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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)