Theodora

by George Frideric Handel; Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Theodora: Ouverture3:04
  2. Theodora: Trio1:33
  3. Theodora: Courante1:39
  4. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "'Tis Diocletian's Natal Day"0:32
  5. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go"1:46
  6. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "And Draw a Blessing Down"2:05
  7. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "Vouchsafe, Dread Sir, a Gracious Ear"0:55
  8. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire"3:35
  9. Theodora, Part I Scene 1: "For Ever Thus Stands Fixed the Doom"1:33
  10. Theodora, Part I Scene 2: "Most Cruel Edict!"0:30
  11. Theodora, Part I Scene 2: "The Rapture'd Soul Defies the Sword"8:27
  12. Theodora, Part I Scene 2: "I Know Thy Virtues"0:41
  13. Theodora, Part I Scene 2: "Descend, Kind Pity, Heav'nly Guest"6:17
  14. Theodora, Part I Scene 3: "Tho' Hard, My Friends"0:27
  15. Theodora, Part I Scene 3: "Fond, Flatt'ring World, Adieu!"4:40
  16. Theodora, Part I Scene 3: "O Bright Example of all Goodness"0:29
  17. Theodora, Part I Scene 3: "Bane of Virtue"5:25
  18. Theodora, Part I Scene 3: "Come, Mighty Father"3:41
  19. Theodora, Part I Scene 4: "Fly, Fly, My Brethren"0:59
  20. Theodora, Part I Scene 4: "As With Rosy Steps the Morn"5:57
  21. Theodora, Part I Scene 4: "All Pow'r in Heav'n Above"2:18
  22. Theodora, Part I Scene 5: "Mistaken Wretches!"0:19
  23. Theodora, Part I Scene 5: "Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly"2:39
  24. Theodora, Part I Scene 5: "Deluded Mortal!"1:01
  25. Theodora, Part I Scene 5: "O Worse Than Death Indeed!"0:26
  26. Theodora, Part I Scene 5: "Angels, Ever Bright and Fair"3:20
  27. Theodora, Part I Scene 6: "Unhappy, Happy Crew!"1:09
  28. Theodora, Part I Scene 6: "Kind Heav'n, If Virtue Be Thy Care"5:27
  29. Theodora, Part I Scene 6: "O Love, How Great Thy Pow'r!"0:23
  30. Theodora, Part I Scene 6: "Go, Gen'rous, Pious Youth"5:52

CD 2

  1. Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Ye Men of Antioch"0:36
  2. Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Queen of Summer, Queen of Love"0:50
  3. Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Wide Spread His Name"2:14
  4. Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Return, Septimus"0:37
  5. Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Venus, Laughing From the Skies"1:18
  6. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: Symphony [I]1:06
  7. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "O Thou Bright Sun!"0:33
  8. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "With Darkness Deep as is My Woe"3:56
  9. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: Symphony [II]1:48
  10. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul?"0:29
  11. Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "Oh, That I on Wings Could Rise"3:40
  12. Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Long Have I Known"1:07
  13. Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Tho' the Honours That Flora and Venus Receive"3:02
  14. Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "O Save Her Then"0:36
  15. Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Deeds of Kindness to Display"6:34
  16. Theodora, Part II Scene 4: "The Clouds Begin to Veil the Hemisphere"0:38
  17. Theodora, Part II Scene 4: "Defend Her, Heav'n"4:35
  18. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Or Lulled With Grief"0:34
  19. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Sweet Rose and Lily, Flow'ry Form"2:43
  20. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "O Save Me, Heav'n"1:26
  21. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "The Pilgrim's Home, the Sick Man's Health"3:19
  22. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Forbid it, Heav'n!"0:31
  23. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Or Say, What Right Have I"1:33
  24. Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth"4:34
  25. Theodora, Part II Scene 6: "'Tis Night, But Night's Sweet Blessing"0:44
  26. Theodora, Part II Scene 6: "He Saw the Lovely Youth"5:15

CD 3

  1. Theodora, Part III Scene 1: "Lord, to Thee, Each Night and Day"4:20
  2. Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "But See the Good, the Virtuous Didymus!"0:36
  3. Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "When Sunk in Anguish and Despair"4:29
  4. Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "Blest Be the Hand"3:26
  5. Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "Undaunted in the Court"0:45
  6. Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "O My Irene, Heav'n Is Kind"0:34
  7. Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "Whither, Princess, Do You Fly"1:17
  8. Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "She's Gone, Disdaining Liberty and Life"0:30
  9. Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding On"3:29
  10. Theodora, Part III Scene 4-5: "Is it a Christian Virtue, Then" / "Be That My Doom"1:53
  11. Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "From Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed"7:05
  12. Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray'r"1:04
  13. Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "'Tis Kind, My Friends"0:55
  14. Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "How Strange Their Ends"4:24
  15. Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "On Me Your Frowns"0:42
  16. Theodora, Part III Scene 6: "And Must Such Beauty Suffer!"0:39
  17. Theodora, Part III Scene 6: "Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing" / "Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire"5:20
  18. Theodora, Part III Scene 7: "Ere This Their Doom Is Past"0:25
  19. Theodora, Part III Scene 7: "O Love Divine, Thou Source of Fame"4:09