OROPESA LISETTE – HANDEL THEODORA CD3

Disc 1
1 Ouvertüre
2 Trio
3 Courante
4 Rezitativ: ‘Tis Diocletian’s natal day
5 Arie: Go, my faithful soldier, go
6 Chor: And draw a blessing down
7 Rezitativ: Vouchsafe, dread Sir
8 Arie: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire
9 Chor: For ever thus stands fixed the doom
10 Rezitativ: Most cruel edict!
11 Arie: The raptured soul
12 Rezitativ: I know thy virtues
13 Arie: Descend, kind pity, heav’nly guest
14 Rezitativ: Tho’ hard, my friends
15 Arie: Fond, flatt’ring world, adieu!
16 Rezitativ: O bright example of all goodness!
17 Arie: Bane of virtue
18 Chor: Come, mighty Father
19 Rezitativ: Fly, fly, my brethren
20 Arie: As with rosy steps the morn
21 Chor: All pow’r in Heav’n abouve
22 Rezitativ: Mistaken wretches!
23 Arie: Dread the fruits of Christian folly
24 Rezitativ: Deluded mortal!
25 Accompagnato: O, worse than death indeed!
26 Arie: Angels, ever bright and fair
27 Rezitativ: Unhappy, happy crew!
28 Arie: Kind Heav’n, if virtue be thy care
29 Rezitativ: O love, how great thy pow’r!
30 Chor: Go, gen’rous, pious youth
Disc 2
1 Rezitativ: Ye men of Antioch
2 Chor: Queen of summer, queen of love
3 Arie: Wide spread his name
4 Rezitativ: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid
5 Chor: Venus, laughing from the skies
6 Sinfonia
7 Rezitativ: O thou bright sun!
8 Arie: With darkness deep as is my woe
9 Sinfonia
10 Rezitativ: But why art thou disquieted, my soul!
11 Arie: Oh, that I on wings could rise
12 Rezitativ: Long have I known
13 Arie: Tho’ the honours
14 Rezitativ: Oh, save her then
15 Arie: Deeds of kindness to display
16 Rezitativ: The clouds begin to veil
17 Arie: Defend her, Heav’n
18 Rezitativ: Or lulled with grief
19 Arie: Sweet rose and lily
20 Rezitativ: Oh, save me, Heav’n
21 Arie: The pilgrim’s home
22 Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heav’n!
23 Rezitativ: Or say, what right have I to take
24 Duett: To thee, thou glorious son of worth
25 Rezitativ: ‘Tis night
26 Chor: He saw the lovely youth
Disc 3
1 Arie: Lord, to thee each night and day
2 Rezitativ: But see the good, the virtous Didymus!
3 Arie: When sunk in anguish and despair
4 Theodora und Chor: Blest be the hand, and blest the pow’r
5 Rezitativ: Undaunted in the Court
6 Accompagnato: O my Irene
7 Rezitativ: Stay me not, dear friend
8 Duett: Whither, Princess, do you fly
9 Rezitativ: She’s gone
10 Arie: New scenes of joy come crowding on
11 Rezitativ: Is it a Christian virtue
12 Rezitativ: Be that my doom
13 Arie: From Virtue springs each gen’rous deed
14 Arie: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray’r
15 Rezitativ: ‘Tis kind, my friends
16 Chor: How strange their ends and yet how glorious
17 Rezitativ: On me your frowns
18 Arie: Ye ministers of justice
19 Rezitativ: And must such beauty suffer!
20 Arie und Duett: Streams of pleasure ever flowing
21 Rezitativ: Ere this, their doom is past
22 Chor: O love divine