Theodora

Album by George Frideric Handel & Les Arts Florissants & William Christie

Theodora is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1750. The work blends Baroque choral writing, operatic arias and expressive recitatives within a dramatic sacred narrative, reflecting Handel's late compositional style and occupying a distinctive place among his large-scale oratorios.
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Disc 1

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

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Ye Men of Antioch"
    0:36
  2. 3.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Queen of Summer, Queen of Love"
    0:50
  3. 4.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Wide Spread His Name"
    2:14
  4. 5.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Return, Septimus"
    0:37
  5. 6.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 1: "Venus, Laughing From the Skies"
    1:18
  6. 7.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: Symphony [I]
    1:06
  7. 8.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "O Thou Bright Sun!"
    0:33
  8. 9.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "With Darkness Deep as is My Woe"
    3:56
  9. 10.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: Symphony [II]
    1:48
  10. 11.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul?"
    0:29
  11. 12.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 2: "Oh, That I on Wings Could Rise"
    3:40
  12. 13.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Long Have I Known"
    1:07
  13. 14.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Tho' the Honours That Flora and Venus Receive"
    3:02
  14. 15.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "O Save Her Then"
    0:36
  15. 16.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 3: "Deeds of Kindness to Display"
    6:34
  16. 17.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 4: "The Clouds Begin to Veil the Hemisphere"
    0:38
  17. 18.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 4: "Defend Her, Heav'n"
    4:35
  18. 19.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Or Lulled With Grief"
    0:34
  19. 20.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Sweet Rose and Lily, Flow'ry Form"
    2:43
  20. 21.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "O Save Me, Heav'n"
    1:26
  21. 22.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "The Pilgrim's Home, the Sick Man's Health"
    3:19
  22. 23.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Forbid it, Heav'n!"
    0:31
  23. 24.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "Or Say, What Right Have I"
    1:33
  24. 25.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 5: "To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth"
    4:34
  25. 26.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 6: "'Tis Night, But Night's Sweet Blessing"
    0:44
  26. 27.
    Theodora, Part II Scene 6: "He Saw the Lovely Youth"
    5:15

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 1: "Lord, to Thee, Each Night and Day"
    4:20
  2. 4.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "But See the Good, the Virtuous Didymus!"
    0:36
  3. 5.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "When Sunk in Anguish and Despair"
    4:29
  4. 6.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 2: "Blest Be the Hand"
    3:26
  5. 7.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "Undaunted in the Court"
    0:45
  6. 8.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "O My Irene, Heav'n Is Kind"
    0:34
  7. 9.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "Whither, Princess, Do You Fly"
    1:17
  8. 10.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "She's Gone, Disdaining Liberty and Life"
    0:30
  9. 11.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 3: "New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding On"
    3:29
  10. 12.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 4-5: "Is it a Christian Virtue, Then" / "Be That My Doom"
    1:53
  11. 13.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "From Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed"
    7:05
  12. 14.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray'r"
    1:04
  13. 15.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "'Tis Kind, My Friends"
    0:55
  14. 16.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "How Strange Their Ends"
    4:24
  15. 17.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 5: "On Me Your Frowns"
    0:42
  16. 18.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 6: "And Must Such Beauty Suffer!"
    0:39
  17. 19.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 6: "Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing" / "Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire"
    5:20
  18. 20.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 7: "Ere This Their Doom Is Past"
    0:25
  19. 21.
    Theodora, Part III Scene 7: "O Love Divine, Thou Source of Fame"
    4:09

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