Paul McCreesh - Handel: Theodora & Solomon

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68: No. 1, Overture: a. Grave- Allegro

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68: No. 1, Overture: b. Trio

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68: No. 1, Overture: c. Courante

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 2, Recit. 'Tis Dioclesian's Natal Day (Alternative Scene)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 3, Aria. Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 4, Chorus of Heathens. And Draw a Blessing Down

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 5, Recit. Vouchsafe, Dread Sir

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 6. Aria. Racks, Gibbets, Sword and Fire

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 7, Chorus of Heathens. For Ever Thus Stand Fix'd

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Most Cruel Edict

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 9, Aria. The Raptur'd Soul (Didymus)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 10, Recit. I Know Thy Virtues

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 11, Aria. Descend, Kind Pity

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 12, Recit. Though Hard, My Friends

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 13, Aria. Fond, Flatt'ring World, Adieu

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Oh Bright Example

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 15, Aria. Bane of Virtue

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 16, Chorus of Christians. Come, Mighty Father

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 17, Recit. Fly, Fly, My Brethren

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 18, Aria. As With Rosy Steps the Morn

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 19, Chorus. All Pow'r In Heav'n

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Mistaken Wretches!

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 21, Aria. Dread the Fruits of Christian Folly

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Deluded Mortal – Accompagnato. O Worse Than Death Indeed

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 23, Aria. Angels, Ever Bright and Fair

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 24, Recit. Unhappy, Happy Crew!

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 25, Air. Kind Heaven, If Virtue Be Thy Care

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 26, Recit. Oh Love! How Great Thy Pow'r

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act I: No. 27, Chorus. Go, Gen'rous Pious Youth

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 28, Recit. Ye Men of Antioch

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 29, Chorus of Heathens. Queen of Summer

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 30, Aria. Wide Spread His Name

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 31, Recit. Return, Septimius

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 32, Chorus of Heathens. Venus Laughing from the Skies

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 33, Sinfony

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 34, Recit. Oh Thous Bright Sun!

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 35, Aria. With Darkness Deep

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 36, Sinfony

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 37, Recit. But Why Art Thou Disquieted?

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 38, Aria. O! That I On Wings Could Rise

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 39, Recit. Long Have I Known

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 40, Aria. Though the Honours, That Flora

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 41, Recit. O Save Her Then

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 42, Aria. Deeds of Kindness to Display

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 43, Recit. the Clouds Begin to Veil

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 44, Aria. Defend Her, Heav'n

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 45, Recit. Or Lull'd With Grief

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 46, Aria. Sweet Rose and Lily

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 47, Recit. O Save Me, Heav'n

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 48, Aria. The Pilgrim's Home

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 49, Accompagnato. Forbid It, Heav'n! – Recit. Ah! What Is Liberty

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 50, Duet. To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 51, Recit. 'Tis Night

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 52, Chorus of Christians. He Saw the Lovely Youth

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 34a, Recit. Oh Thou Bright Sun! (Alternative Ending)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act II: No. 36a, Sinfony (Alternative Version)

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 53, Aria. Lord, to Thee Each Night and Day

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 54, Recit. But See, the Good, the Virtuous

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 55, Aria. When Sunk In Anguish and Despair

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 56, Chorus of Christians and Theodora. Blest Be the Hand

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 57, Recit. Undaunted in the Court / Accompagnato. O My Irene, Heav'n Is Kind

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 58, Duet. Whither, Princess, Do You Fly?

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 59, Recit. She's Gone Disdaining Liberty and Life

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 60, Aria. New Scenes of Joy Come Crowding On

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 61, Recit. Is It a Christian Virtue Then / Be That My Doom

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 62, Aria. from Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 63, Aria. Cease, Ye Slaves, Your Fruitless Pray'r

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 64, Recit. 'Tis Kind, My Friends

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 65, Chorus of Heathens. How Strange Their Ends

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 66, Recit. On Me Your Frowns

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 67, Aria. Ye Ministers of Justice

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 68, Recit. and Must Such Beauty Suffer

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 69, Aria & Duet. Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing / Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 70, Recit. Ere This Their Doom Is Past

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act III: No. 71, Chorus of Christians. O Love Divine

Handel: Solomon HWV 67: Overture

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Your harps and cymbals"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Praise ye the Lord"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "With pious heart"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Almighty Power"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Imperial Salomon"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Sacred raptures"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Throughout the land"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd be the Lord"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "What tho' I trace"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "And see my Queen"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd the day"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Thou fair inhabitant of Nile"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Welcome as the dawn of day"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Vain are the transient beauties"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Indulge thy faith"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "My blooming fair"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Haste to the cedar grove"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "When thou art absent"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "With thee th'unshelter'd moor"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Search round the world"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "May no rash intruder"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the censer"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Prais'd be the Lord"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "When the sun o'er yonder hills"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Great prince"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "My sovereign liege"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Words are weak"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "What says the other"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thy sentence, great king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Withhold, withhold the executing hand!"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Can I see my infant gor'd"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Israel' attend"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thrice bless'd be the king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the east unto the west"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From morn to eve"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "See the tall palm"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "No more shall armed bands"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Beneath the vine"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Swell, swell the full chorus"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: Sinfony

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "From Arabia's spicy shores"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Ev'ry sight these eyes behold"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Sweep, sweep the string"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Music, spread thy voice around"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Now a diff'rent measure" - "Shake the dome"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Then at once from rage remove"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Draw the tear from hopeless love"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Next the tortur'd soul release"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thus rolling surge rise"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thy harmony's divine"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Pious king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thrice happy king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Golden columns"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Praise the Lord"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Gold now is common"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "How green our fertile pastures look!"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "May peace in Salem"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Will the sun forget to streak"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Adieu, fair queen"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "The name of the wicked"