Composer: Georg Friedrich Handel
Performer: Andrew Collis, Cantillation, Christopher Lowrey, Ed Lyon, Valda Wilson, Caitlin Hulcup, Andrei Laptev
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Antipodes
Conductor: Erin Helyard
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pinchgut
Catalogue: PG009
Release: 2018
Size: 813 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Theodora, HWV 68
CD 01
Overture
01. Maestoso
02. Allegro
03. Trio
04. Courante
Act I
05. Scene 1: Recitative: ‘Tis Dioclesian’s natal day (Valens)
06. Scene 1: Aria: Go, my faithful soldier, go (Valens)
07. Scene 1: And draw a blessing down (Chorus of Heathens)
08. Scene 1: Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread Sir (Didymus, Valens)
09. Scene 1: Aria: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire (Valens)
10. Scene 1: For ever thus stands fix’d the doom (Chorus of Heathens)
11. Scene 2: Recitative: Most cruel edict! (Didymus)
12. Scene 2: Aria: The raptur’d soul (Didymus)
13. Scene 2: Recitative: I know thy virtues, and ask not thy faith (Septimius)
14. Scene 2: Aria: Descend, kind Pity (Septimius)
15. Scene 3: Recitative: Though hard, my friends (Theodora)
16. Scene 3: Aria: Fond flatt’ring world, adieu! (Theodora)
17. Scene 3: Recitative: Oh bright example of all goodness (Irene)
18. Scene 3: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord (Chorus of Christians)
19. Scene 4: Recitative: Fly, fly my brethren (Messenger, Irene)
20. Scene 4: Aria: As With Rosy Steps (Irene)
21. Scene 4: All pow’r in Heaven above, or earth beneath (Chorus of Christians)
22. Scene 5: Recitative: Mistaken wretches, why thus blind to fate (Septimius)
23. Scene 5: Aria: Dread the fruits of Christian folly (Septimius)
24. Scene 5: Recitative: Deluded mortal! (Theodora, Septimius)
25. Scene 5: Oh worse than death indeed! (Theodora)
26. Scene 5: Aria: Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora)
27. Scene 6: Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! (Didymus, Irene)
28. Scene 6: Aria: Kind Heaven, if virtue be thy care (Didymus)
29. Scene 7: Recitative: Oh Love, how great thy pow’r! (Irene)
30. Scene 7: Go, gen’rous pious youth! (Chorus of Christians)
CD 02
Act II
01. Scene 1: Recitative: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp (Valens)
02. Scene 1: Queen of summer, queen of love (Chorus of Heathens)
03. Scene 1: Aria: Wide spread his Name (Valens)
04. Scene 1: Recitative: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid (Valens)
05. Scene 1: Venus laughing from the skies (Chorus of Heathens)
06. Scene 2: Largo
07. Scene 2: Recitative: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays (Theodora)
08. Scene 2: Aria: With darkness deep (Theodora)
09. Scene 2: Largo II
10. Scene 2: Recitative: But why art thou disquieted, my soul? (Theodora)
11. Scene 2: Aria: Oh that I on wings could rise (Theodora)
12. Scene 3: Recitative: Long have I known thy friendly social soul (Didymus, Septimius)
13. Scene 3: Aria: Though the honours, that Flora and Venus receive from the Romans (Septimius)
14. Scene 3: Recitative: O save her, then, or give me power to save (Didimus, Septimius)
15. Scene 3: Aria: Deeds of kindness to display, pity suing (Didymus)
16. Scene 4: Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere (Irene)
17. Scene 4: Aria: Defend her Heaven! (Irene)
18. Scene 5: Recitative: Or lull’d with grief or rapt her soul to heaven (Didymus)
19. Scene 5: Aria: Sweet Rose and Lily (Didymus)
20. Scene 5: Recitative: Oh save me, Heaven (Theodora, Didymus)
21. Scene 5: Aria: The pilgrim’s home (Theodora)
22. Scene 5: Forbid it, Heaven! (Didymus, Theodora)
23. Scene 5: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of worth (Theodora, Didymus)
24. Scene 6: Recitative: ‘Tis night; but night’s sweet blessing (Irene)
25. Scene 6: He saw the lovely youth, death’s early prey (Chorus of Christians)
CD 03
Act III
01. Scene 1: Aria: Lord, to Thee each night and day (Irene)
02. Scene 2: Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus (Irene, Theodora)
03. Scene 2: Blest be the hand, and blest the pow’r (Theodora, Chorus of Christians)
04. Scene 3: Recitative: Undaunted in the court stands Didymus (Messenger, Irene, Theodora)
05. Scene 4: Recitative: Is it a Christian virtue then (Valens, Didymus) – Scene 5: Be that my doom! (Theodora, Septimius)
06. Scene 5: Aria: From virtue springs each gen’rous deed (Septimius)
07. Scene 5: Aria: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray’r (Valens)
08. Scene 5: Recitative: ‘Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still (Didymus, Theodora)
09. Scene 5: How strange their ends (Chorus of Heathens)
10. Scene 5: Recitative: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
11. Scene 6: Recitative: And must such beauty suffer? (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
12. Scene 6: Aria: Streams of pleasure (Didymus) – Duet: Thither let our hearts aspire (Theodora, Didymus)
13. Scene 7: Recitative: Ere this their doom is past (Irene)
14. Scene 7: O love divine, thou source of fame (Chorus of Christians)