Handel - Hercules | Naxos 855796062

Handel - Hercules

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 855796062

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Nicola Wemyss (mezzo-soprano)
Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
Franz Vitzthum (countertenor)
Knut Schoch (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Liselotte Kuhn (soprano)
Franz Schneider (bass)
Junge Kantorei
Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Joachim Carlos Martini

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Hercules, HWV60

Artists

Nicola Wemyss (mezzo-soprano)
Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
Franz Vitzthum (countertenor)
Knut Schoch (tenor)
Peter Kooij (bass)
Liselotte Kuhn (soprano)
Franz Schneider (bass)
Junge Kantorei
Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra

Conductor

Joachim Carlos Martini

About

Handel composed Hercules for his 1744-45 oratorio season as the secular foil to one of his most ambitious sacred dramas, Belshazzar, hoping to repeat the success of the previous season’s Samson/Semele pairing.

Like Semele, Hercules, which Handel called ‘A Musical Drama’, is an English opera in all but name and shares its theme of the destructive power of sexual jealousy.

Handel’s music is of outstanding quality and the commanding figure of Dejanira – rapturous in her love for her returning hero, distraught at his imagined dalliance with Iöle, eventually mad with despair at the enormity of her misguided actions – is one of his most powerfully drawn female rôles.

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