Theodora (Oratorio)

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 3
Released: March 27, 2012
Originally Released: 2012
Label: Naxos

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Overture
2.Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: 'Tis Dioclesian's natal day (Valens)
3.Act I Scene 1: Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go (Valens)
4.Act I Scene 1: Chorus: and draw a blessing down (Chorus of Heathens)
5.Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Vouchsafe, dread Sir (Didymus, Valens)
6.Act I Scene 1: Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire (Valens)
7.Act I Scene 1: Chorus: For ever thus stands fix'd the doom (Chorus of Heathens)
8.Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: Most cruel edict! (Didymus)
9.Act I Scene 2: Air: The raptur'd soul (Didymus)
10.Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: I know thy virtues, and ask not thy faith (Septimius)
11.Act I Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Septimius)
12.Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Though hard, my friends (Theodora)
13.Act I Scene 3: Air: Fond flatt'ring world, adieu! (Theodora)
14.Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh bright example of all goodness (Irene)
15.Act I Scene 3: Air: Bane of virtue, nurse of passions (Irene)
16.Act I Scene 3: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord (Chorus of Christians)
17.Act I Scene 4: Recitativo: Fly, fly my brethren (Messenger, Irene)
18.Act I Scene 4: Air: As With Rosy Steps (Irene)
19.Act I Scene 4: Chorus: All pow'r in Heaven above, or earth beneath (Chorus of Christians)
20.Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Mistaken wretches, why thus blind to fate (Septimius)
21.Act I Scene 5: Air: Dread the fruits of Christian folly (Septimius)
22.Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Deluded mortal! (Theodora, Septimius)
23.Act I Scene 5: Accompagnato: Oh worse than death indeed! (Theodora)
24.Act I Scene 5: Air: Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora)
25.Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Unhappy, happy crew! (Didymus, Irene)
26.Act I Scene 6: Accompagnato and Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be thy care (Didymus)
27.Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Oh Love, how great thy pow'r! (Irene)
28.Act I Scene 6: Chorus: Go, gen'rous pious youth! (Chorus of Christians)

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Act Ii Scene 1: Recitativo: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp (Valens)
2.Act Ii Scene 1: Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love (Chorus of Heathens)
3.Act Ii Scene 1: Air: Wide spread his Name (Valens)
4.Act Ii Scene 1: Recitativo: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid (Valens)
5.Act Ii Scene 1: Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies (Chorus of Heathens)
6.Act Ii Scene 2: Symphony
7.Act Ii Scene 2: Recitativo: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays (Theodora)
8.Act Ii Scene 2: Air: With darkness deep (Theodora)
9.Act Ii Scene 2: Symphony
10.Act Ii Scene 2: Recitativo: But why art thou disquieted, my soul? (Theodora)
11.Act Ii Scene 2: Air: Oh that I on wings could rise (Theodora)
12.Act Ii Scene 3: Recitativo: Long have I known thy friendly social soul (Didymus, Septimius)
13.Act Ii Scene 3: Air: Though the honours, that Flora and Venus receive from the Romans (Septimius)
14.Act Ii Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh save her then, or give me pow'r (Didymus, Septimius)
15.Act Ii Scene 3: Air: Deeds of kindness to display, pity suing (Didymus)
16.Act Ii Scene 4: Recitativo: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere (Irene)
17.Act Ii Scene 4: Air: Defend her Heaven! (Irene)
18.Act Ii Scene 5: Recitativo: Or lull'd with grief or rapt her soul to heaven (Didymus)
19.Act Ii Scene 5: Air: Sweet Rose and Lily (Didymus)
20.Act Ii Scene 5: Recitativo: Oh save me, Heaven (Theodora, Didymus)
21.Act Ii Scene 5: Air: The pilgrim's home (Theodora)
22.Act Ii Scene 5: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven! (Didymus)
23.Act Ii Scene 5: Recitativo: Or say, what right have I to take what just reflection (Didymus, Theodora)
24.Act Ii Scene 5: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of worth (Theodora, Didymus)
25.Act Ii Scene 6: Recitativo: 'Tis night; but night's sweet blessing (Irene)
26.Act Ii Scene 6: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, death's early prey (Chorus of Christians)

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Act Iii Scene 1: Air: Lord, to Thee each night and day (Irene)
2.Act Iii Scene 2: Recitativo: But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus (Irene, Theodora)
3.Act Iii Scene 2: Air: When sunk in anguish and despair (Theodora)
4.Act Iii Scene 2: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the pow'r (Theodora, Chorus of Christians)
5.Act Iii Scene 3: Recitativo and Accompagnato: Undaunted in the court stands Didymus (Messenger, Irene, Theodora)
6.Act Iii Scene 3: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly? (Irene, Theodora)
7.Act Iii Scene 3: Recitativo: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life (Irene)
8.Act Iii Scene 3: Air: New scenes of joy (Irene)
9.Act Iii Scene 4: Recitativo: Is it a Christian virtue then (Valens, Didymus) - Scene 5: Be that my doom! (Theodora, Septimius)
10.Act Iii Scene 5: Air: From virtue springs each gen'rous deed (Septimius)
11.Act Iii Scene 5: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r (Valens)
12.Act Iii Scene 5: Recitativo: 'Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still (Didymus, Theodora)
13.Act Iii Scene 5: Chorus: How strange their ends (Chorus of Heathens)
14.Act Iii Scene 5: Recitativo: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
15.Act Iii Scene 5: Air: Ye ministers of justice, lead them hence (Valens)
16.Act Iii Scene 6: Recitativo: and must such beauty suffer? (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
17.Act Iii Scene 6: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing (Didymus, Theodora)
18.Act Iii Scene 7: Recitativo: Ere this their doom is past (Irene)
19.Act Iii Scene 7: Chorus: Oh love devine, thou source of fame (Chorus of Christians)

Product Description:

Set in a time of ancient Rome' persecution of the Christians, Handel' late masterpiece Theodora tells of the tragic martyrdom of the heroine and her lover Didymus.