Handel : theodora
(2003)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Warner Classics International : Made available through hoopla, 2003
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 58 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
809274318169 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT11668398, 11668398
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Handel : Theodora : Overture to Part I - Allegro (3:05) -- Handel : Theodora : Overture to Part I - Trio (1:33) -- Handel : Theodora : Overture to Part I - Courante (1:40) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "'Tis Diocletian's natal day" [Valens] (0:32) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Go, my faithful soldier, go" [Valens] (1:46) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "And draw a blessing down" [Chorus] (2:05) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Vouchsafe, dread Sir, a gracious ear" [Didymus, Valens] (0:55) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" [Valens] (3:36) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "For ever thus stands fixed the doom" [Chorus] (1:34) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Most cruel edict!" [Didymus] (0:31) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "The raptur'd soul defies the sword" [Didymus] (8:28) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "I know thy virtues" [Septimius] (0:41) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Desend, kind pity, heav'nly guest" [Septimius] (6:17) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Tho' hard, my friends" [Theodora] (0:28) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!" [Theodora] (4:41) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "O bright example of all goodness!" [Irene] (0:29) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Bane of virtue" [Irene] (5:26) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Come, mighty Father" [Chorus] (3:41) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Fly, fly, my brethren" [Messenger] "Ah! whither should we fly?" [Irene] (0:59) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "As with rosy steps the morn" [Irene] (5:57) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "All pow'r in Heav'n above" [Chorus] (2:18) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Mistaken wretches!" [Septimius] (0:20) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" [Septimius] (2:40) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Deluded mortal!" [Theodora, Septimius] (1:02) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Oh worse than death indeed!" [Theodora] (0:27) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Angels, ever bright and fair" [Theodora] (3:20) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Unhappy, happy crew!" [Didymus, Irene] (1:09) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Kind Heav'n, if virtue be thy care" [Didymus] (5:28) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "O love, how great thy pow'r!" [Irene] (0:24) -- Handel : Theodora : Part I "Go gen'rous, pious youth" [Chorus] (5:53) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Ye men of Antioch" [Valens] (0:36) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Queen of summer, queen of love" [Chorus] (0:50) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Wide spread his name" [Valens] (2:14) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Return, Septimius" [Valens] (0:38) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Venus, laughing from the skies" [Chorus] (1:19) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II Symphony (1:06) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "O thou bright sun!" [Theodora] (0:33) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "With Darkness deep as is my woe" [Theodora] (3:57) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II Sinfonia (1:49) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "But why art thou disquieted, my soul?" [Theodora] (0:29) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Oh, that I on wings could rise" [Theodora] (3:41) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Long have I known" [Didymus, Septimius] (1:08) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Tho' the honours that Flora and Venus receive" [Septimius] (3:02) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "O save her then" [Didymus, Septimius] (0:36) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Deeds of kindness to display" [Didymus] (6:34) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere" [Irene] (0:39) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Defend her, Heav'n" [Irene] (4:36) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Or lulled with grief" [Didymus] (0:35) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Sweet rose and lilly, flow'ry form" [Didymus] (2:44) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "O save me, Heav'n" [Theodora, Didymus] (1:27) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health" [Theodora] (3:19) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Forbid it, Heav'n!" [Didymus] (0:32) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "Or say, what right have I" [Didymus, Theodora] (1:33) -- Handel : Theodora, HWV 68, Part 2: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus) (4:35) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "'Tis night, but night's sweet blessing" [Irene] (0:45) -- Handel : Theodora : Part II "He saw the lovely youth" [Chorus] (5:16) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Lord to thee, each night and day" [Irene] (4:20) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus!" [Irene, Theodora] (0:36) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "When sunk in anguish and despair" [Theodora] (4:30) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Blest be the hand" [Chorus, Theodora] (3:27) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Undaunted in the court" [Messenger, Irene] (0:46) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "O my Irene, Heav'n is kind" "Stay me not, my friend" [Theodora] (0:34) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Whither, Princess, do you fly" [Irene, Theodora] (1:18) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "She's gone, disdaining liberty and life" [Irene] (0:31) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "New scenes of joy come crowding on" [Irene] (3:30) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Is it a Christian virtue, then" [Valens, Didymus] "Be that my doom" [Theodora, Septimius] (1:53) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "From Virtue springs each gen'rous deed" [Septimius] (7:05) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" [Valens] (1:05) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "'Tis kind, my friends" [Didymus, Theodora] (0:56) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "How strange their ends" [Chorus] (4:25) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "On me your frowns" [Didymus, Theodora, Valens] (0:43) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "And must such beauty suffer!" [Didymus, Theodora, Septimius] (0:39) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Streams of pleasure ever flowing..." "Thither let our hearts aspire!" [Didymus, Theodora] (5:20) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "Ere this their doom is past" [Irene] (0:25) -- Handel : Theodora : Part III "O love divine, thou source of fame" [Irene, Chorus] (4:09)

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