The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 (Handel, George Frideric)
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G.F. Händel's Werke: Ausgabe der Deutschen Händelgesellschaft (1858-94,1902); Band 18.
Leipzig: Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, 1863. Plate H.W. 18.
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| Work Title | The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69 |
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| Alternative Title |
| Composer | Handel, George Frideric |
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| Opus/Catalogue Number | HWV 69 |
| Year/Date of Composition | 28 June - 5 July 1750 |
| Librettist | By Robert Lowth, 1734-7, adapted, probably by Morell. |
| Language | English / German |
| Genre | Oratorio |
| Piece Style | Baroque |
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- Part 1
- 1. Overture
- 2. Accompagnato: See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain (Pleasure)
- 3. Aria: Come, blooming boy, with me repair (Pleasure)
- 4. Aria: There the brisk sparkling nectar repair (Pleasure)
- 5. Solo and Chorus
- 5a. Solo: While for thy arms that Beauty glows (Pleasure)
- 5b. Chorus: Seize, seize these blessings, blooming boy! (Chorus)
- Recitative: Away, mistaken wretch, away! (Virtue)
- 6. Aria: This manly youth's exalted mind (Virtue)
- Recitative: Rise youth! exalt thyself and me (Virtue)
- 7. Aria: Go, assert thy heav'nly race (Virtue)
- Recitative: In peace, in war, pursue thy country's good (Virtue)
- 8. Solo and Chorus
- 8a. Solo: So shalt thou gain immortal praise (Virtue)
- 8b. Chorus: The golden trump of Fame
- Recitative: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage? (Pleasure)
- 9. Solo and Chorus
- 9a. Solo: Turn thee, youth, to joy and love (Pleasure)
- 9b. Chorus: Why, ah why this fond delay?
- Part 2
- Recitative: Short is my way (Pleasure, Hercules)
- 10. Aria: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (Hercules)
- 11. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (an Attendant of Pleasure's)
- Recitative: Oh! whither, Reason, dost thou fly? (Hercules)
- 12. Trio: Where shall I go? (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
- 13. Accompagnato: Mount, mount the steep ascent! (Virtue)
- 14. Aria: Mount, mount the steep ascent (Virtue)
- 15. Chorus: Arise, arise!
- Recitative: The sounds breathe fire celestial (Hercules)
- 16. Aria: Lead, Goddess, lead the way (Hercules)
- 17. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
