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Robert King, The King’s Consort - Handel: The Choice of Hercules; Maurice Greene: Hearken unto me, ye holy children (2002)

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Robert King, The King’s Consort - Handel: The Choice of Hercules; Maurice Greene: Hearken unto me, ye holy children (2002)

Robert King, The King’s Consort - Handel: The Choice of Hercules; Maurice Greene: Hearken unto me, ye holy children (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 62:32 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67298 | Recorded: 2001

When Handel introduced English oratorios to London in the 1730s, he did not confine himself to sacred subjects, exploring also Classical myths, with texts based on Roman and Greek literature. The Choice of Hercules marks Handel’s last realisation of a Classical tale. It started life in 1749 as music for Alceste, but the Covent Garden production was cancelled, leaving Handel with an hour of superb music on his hands. By the summer of 1750 he had adapted several numbers and added new ones, and in 1751 it premiered as ‘an additional New Act’ concluding a performance of the ode Alexander’s Feast. Much of the music from the original conception (the story of a loyal wife who dies to save her husband and is subsequently rescued from the Underworld by Hercules) transferred easily to its new guise, for example the noble opening Sinfonia, originally intended to mark Hercules’ return from the Underworld, now entirely apt for the entrance of the young Hercules in the new drama.
Hercules’ choice is thus: on the verge of manhood, he is contemplating his future when two women appear to him. One, Vice, eager and seductive, shows him a path which seems to offer easy progress to a life of indolent pleasure. The other, tall and beautiful and identified as Virtue, warns Hercules that what is truly good can only be obtained through hard effort; and only then can Hercules gain supreme glory.
Also on this disc is an anthem by Maurice Greene, a contemporary of Handel, and by all accounts an arch rival, particularly when Handel was chosen above Greene by George II to write the new anthems for his coronation.
Full marks to Robert King who has assembled yet again a formidably superb collection of artists to perform this particularly attractive repertoire.

Performer:
George Frederick Handel - The Choice of Hercules:
Pleasure - Susan Gritton (soprano)
Virtue - Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)
Hercules - Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Attendant on Pleasure - Charles Daniels (tenor)

Maurice Greene - Hearken unto me, ye holy children:
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Charles Daniels (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
The King’s Consort
Choir of the King’s Consort
Conductor - Robert King

Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The Choice Of Hercules, HWV 69
01. Sinfonia
02. Accompagnato PLEASURE: See Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain
03. Air PLEASURE: Come, blooming boy
04. Air PLEASURE: There the brisk sparkling nectar drain
05. Solo & Chorus PLEASURE: While for thy arms that beauty glows
06. Recitative VIRTUE: Away, mistaken wretch, away!
07. Air VIRTUE: This manly youth's exalted mind
08. Recitative VIRTUE: Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me!
09. Air VIRTUE: Go, assert thy heav'nly race
10. Recitative VIRTUE: In peace, in war
11. Solo & Chorus VIRTUE: So shalt thou gain immortal praise
12. Recitative PLEASURE: Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage?
13. Solo & 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 celestial
23. Air HERCULES: Lead, goddess, lead the way!
24. Chorus: Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
Maurice Greene (1696-1755)
Hearken Unto Me
25. Solo (RB): Hearken unto me, ye holy children
26. Chorus: Magnify his name
27. Chorus: And in praising Him you shall say
28. Solo (CD):To be a father to the fatherless
29. Duet (RB, CD): Therefore shall he receive a glorious kingdom
30. Recitative (PH): How is he numb'red
31. Solo (PH): His name shall endure for ever
32. Chorus: Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers


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