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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Overture - 1a. Ouverture (3:03) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Overture - 1b. Trio (1:48) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Overture - 1c. Courante (1:44) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 2. Recitative: "'Tis Dioclesian's natal day" (0:34) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 3. Aria: "Go, my faithful soldier, go" (1:51) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 4. Chorus Of Heathens: "And draw a blessing down" (2:06) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 5. Recitative: "Vouchsafe, dread Sir" (0:56) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 6. Aria: "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" (3:20) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 7. Chorus Of Heathens: "For ever thus stand fix'd" (1:37) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 8. Recitative: "Most cruel edict" (0:30) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 9. Aria: "The raptur'd soul" (8:19) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 10. Recitative: "I know thy virtues" (0:44) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 11. Aria: "Descend, kind Pity" (7:14) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 12. Recitative: "Though hard, my friends" (0:28) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 13. Aria: "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu" (4:19) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 14. Recitative: "Oh bright example" (0:27) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 15. Aria: "Bane of virtue" (5:07) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 16. Chorus Of Christians: "Come, mighty Father" (2:35) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 17. Recitative: "Fly, fly, my brethren" (1:02) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 18. Aria: "As with rosy steps the morn" (6:48) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 19. Chorus: "All pow'r in heav'n" (2:15) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 20. Recitative: "Mistaken wretches!" (0:22) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 21. Aria: "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" (2:43) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 22. Recitative: "Deluded mortal"/Accompagnato: "O worse than death indeed" (1:21) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 23. Aria: "Angels, ever bright and fair" (3:36) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 24. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" (1:12) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 25. Air: "Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care" (4:57) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 26. Recitative: "Oh love! how great thy pow'r" (0:31) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 1 - 27. Chorus: "Go, gen'rous pious youth" (4:52) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 28. Recitative: "Ye men of Antioch" (0:36) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 29. Chorus Of Heathens: "Queen of summer" (0:50) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 30. Aria: "Wide spread his name" (2:24) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 31. Recitative: "Return, Septimius" (0:37) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 32. Chorus Of Heathens: "Venus laughing from the skies" (1:20) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 33. Sinfony (1:02) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 34. Recitative: "Oh thous bright sun!" (0:39) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 35. Aria: "With darkness deep" (3:56) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 36. Sinfony (1:22) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 39. Recitative: "Long have I known" (1:22) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 40. Aria: "Though the honours, that Flora" (3:57) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 41. Recitative: "O save her then" (0:36) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 42. Aria: "Deeds of kindness to display" (7:00) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 43. Recitative: "The clouds begin to veil" (0:38) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 44. Aria: "Defend her, Heav'n" (5:01) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 45. Recitative: "Or lull'd with grief" (0:34) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 46. Aria: "Sweet rose and lily" (2:32) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 47. Recitative: "O save me, Heav'n" (1:18) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 48. Aria: "the pilgrim's home" (2:43) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 49. Accompagnato: "Forbid it, Heav'n!"/Rec.: "Ah! what is liberty" (1:55) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 50. Duet: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (4:38) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 51. Recitative: "'Tis night" (0:47) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 52. Chorus Of Christians: "He saw the lovely youth" (4:49) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 34a. Recitative: "Oh thou bright sun!" (0:40) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 36a. Sinfony (1:40) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 53. Aria: "Lord, to thee each night and day" (5:12) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 54. Recitative: "But see, the good, the virtuous" (0:37) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 55. Aria: "When sunk in anguish and despair" (3:55) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 56. Chorus Of Christians and Theodora: "Blest be the hand" (3:27) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 57. Recitative: "Undaunted in the court" / Accompagnato: "O my Irene, Heav'n is kind" (1:31) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 58. Duet: "Whither, Princess, do you fly?" (1:15) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 59. Recitative: "She's gone disdaining liberty and life" (0:34) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 60. Aria: "New scenes of joy come crowding on" (4:35) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 61. Recitative: "Is it a Christian virtue then" / "Be that my doom" (1:55) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 62. Aria: "From virtue springs each gen'rous deed" (6:34) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 63. Aria: "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" (1:03) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 64. Recitative: "'Tis kind, my friends" (0:53) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 65. Chorus Of Heathens: "How strange their ends" (3:22) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 66. Recitative: "On me your frowns" (0:32) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 67. Aria: "Ye ministers of justice" (1:09) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 68. Recitative: "And must such beauty suffer" (0:55) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 69. Aria And Duet: "Streams of pleasure ever flowing" / "Thither let our hearts aspire" (6:05) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 70. Recitative: "Ere this their doom is past" (0:21) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 3 - 71. Chorus Of Christians: "O Love divine" (3:02) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 37. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (0:22) -- Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 / Pt. 2 - 38. Aria: "O! that I on wings could rise" (3:13)