Theodora - full audio
Theodora (Handel), 1996 - audio
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3h 20m
Part I
1 Overture
Scene 1
2 Recitative: “’Tis Dioclesian’s natal day” 00.06.27
3 Air: “Go, my faithful soldier, go” 00.07.19
4 Chorus: “And draw a blessing down” 00.09.09
5 Recitative: “Vouchsafe, dread Sir” 00.11.12
6 Air: “Racks, gibbets, sword or fire” 00.12.05
7 Chorus: “Forever thus stands fix’d” 00.16.30
Scene 2
8 Recitative: “Most cruel edict” 00.18.12
9 Air: “The raptur’d soul” 00.18.54
10 Recitative: “I know thy virtues” 00.27.55
11 Air: “Descend, kind pity” 00.28.38
Scene 3
12 Recitative: “Tho’ hard, my friends” 00.36.08
13 Air: “Fond, flatt’ring world, adieu” 00.36.34
14 Recitative: “O bright example” 00.41.44
15 Air: “Bane of virtue” 00.42.12
16 Chorus: “Come, mighty Father” 00.48.36
Scene 4
17 Recitative: “Fly, fly, my brethren” 00.51.58
18 Air: “As with rosy steps the morn” 00.52.49
19 Chorus: “All pow’r in Heav'n” 01.00.24
Scene 5
20 Recitative: “Mistaken wretches” 01.02.49
21 Air: “Dread the fruits of Christian folly” 01.03.07
22 Recitative: “Deluded mortals” 01.05.59
23 Recitative: “O worse than death indeed” 01.07.05
24 Air: “Angels, ever bright and fair” 01.07.38
Scene 6
25 Recitative: “Unhappy, happy crew” 01.11.47
26 “Kind Heav’n, if virtue be thy care” 01.12.37
Scene 7
27 Recitative: “O love, how great thy pow’r” 01.18.31
28 Chorus: “Go, generous pious youth” 01.18.52
Part II
Scene 1
29 Recitative: “Ye men of Antioch” 01.25.20
30 Chorus: “Queen of Summer” 01.26.01
31 Air: “Wide spread his name” 01.26.52
32 Recitative: “Return, Septimius” 01.29.29
33 Chorus: “Venus laughing from the skies 01.29.58
34 Symphony 01.31.25
Scene 2
35 Recitative: “Oh thou bright Sun” 01.32.43
36 Air: “With darkness deep” 01.33.24
37 Symphony 01.37.21
38 Recitative: “But why art thou disquieted” 01.39.29
39 Air: “Oh, that I on wings could rise” 01.40.02
Scene 3
40 Recitative: “Long have I known” 01.43.56
41 Air: “Tho’ the honours that Flora” 01.44.35
42 Recitative: “O, save her then” 01.47.51
43 Air: “Deeds of kindness to display” 01.48.31
Scene 4
44 Recitative: “The clouds begin to veil” 01.55.41
45 Air: “Defend her Heav’n” 01.56.25
Scene 5
46 Recitative: “Or lull’d with grief” 02.01.55
47 Air: “Sweet rose and lily” 02.02.20
48 Recitative: “O, save me, Heav’n” 02.05.21
49 Air: “The pilgrim’s home” 02.06.22
50 Recitative: “Forbid it, Heav’n!” 02.10.11
51 Recitative: “Ah, what is liberty” 02.10.45
52 Duet “To thee, thou glorious son of worth” 02.12.05
Scene 6
53 Recitative: “ ‘Tis night” 02.16.43
54 Chorus: “He saw the lovely youth” 02.17.27
Part III
Scene 1
55 Air: “Lord, to thee each night and day” 02.23.20
Scene 2
56 Recitative: “But see, the good, the virtuous” 02.29.16
57 Air: “When sunk in anguish and despair” 02.29.56
58 Recitative: “Blessed be the pow’r” 02.35.38
59 Chorus: “Blessing, honour, adoration”, “Blest be the hand” 02.36.14
Scene 3
60 Recitative: “Undaunted in the court” 02.40.20
61 Recitative: “O my Irene, Heav’n is kind” 02.41.20
62 Duet “Whither, Princess, do you fly” 02.42.06
63 Recitative: “She’s gone, disdaining liberty and life” 00.43.26
64 Air: “New scenes of joy come crowding on” 02.44.18
Scene 4
65 Recitative: “Is it a Christian virtue then” 02.49.05
Scene 5
66 Recitative: ”Be that my doom” 02.49.44
67 Air: “From virtue springs each gen’rous deed” 02.50.26
68 Air: “Cease ye slaves, your fruitless pray’r” 02.57.29
69 Recitative: “’Tis kind, my friends” 02.58.40
70 Air: “Lost in anguish” 02.59.30
71 Chorus: “How strange their ends” 03.02.35
72 Recitative: “On me your frowns” 03.06.19
73 Air: “Ye ministers of justice” 03.07.06
Scene 6
74 Recitative: “And must such beauty suffer” 03.08.21
75 Air and Duet “Streams of pleasure ever flowing”, “Thither let our hearts aspire” 03.09.27
Scene 7
76 Recitative: “Ere this, their doom is past” 03.15.55
77 Chorus: “O, love divine” 03.16.24