Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20, Air. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)

The King's Consort, Robert King, Alice Coote & George Frideric Handel

Handel: The Choice of Hercules

1 MINUTE AND 3 SECONDS

Album tracklist

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: I. Sinfonia

01:19

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 2, Accompagnato. See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain (Pleasure)

02:42

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 3, Air. Come, Blooming Boy (Pleasure)

02:19

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 4, Air. There the Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain (Pleasure)

02:36

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 5, Solo and Chorus. While for Thy Arms That Beauty Glows (Pleasure)

02:36

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 6, Recit. Away, Mistaken Wretch, Away! (Virtue)

00:30

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 7, Air. This Manly Youth's Exalted Mind (Virtue)

05:32

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 8, Recit. Rise, Youth! Exalt Thyself and Me! (Virtue)

00:17

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 9, Air. Go, Assert Thy Heav'nly Race (Virtue)

02:53

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 10, Recit. In Peace, in War (Virtue)

00:19

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 11, Solo and Chorus. So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise (Virtue)

01:47

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 12, Recit. Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage? (Pleasure)

00:27

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 13, Solo and Chorus. Turn Thee, Youth, to Joy and Love (Pleasure)

02:32

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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)

00:40

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 15, Air. Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay (Hercules)

04:20

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 16, Air. Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove (Attendant on Pleasure)

02:18

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 17, Recit. Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly? (Hercules)

00:15

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 18, Trio. Where Shall I Go? (Hercules/Pleasure/Virtue)

01:48

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 19, Recit. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)

00:40

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20, Air. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)

01:03

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 21, Chorus. Arise! Mount the Steep Ascent

02:08

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 22, Recit. The Sounds Breathe Fire Celestial (Hercules)

00:15

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 23, Air. Lead, Goddess, Lead the Way! (Hercules)

04:49

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 24, Chorus. Virtue Will Place Thee in That Blest Abode

04:35

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 1, Solo. Hearken unto Me, Ye Holy Children

03:03

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 2, Chorus. Magnify His Name

01:32

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 3, Chorus. And in Praising Him You Shall Say

02:45

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 4, Solo. To Be a Father to the Fatherless

01:44

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 5, Duet. Therefore Shall He Receive a Glorious Kingdom

01:42

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 6, Recit. How Is He Numb'red

00:34

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 7, Solo. His Name Shall Endure for Ever

02:18

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Greene: Hearken Unto Me, Ye Holy Children: No. 8, Chorus. Blessed Be the Lord God of Our Fathers

03:12

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: No. 20, Air. Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent (Virtue)

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