Handel: The Choice of Hercules

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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: I. Sinfonia
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 2, Accompagnato. See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain (Pleasure)
   2:42
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 3, Air. Come, Blooming Boy (Pleasure)
   2:19
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 4, Air. There the Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain (Pleasure)
   2:36
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 5, Solo and Chorus. While for Thy Arms That Beauty Glows (Pleasure)
   2:36
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 6, Recit. Away, Mistaken Wretch, Away! (Virtue)
   0:30
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 7, Air. This Manly Youth's Exalted Mind (Virtue)
   5:31
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 8, Recit. Rise, Youth! Exalt Thyself and Me! (Virtue)
   0:17
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   Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 9, Air. Go, Assert Thy Heav'nly Race (Virtue)
   2:52
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 10, Recit. In Peace, in War (Virtue)
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 11, Solo and Chorus. So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise (Virtue)
    1:46
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 12, Recit. Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage? (Pleasure)
    0:27
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 13, Solo and Chorus. Turn Thee, Youth, to Joy and Love (Pleasure)
    2:32
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 14, Recit. Short Is My Way, Fair, Easy, Smooth and Plain (Pleasure/Hercules)
    0:39
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 15, Air. Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay (Hercules)
    4:18
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 16, Air. Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove (Attendant on Pleasure)
    2:18
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 17, Recit. Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly? (Hercules)
    0:15
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 18, Trio. Where Shall I Go? (Hercules/Pleasure/Virtue)
    1:47
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 19, Recit. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20, Air. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 21, Chorus. Arise! Mount the Steep Ascent
    2:08
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 22, Recit. The Sounds Breathe Fire Celestial (Hercules)
    0:15
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 23, Air. Lead, Goddess, Lead the Way! (Hercules)
    4:49
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 24, Chorus. Virtue Will Place Thee in That Blest Abode
    4:34
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 1, Solo. Hearken unto Me, Ye Holy Children
    3:02
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 2, Chorus. Magnify His Name
    1:32
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 3, Chorus. And in Praising Him You Shall Say
    2:45
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 4, Solo. To Be a Father to the Fatherless
    1:43
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 5, Duet. Therefore Shall He Receive a Glorious Kingdom
    1:42
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 6, Recit. How Is He Numb'red
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 7, Solo. His Name Shall Endure for Ever
    2:18
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    Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 8, Chorus. Blessed Be the Lord God of Our Fathers
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