Recitativo: Why was I born a princess

~ Recording by Lynne Dawson, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.2	Recitativo: Why was I born a princess	0:18	George Frideric Handel	Hercules (HWV 60)	Handel; Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski	Album	DE2002-03-01	Archiv Produktion	469 532-2
25.2	Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why was I born a princess" (Iole)	0:18	George Frideric Handel	Handel: The Great Oratorios	George Frideric Handel	Album + Compilation	XW2016-07-01	Decca Classics (“DECCA” in white uppercase on a blue‐over‐red rectangular block; until 1999, for use outside of North America only)	4830142

Relationships

recording engineer:	Yves Baudry Guillaume Ledu
executive producer:	Arend Prohmann (producer / editor)
producer:	Michel Gache Arend Prohmann (producer / editor)
editor:	Yves Baudry Michel Gache
soprano vocals [Iole]:	Lynne Dawson (soprano) (in 2000-04)
orchestra:	Les Musiciens du Louvre (in 2000-04)
conductor:	Marc Minkowski (bassoonist and conductor) (in 2000-04)
balance engineer:	Gilles Pézerat (engineer)

phonographic copyright (℗) by:	Deutsche Grammophon (in 2002)

recorded at:	Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, Poissy, France in Poissy, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France (in 2000-04)

recording of:	Hercules, HWV 60: Act II (in 2000-04: partial)

Hercules, HWV 60: Act II

composer:	George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer) (from 1744-07 until 1744-08)
librettist:	Thomas Broughton (clergyman and librettist)

part of:

Hercules, HWV 60 (order: 2)

parts:

1. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 22: Aria "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Iole)
2. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 23: Recitativo "It must be so! Fame speaks aloud my wrongs" (Dejanira, Iole)
3. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 24: Aria "When beauty sorrow's livery wears" (Dejanira)
4. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 25: Recitavio "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (Iole)
5. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 26: Aria "Ah! I think what ills the jealous prove" (Iole)
6. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 27: Recitativo "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (Dejanira, Lichas)
7. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 28: Chorus "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
8. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 29: Recitativo "She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe" (Hyllus, Iole)
9. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 30: Aria "From celestial seats descending" (Hyllus)
10. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 31: Chorus "Wanton God of amorous fires"
11. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 32: Recitativo "Yes, I congratulate your titles, swelled" (Dejanira, Hercules)
12. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 33: Aria "Alcides' name in latest story" (Dejanira)
13. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 34: Recitativo "O glorious pattern of heroic dees!" (Dejanira)
14. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 35: Aria "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Dejanira)
15. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 36: Recitativo "You are deceived! Some villainhas belied Hercules" (Dejanira)
16. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 37: Aria "Cease, rules of the day, to rise" (Dejanira)
17. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 38: Recitativo "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (Dejanira, Lichas, Iole)
18. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 39: Duet "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (Dejanira, Iole)
19. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 40: Recitativo "Father of Hercules, great Jove, O help" (Dejanira)
20. Hercules, HWV 60: Act II, no. 41: Chorus "Love and Hymen, hand in hand"