Handel: Theodora

True cast of stars for this recording of Handel's masterpiece Theodora: Lisette Oropesa in the title role; Joyce DiDonato as Irene; Michael Spyres as Septimius; John Chest as Valens; Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian as Didymus with Il Pomo d'Oro orchestra and choir and conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev.

Disc 1
1: Ouverture
2: Trio
3: Courante
4: Tis Diocletian's Natal Day
5: Go, My Faithful Solider, Go
6: And Draw a Blessing Down
7: Vouchsafe, Dread Sir
8: Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire
9: For Ever Thus Stands Fix'd the Doom
10: Most Cruel Edict
11: The Raptur'd Soul
12: I Know Thy Virtues
13: Descend, Kind Pity, Heav'nly Guest
14: Though Hard, My Friends
15: Fond, Flatt'ring World, Adieu
16: O Bright Example of All Goodness
17: Bane of Virtue
18: Come, Mighty Father
19: Fly, Fly, My Brethren
20: As With Rosy Steps the Morn
21: All Pow'r in Heav'n Above
22: Mistaken Wretches!
23: Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly
24: Deluded Mortal!
25: Oh, Worse Than Death Indeed
26: Angels, Ever Bright and Fair
27: Unhappy, Happy Crew!
28: Kind Heav'n, If Virtue Be Thy
29: O Love, How Great Thy Pow'r
30: Go, Gen'rous, Pious Youth

Disc 2
1: Ye Men of Antioch
2: Queen of Summer, Queen of Love
3: Wide Spread His Name
4: Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid
5: Venus, Laughing from the Skies
6: Symphony
7: O Thou Bright Sun
8: With Darkness Deep, As Is My Woe
9: Air
10: But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul
11: Oh That I On Wings Could Rise
12: Long Have I Known
13: Though the Honours
14: Oh, Save Her Then
15: Deeds of Kindness to Display
16: The Clouds Begin to Veil
17: Defend Her, Heav'n!
18: Or Lull'd With Grief
19: Sweet Rose and Lily
20: Oh, Save Me, Heav'n
21: The Pilgrim's Home
22: Forbid It, Heav'n!
23: Or Say, What Right Have I to Take
24: To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth
25: 'Tis Night
26: He Saw the Lovely Youth

Disc 3
1: Lord, to Thee, Each Night and Day
2: But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus
3: When Sunk in Anguish and Despair
4: Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow'r
5: Undaunted in the Court
6: O My Irene
7: Stay Me Not, Dear Friend
8: Whither, Princess, Do You Fly
9: She's Gone
10: New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding On
11: And Is It a Christian Virtue
12: Be That My Doom
13: From Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed
14: Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray'r
15: 'Tis Kind, My Friends
16: How Strange Their Ends, Yet How Glorious
17: On Me Your Frowns
18: Ye Ministers of Justice
19: And Must Such Beauty Suffer?
20: Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing
21: Ere This, Their Doom Is Past
22: O Love Divine

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev

Number of Discs: 3

Orchestra: Il Pomo d'Oro

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