Theodora

Tracklist

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• 1 Theodora, HWV 68: Overture 2:58
• 2 Theodora, HWV 68: Trio 1:45
• 3 Theodora, HWV 68: Courante 1:36
• 4 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “’Tis Diocletian’s Natal Day” (Valens) 0:30
• 5 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go” (Valens) 1:52
• 6 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “And Draw a Blessing Down” (The Heathens) 2:03
• 7 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Recitative “Vouchsafe, Dread Sir” (Didymus, Valens) 1:02
• 8 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Air “Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire” (Valens) 3:15
• 9 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 1: Chorus “For Ever Thus Stands Fix’d the Doom” (The Heathens) 1:40
• 10 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “Most Cruel Edict” (Didymus, Septimius) 0:35
• 11 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “The Raptur’d Soul” (Didymus) 8:12
• 12 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Recitative “I Know Thy Virtues” (Septimius) 0:42
• 13 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 2: Air “Descend, Kind Pity, Heav’nly Guest” (Septimius) 8:11
• 14 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “Though Hard, My Friends” (Theodora) 0:27
• 15 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Fond, Flatt’ring World, Adieu” (Theodora) 4:00
• 16 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Recitative “O Bright Example of All Goodness” (Irene) 0:38
• 17 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Air “Bane of Virtue” (Irene) 5:51
• 18 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 3: Chorus “Come, Mighty Father” (The Christians) 2:29
• 19 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Recitative “Fly, Fly, My Brethren” (Messenger, Irene) 1:08
• 20 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Air “As with Rosy Steps the Morn” (Irene) 7:18
• 21 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 4: Chorus “All Pow’r in Heav’n Above” (The Christians) 2:17
• 22 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Mistaken Wretches!” (Septimius) 0:20
• 23 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly” (Septimius) 2:41
• 24 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Recitative “Deluded Mortal!” (Theodora, Septimius) 1:02
• 25 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Accompagnato “Oh, Worse Than Death Indeed” (Theodora) 0:23
• 26 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 5: Air “Angels, Ever Bright and Fair” (Theodora) 3:39
• 27 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “Unhappy, Happy Crew!” (Didymus, Irene) 1:13
• 28 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Air “Kind Heav’n, If Virtue Be Thy Care” (Didymus) 5:21
• 29 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Recitative “O Love, How Great Thy Pow’r!” (Irene) 0:34
• 30 Theodora, HWV 68, Part I Scene 6: Chorus “Go, Gen’rous, Pious Youth” (The Christians) 4:41
• 31 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Ye Men of Antioch” (Valens) 0:33
• 32 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Queen of Summer, Queen of Love” (The Heathens) 0:42
• 33 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Air “Wide Spread His Name” (Valens) 2:11
• 34 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Recitative “Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid” (Valens) 0:40
• 35 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 1: Chorus “Venus, Laughing from the Skies” (The Heathens) 1:19
• 36 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Symphony 0:54
• 37 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “O Thou Bright Sun” (Theodora) 0:35
• 38 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “With Darkness Deep, as is My Woe” (Theodora) 3:07
• 39 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air 1:03
• 40 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Recitative “But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul” (Theodora) 0:30
• 41 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 2: Air “Oh That I on Wings Could Rise” (Theodora) 3:23
• 42 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Long Have I Known” (Didymus, Septimius) 1:20
• 43 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Though the Honours” (Septimius) 3:12
• 44 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Recitative “Oh, Save Her Then” (Didymus, Septimius) 0:38
• 45 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 3: Air “Deeds of Kindness to Display” (Didymus) 7:01
• 46 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Recitative “The Clouds Begin to Veil” (Irene) 0:40
• 47 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 4: Air “Defend Her, Heav’n!” (Irene) 5:46
• 48 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Lull’d With Grief” (Didymus) 0:38
• 49 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “Sweet Rose and Lily” (Didymus) 2:17
• 50 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Oh, Save Me, Heav’n” (Theodora, Didymus) 1:33
• 51 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Air “The Pilgrim’s Home” (Theodora) 2:58
• 52 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Accompagnato “Forbid It, Heav’n!” (Didymus) 0:37
• 53 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Recitative “Or Say, What Right Have I to Take” (Didymus, Theodora) 1:58
• 54 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 5: Duet “To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth” (Theodora, Didymus) 4:26
• 55 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Recitative “’Tis Night” (Irene) 0:47
• 56 Theodora, HWV 68, Part II Scene 6: Chorus “He Saw the Lovely Youth” (The Heathens) 3:42
• 57 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 1: Air “Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day” (Irene) 7:04
• 58 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Recitative “But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus” (Irene, Theodora) 0:38
• 59 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Air “When Sunk in Anguish and Despair” (Theodora) 3:36
• 60 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 2: Theodora and Chorus “Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow’r” (Theodora, The Christians) 3:39
• 61 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Undaunted in the Court” (Messenger, Irene) 0:50
• 62 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato “O My Irene” (Theodora) 0:29
• 63 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “Stay Me Not, Dear Friend” (Theodora) 0:14
• 64 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Duet “Whither, Princess, Do You Fly” (Irene, Theodora) 1:12
• 65 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Recitative “She’s Gone” (Irene) 0:38
• 66 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 3: Air “New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding on” (Irene) 4:17
• 67 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 4: Recitative “Is It a Christian Virtue” (Valens, Didymus, Theodora, Septimius) 1:12
• 68 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “Be That My Doom” (Theodora, Septimius) 1:02
• 69 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “From Virtue Springs Each Gen’rous Deed” (Septimius) 5:45
• 70 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray’r” (Valens) 1:02
• 71 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “’Tis Kind, My Friends” (Didymus, Theodora) 1:01
• 72 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Chorus “How Strange Their Ends, Yet How Glorious” (The Heathens) 2:50
• 73 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Recitative “On Me Your Frowns” (Didymus, Theodora, Valens) 0:37
• 74 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 5: Air “Ye Ministers of Justice” (Valens) 1:26
• 75 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Recitative “And Must Such Beauty Suffer?” (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius) 0:54
• 76 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 6: Air and Duet “Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing” (Didymus, Theodora) 5:37
• 77 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Recitative “Ere This, Their Doom is Past” (Irene) 0:30
• 78 Theodora, HWV 68, Part III Scene 7: Chorus “O Love Divine” (The Christians) 2:42

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