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

Marc Minkowski, Musiciens du Louvre, Gidon Saks

2:23

Recitative: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

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

2:09

Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

Musiciens du Louvre, Richard Croft, Marc Minkowski

4:03

Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

Musiciens du Louvre, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marc Minkowski

6:13

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

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

1:16

Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

Musiciens du Louvre, Lynne Dawson, Marc Minkowski

6:49

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

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

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"

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

1:06

Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

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

3:26

Recitative: "Ye sons of freedom"

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

0:17

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

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

2:35

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Marc Minkowski

Conductor
Anne Sofie von Otter

Vocals, Mezzo-Soprano
Musiciens du Louvre

Orchestra, Ensemble, Choir
David Daniels

Vocals

Arend Prohmann

Producer, Executive Producer
Michel Gache

Producer
Gilles Pezerat

Balance Engineer
Arend Prohmann

Recording Engineer
Michel Gache

Recording Engineer, Editing Engineer
Guillaume Ledu

Recording Engineer
Yves Baudry

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

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George Frideric Handel

Marc Minkowski

Anne Sofie von Otter

Musiciens du Louvre

David Daniels

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Handel: Hercules

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