Handel / Barockorchester Frankfurt / Wieland Theodora (Oratorio) CD

1. Overture 2. Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: 'Tis Dioclesian's Natal Day (Valens) 3. Act I Scene 1: Air: Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go (Valens) 4. Act I Scene 1: Chorus: And Draw a Blessing Down (Chorus of Heathens) 5. Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Vouchsafe, Dread Sir (Didymus, Valens) 6. Act I Scene 1: Air: Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire (Valens) 7. Act I Scene 1: Chorus: For Ever Thus Stands Fix'd the Doom (Chorus of Heathens) 8. Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: Most Cruel Edict! (Didymus) 9. Act I Scene 2: Air: The Raptur'd Soul (Didymus) 10. Act I Scene 2: Recitativo: I Know Thy Virtues, and Ask Not Thy Faith (Septimius) 11. Act I Scene 2: Air: Descend, Kind Pity (Septimius) 12. Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Though Hard, My Friends (Theodora) 13. Act I Scene 3: Air: Fond Flatt'ring World, Adieu! (Theodora) 14. Act I Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh Bright Example of All Goodness (Irene) 15. Act I Scene 3: Air: Bane of Virtue, Nurse of Passions (Irene) 16. Act I Scene 3: Chorus: Come, Mighty Father, Mighty Lord (Chorus of Christians) 17. Act I Scene 4: Recitativo: Fly, Fly My Brethren (Messenger, Irene) 18. Act I Scene 4: Air: As with Rosy Steps (Irene) 19. Act I Scene 4: Chorus: All Pow'r in Heaven Above, or Earth Beneath (Chorus of Christians) 20. Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Mistaken Wretches, Why Thus Blind to Fate (Septimius) 21. Act I Scene 5: Air: Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly (Septimius) 22. Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Deluded Mortal! (Theodora, Septimius) 23. Act I Scene 5: Accompagnato: Oh Worse Than Death Indeed! (Theodora) 24. Act I Scene 5: Air: Angels, Ever Bright and Fair (Theodora) 25. Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Unhappy, Happy Crew! (Didymus, Irene) 26. Act I Scene 6: Accompagnato and Air: Kind Heaven, If Virtue Be Thy Care (Didymus) 27. Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: Oh Love, How Great Thy Pow'r! (Irene) 28. Act I Scene 6: Chorus: Go, Gen'rous Pious Youth! (Chorus of Christians) 29. Act II Scene 1: Recitativo: Ye Men of Antioch, with Solemn Pomp (Valens) 30. Act II Scene 1: Chorus: Queen of Summer, Queen of Love (Chorus of Heathens) 31. Act II Scene 1: Air: Wide Spread His Name (Valens) 32. Act II Scene 1: Recitativo: Return, Septimius, to the Stubborn Maid (Valens) 33. Act II Scene 1: Chorus: Venus Laughing from the Skies (Chorus of Heathens) 34. Act II Scene 2: Symphony 35. Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: O Thou Bright Sun! How Sweet Thy Rays (Theodora) 36. Act II Scene 2: Air: With Darkness Deep (Theodora) 37. Act II Scene 2: Symphony 38. Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul? (Theodora) 39. Act II Scene 2: Air: Oh That I on Wings Could Rise (Theodora) 40. Act II Scene 3: Recitativo: Long Have I Known Thy Friendly Social Soul (Didymus, Septimius) 41. Act II Scene 3: Air: Though the Honours, That Flora and Venus Receive from the Romans (Septimius) 42. Act II Scene 3: Recitativo: Oh Save Her Then, or Give Me Pow'r (Didymus, Septimius) 43. Act II Scene 3: Air: Deeds of Kindness to Display, Pity Suing (Didymus) 44. Act II Scene 4: Recitativo: The Clouds Begin to Veil the Hemisphere (Irene) 45. Act II Scene 4: Air: Defend Her Heaven! (Irene) 46. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Or Lull'd with Grief or Rapt Her Soul to Heaven (Didymus) 47. Act II Scene 5: Air: Sweet Rose and Lily (Didymus) 48. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Oh Save Me, Heaven (Theodora, Didymus) 49. Act II Scene 5: Air: The Pilgrim's Home (Theodora) 50. Act II Scene 5: Accompagnato: Forbid It, Heaven! (Didymus) 51. Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Or Say, What Right Have I to Take What Just Reflection (Didymus, Theodora) 52. Act II Scene 5: Duet: To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth (Theodora, Didymus) 53. Act II Scene 6: Recitativo: 'Tis Night; But Night's Sweet Blessing (Irene) 54. Act II Scene 6: Chorus: He Saw the Lovely Youth, Death's Early Prey (Chorus of Christians) 55. Act III Scene 1: Air: Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day (Irene) 56. Act III Scene 2: Recitativo: But See, the Good, the Virtuous Didymus (Irene, Theodora) 57. Act III Scene 2: Air: When Sunk in Anguish and Despair (Theodora) 58. Act III Scene 2: Chorus: Blest Be the Hand, and Blest the Pow'r (Theodora, Chorus of Christians) 59. Act III Scene 3: Recitativo and Accompagnato: Undaunted in the Court Stands Didymus (Messenger, Irene, Theodora) 60. Act III Scene 3: Duet: Whither, Princess, Do You Fly? (Irene, Theodora) 61. Act III Scene 3: Recitativo: She's Gone, Disdaining Liberty and Life (Irene) 62. Act III Scene 3: Air: New Scenes of Joy (Irene) 63. Act III Scene 4: Recitativo: Is It a Christian Virtue Then (Valens, Didymus) - Scene 5: Be That My Doom! (Theodora, Septimius) 64. Act III Scene 5: Air: From Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed (Septimius) 65. Act III Scene 5: Air: Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray'r (Valens) 66. Act III Scene 5: Recitativo: 'Tis Kind, My Friends, But Kinder Still (Didymus, Theodora) 67. Act III Scene 5: Chorus: How Strange Their Ends (Chorus of Heathens) 68. Act III Scene 5: Recitativo: On Me Your Frowns Your Utmost Rage Exert (Didymus, Theodora, Valens) 69. Act III Scene 5: Air: Ye Ministers of Justice, Lead Them Hence (Valens) 70. Act III Scene 6: Recitativo: And Must Such Beauty Suffer? (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius) 71. Act III Scene 6: Air and Duet: Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing (Didymus, Theodora) 72. Act III Scene 7: Recitativo: Ere This Their Doom Is Past (Irene) 73. Act III Scene 7: Chorus: Oh Love Devine, Thou Source of Fame (Chorus of Christians)