The Choice Of Hercules

Symphony

Accompagnato (Pleasure) See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain

Air (Pleasure) Come, Blooming Boy

Air (Pleasure) There The Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain

Solo / Chorus (Pleasure) While For Thy Arms That Beauty Glows

Solo / Chorus (Pleasure) While For Thy Arms That Beauty Glows

Air (Virtue) This Manly Youth's Exalted Mind

Recitative (Virtue) Rise, Youth! Exalte Thyself And Me!

Air (Virtue) Go, Assert Thy Heav'nly Race

Recitative (Virtue) In Peace, In War

Solo And Chorus (Virtue) So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise

Recitative (Pleasure) Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage?

Solo And Chorus (Pleasure) Turn Thee, Youth, To Joy And Love

Recitative (Pleasure / Hercules) Short Is My Way, Fair, Easy, Smooth And Plain

Air (Hercules) Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay

Air (Attendant On Pleasure) Enjoy The Sweet Elysian Grove

Recitative (Hercules) Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly?

Trio (Hercules / Pleasure / Virtue) Where Shall I Go?

Recitative (Virtue) Mount, Mount The Steep Ascent

Air (Virtue) Mount, Mount The Steep Ascent

(Chorus) Arise! Mount The Steep Ascent

Recitative (Hercules) The Sounds Breathe Fire

Air (Hercules) Lead, Goddess, Lead The Way!

(Chorus) Virtue Will Place Thee In That Blest Abode