Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Sophie Daneman, Paul Agnew, Alan Ewing, Patricia Petibon, Joseph Cornwell, Sophie Daneman, Richard Croft, Juliette Galstian, Daniel Taylor, Nathan Berg, Laurent Slaars, Eva Mei
Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants, Il Giardino Armonico
Conductor: William Christie, Giovanni Antonini
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 2564695641
Release: 2008
Size: 1.43 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Acis and Galatea, HWV 49
01. Act 1: No. 1, Sinfonia (Presto – Adagio)
02. Act 1: “Oh the pleasure of the plains!” (Chorus)
03. Act 1: “Ye verdant plains and woody mountains” (Galatea)
04. Act 1: “Hush, ye pretty warbling quire” (Galatea)
05. Act 1: “Where shall I seek the charming fair?” (Acis)
06. Act 1: “Stay, shepherd, stay!” (Damon)
07. Act 1: “Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?” (Damon)
08. Act 1: “Lo! Here my love!” (Acis)
09. Act 1: “Love in her eyes sits playing” (Acis)
10. Act 1: “Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love” (Galatea)
11. Act 1: “As when the dove laments her love” (Galatea)
12. Act 1: “Happy we!” (Acis, Galatea)
13. Act 1: No. 9b, Chorus, “Happy we!”
14. Act 2: “Wretched lovers!”
15. Act 2: “I rage, I melt, I burn!” (Polyphemus)
16. Act 2: “O ruddier than the cherry” (Polyphemus)
17. Act 2: “Whither, fairest, art thou running” (Polyphemus, Galatea)
18. Act 2: “Cease to beauty to be suing” (Polyphemus)
19. Act 2: “Would you gain the tender creature” (Damon)
20. Act 2: “His hideous love provokes my rage” (Acis)
21. Act 2: “Love sounds th’alarm” (Acis)
22. Act 2: “Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting’s the pleasure” (Coridon)
23. Act 2: “Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth” (Galatea)
24. Act 2: “The flocks shall leave the mountains” (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)
25. Act 2: “Help, Galatea!” (Acis)
26. Act 2: “Mourn, all ye muses!” (Chorus)
27. Act 2: “Must I my Acis still bemoan” (Galatea, Chorus)
28. Act 2: ” ‘Tis done, thus I exert my pow’r divine” (Galatea)
29. Act 2: “Heart, the seat of soft delight” (Galatea)
30. Act 2: “Galatea, dry thy tears” (Chorus)
Theodora, HWV 68
31. Act 1: Overtura (Maestoso – Allegro)
32. Act 1: Trio (Larghetto e piano)
33. Act 1: Courante
34. Act 1 Scene 1: Recitative, “Tis Diocletian’s natal day” (Valens)
35. Act 1 Scene 1: No. 1a, Aria, “Go, my faithful soldier, go” (Valens)
36. Act 1 Scene 1: No. 2, Chorus, “And draw a blessing down on his imperial crown” (Heathens)
37. Act 1 Scene 1: Recitative, “Vouchsafe, dread Sir, a gracious ear” (Didymus, Valens)
38. Act 1 Scene 1: No. 3, Aria, “Racks, gibbets, sword and fire” (Valens)
39. Act 1 Scene 1: No. 4, Chorus, “For ever thus stands fix’d the doom” (Heathens)
40. Act 1 Scene 2: Recitative, “Most cruel edict!” (Didymus)
41. Act 1 Scene 2: No. 5, Aria, “The raptur’d soul defies the sword” (Didymus)
42. Act 1 Scene 2: Recitative, “I know thy virtues” (Septimius)
43. Act 1 Scene 2: No. 6, Aria, “Descend, kind Pity, heav’nly guest” (Septimius)
44. Act 1 Scene 3: Recitative, “Though hard, my friends” (Theodora)
45. Act 1 Scene 3: No. 7, Aria, “Fond flatt’ring world, adieu!” (Theodora)
46. Act 1 Scene 3: Recitative, “O bright example of all goodness!” (Irene)
47. Act 1 Scene 3: No. 8, Aria, “Bane of virtue, nurse of passions” (Irene)
48. Act 1 Scene 3: No. 9, Chorus, “Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord” (Christians)
49. Act 1 Scene 4: Recitative, “Fly, my brethren!” (Messenger) – Recitative, “Ah! wither should we fly?” (Irene)
50. Act 1 Scene 4: No. 10, Aria, “As with rosy steps the morn advancing” (Irene)
51. Act 1 Scene 4: No. 11, Chorus, “All pow’r heaven above, or earth beneath” (Christians)
52. Act 1 Scene 5: Recitative, “Mistaken wretches! why thus blind to fate” (Septimius)
53. Act 1 Scene 5: No. 12, Aria, “Dread the fruits of Christian folly” (Septimius)
54. Act 1 Scene 5: Recitative, “Deluded mortal! Call it not rebellion” (Theodora, Septimius)
55. Act 1 Scene 5: No. 13, Recitative accompanied, “Oh worse than death indeed!” (Theodora)
56. Act 1 Scene 5: No. 14, Aria, “Angels, ever bright and fair” (Theodora)
57. Act 1 Scene 6: Recitative, “Unhappy, happy crew!” (Didymus, Irene)
58. Act 1 Scene 6: No. 15, Aria, “Kind Heav’n if virtue be thy care” (Didymus)
59. Act 1 Scene 6: Recitative, “O love, how great thy pow’r!” (Irene)
60. Act 1 Scene 6: No. 16, Chorus, “Go, gen’rous pious youth” (Christians)
61. Act 2 Scene 1: Recitative, “Ye men of Antioch” (Valens)
62. Act 2 Scene 1: No. 17, Chorus, “Queen of summer, queen of love” (Heathens)
63. Act 2 Scene 1: No. 18, Aria, “Wide spread his name and make his glory” (Valens)
64. Act 2 Scene 1: Recitative, “Return, Septimius” (Valens)
65. Act 2 Scene 1: No. 19, “Venus laughing from the skies” (Heathens)
66. Act 2 Scene 2: No. 20, Symphony (Largo)
67. Act 2 Scene 2: Recitative, “O thou bright sun!” (Theodora)
68. Act 2 Scene 2: No. 21a, Aria, “With darkness deep, as is my woe” (Theodora)
69. Act 2 Scene 2: No. 21b, Sinfonia (Largo)
70. Act 2 Scene 2: Recitative, “But why art thou disquited, my soul?” (Theodora)
71. Act 2 Scene 2: No. 22, Aria, “Oh that I on wings could rise” (Theodora)
72. Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative, “Long have I known thy friendly social soul” (Didymus, Septimius)
73. Act 2 Scene 3: No. 23, Aria, “Though the honours that Flora and Venus receive” (Septimius)
74. Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative, “Oh save her then or give me pow’r to save” (Didymus, Septimius)
75. Act 2 Scene 3: No. 24, Aria, “Deeds of kindness to display” (Didymus)
76. Act 2 Scene 4: Recitative, “The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere” (Irene)
77. Act 2 Scene 4: No. 25, Aria, “Defend her, Heav’n, let angels spread” (Irene)
78. Act 2 Scene 5: Recitative, “Or lull’d with grief or rapt her soul to Heav’n” (Didymus)
79. Act 2 Scene 5: No. 26, Aria, “Sweet rose and lily, flow’ry form!” (Didymus)
80. Act 2 Scene 5: Recitative, “O save me, Heav’n, in this my perilous hour!” (Theodora, Didymus)
81. Act 2 Scene 5: No. 27, Aria, “The pilgrim’s home, the sick man’s health” (Theodora)
82. Act 2 Scene 5: No. 28, Recitative accompanied, “Forbid it, Heav’n!” (Didymus)
83. Act 2 Scene 5: Recitative, “Or, say, what right have I to take” (Didymus, Theodora)
84. Act 2 Scene 5: No. 29, Duet, “To thee, thou glorious son of worth” (Theodora, Didymus)
85. Act 2 Scene 6: Recitative, “Tis night, but night’s sweet blessing” (Irene)
86. Act 2 Scene 6: No. 30, Chorus, “He saw the lovely thruth” (Christians)
87. Act 3 Scene 1: No. 31, Aria, “Lord, to thee each night and day” (Irene)
88. Act 3 Scene 2: Recitative, “But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus!” (Irene, Theodora)
89. Act 3 Scene 2: No. 32a, Aria, “When sunk in anguish and despair” (Theodora)
90. Act 3 Scene 2: No. 33, Solo and Chorus, “Blest be the hand” (Theodora, Christians)
91. Act 3 Scene 3: Recitative, “Undaunted in the court stands Didymus” (Messenger, Irene)
92. Act 3 Scene 3: No. 34, Recitative accompanied, “Oh my Irene, Heav’n is kind” – Recitative, “Stay me not, my friend” (Theodora)
93. Act 3 Scene 3: No. 35, Duet, “Wither, princess, do you fly?” (Irene, Theodora)
94. Act 3 Scene 3: Recitative, “She’s gone! disdaining liberty” (Irene)
95. Act 3 Scene 3: No. 36, Aria, “New scenes of joy come crowding on” (Irene)
96. Act 3 Scene 4: Recitative, “Is it a Christian virtue” (Valens, Didymus) – Recitative, “Be that my doom!” (Theodora, Septimius)
97. Act 3 Scene 5: No. 37a, Aria, “From virtue springs each gen’rous deed” (Septimius)
98. Act 3 Scene 5: No. 38a, Aria, “Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray’r” (Valens)
99. Act 3 Scene 5: Recitative, “Tis kind, my friends” (Didymus, Theodora)
100. Act 3 Scene 5: No. 39, Chorus, “How strange their ends and yet how glorious!” (Christians)
101. Act 3 Scene 5: Recitative, “On me your frowns” (Didymus, Theodora, Valens) – Recitative, “Ye ministers of justice” (Valens)
102. Act 3 Scene 6: Recitative, “And must such beauty suffer!” (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
103. Act 3 Scene 6: No. 41, Aria and Duet, “Streams of pleasure ever flowing … Thither let our hearts aspire!” (Didymus, Theodora)
104. Act 3 Scene 6: Recitative, “Ere this their doom is past” (Irene)
105. Act 3 Scene 6: No. 42, Chorus, “Oh Love divine, thou source of fame” (Irene, Christians)
Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110
106. “Dunque sarà pur vero”
107. “Orrida, oscura, l’etra si renda”
108. “Ma pria che d’empia morte”
109. “Renda cenere il tiranno”
110. “Sì del gran tiranno”
111. “Come, o Dio! bramo la morte”
112. “Se infelice al mondo vissi”
113. “Trema l’ingrato figlio”
114. “Su lacerate il seno”
115. “Ecco a morte già corro”
Armida abbandonata, HWV 105
116. “Dietro l’orme fugaci”
117. “Ah! crudele e pur ten vai”
118. “Per te mi struggo”
119. “O voi dell’incostante e procelloso”
120. “Venti, fermate”
121. “Ma che parlo, che dico?”
122. “In tanti affanni miei assistimi almen”
La Lucrezia, HWV 145
123. “Oh Numi eterni!”
124. “Gia superbo del moi affanno”
125. “Ma voi forse nel cielo”
126. “Il suol che preme”
127. “Ah! che ancor nell’abisso”
128. “Alla salma in fedel porga la pena”
129. “A voi, padre, consorte”
130. “Gia nel seno comincia”
