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• The Choice of Hercules - Sinfonia
• The Choice of Hercules - See Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain
• The Choice of Hercules - Come, blooming boy
• The Choice of Hercules - There the brisk sparkling nectar drain
• The Choice of Hercules - While for thy arms that beauty glows
• The Choice of Hercules - Away, mistaken wretch, away!
• The Choice of Hercules - This manly youth`s exalted mind
• The Choice of Hercules - Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me
• The Choice of Hercules - Go, assert thy heav`nly race
• The Choice of Hercules - In peace, in war
• The Choice of Hercules - So shalt thou gain immortal praise
• The Choice of Hercules - Hearst thou, what dangers then thou must engage?
• The Choice of Hercules - Turn thee, youth, to joy and love
• The Choice of Hercules - Short is my way, fair, easy, smooth and plain
• The Choice of Hercules - Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay
• The Choice of Hercules - Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove
• The Choice of Hercules - Oh! whither, reason, dost thou fly?
• The Choice of Hercules - Where shall I go?
• The Choice of Hercules - Mount, mount the steep ascent
• The Choice of Hercules - Mount, mount the steep ascent
• The Choice of Hercules - Arise! mount the steep ascent
• The Choice of Hercules - The sounds breathe fire
• The Choice of Hercules - Lead, goddess, lead the way!
• The Choice of Hercules - Virtue will place thee in that blest abode
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - We praise thee, O God
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - All the earth doth worship thee
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - To thee all angels cry aloud
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - To thee Cherubim and Seraphim
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - The glorious company of the Apostels
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Thou art the King of Glory
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - When thou tookest upon thee
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Thou sittest at the right hand of God
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Symphony
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - We therefore pray thee
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Make them to be number`d
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Day by day we magnify thee
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - Vouchsafe, O Lord
• Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283 - O Lord, in thee have I trusted

CD 1:
The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69

CD 2:
Dettingen Te Deum, HWV 283

This recording from the 2018 Göttingen Handel Festival presents two rarely heard works by George Frideric Handel: "The Choice of Hercules" and the "Te Deum for the Victory of Dettingen". In "The Choice of Hercules" from 1751, Handel musically processes the mythical theme of Hercules at the crossroads, whereby Hercules' vacillation between virtue and lust is ideal for the back and forth in the search for the right path in life. The "Dettingen Te Deum" (HWV 283) is a cantata composed by Handel in 1743. On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies under the command of King George II had defeated the French army at the Battle of Dettingen. Handel was commissioned to write a Te Deum "with timpani and trumpets" for the victory celebrations.

Laurence Cummings, the Handel Festival Orchestra, outstanding soloists and the legendary Christ Church Cathedral Choir from Oxford provide the successful performance.

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Live recording: 19 May 2018, Stadthalle Göttingen (Germany).