HANDEL: THEODORA

CHRISTIE, WILLIAM

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Theodora; HVW 68
Ouverture
Trio
Courante
Part 1
Scene 1
Recitative: Tis Diocletian's Natal Day (Valens)
Air: Go, My Faithful Soldier, Go (Valens)
Chorus: And Draw A Blessing Down (Heathens)
Recitative: Vouchsafe, Dread Sir, A Gracious Ear (Didymus, Valens)
Air: Racks, Gibbets, Sword And Fire (Valens)
Chorus: For Ever Thus Stands Fixed The Doom (Heathens)
Scene 2
Recitative: Most Cruel Edict! (Didymus)
Air: The Rapture'd Soul Defies The Sword (Septimius)
Recitative: I Know The Virtues (Septimius)
Air: Descend, Kind Pity, Heav'nly Guest (Septimius)
Scene 3
Recitative: Tho' Hard My Friends (Theodora)
Air: Fond, Flatt'ring World, Adieu! (Theodora)
Recitative: O Bright Example Of All Goodness! (Irene)
Air: Bane Of Virtue (Irene)
Chorus: Come, Mighty Father (Christians)
Scene 4
Recitative: Fly, Fly, My Brethren (Messenger, Irene)
Air: As With Rosy Steps The Morn (Irene)
Chorus: All Pow'r In Heav'n Above (Christians)
Scene 5
Recitativo: Mistaken Wretches! (Septimius)
Air: Dread The Fruits Of Christian Folly (Septimius)
Recitative: Deluded Moral! (Theodora, Spetimius)
Acompagnato: O Worse Than Death Indeed! (Theodora)
Air; Angles, Ever Brith And Fair (Theodora)
Scene 6
Recitative: Unhappy, Happy Crew! (Didymus, Irene)
Air: King Heav'n, If Virtue Be Thy Care (Didymus)
Recitative: O Love, How Great Thy Pow'r! (Irene)
Chorus: Go, Gen'rous Pious Youth
Part 2
Scene 1
Recitative: Ye Men Of Antioch (Valens)
Chorus: Queen Of Summer, Queen Of Love (Heathens)
Air: Wide Spread His Name (Valens)
Recitative: Return, Septimius (Valens)
Chorus: Venus, Laughing From The Skies (Heathens)
Scene 2
Symphony
Recitative: O Thou Bright Sun! (Theodora)
Air: With Darkness Deep As My Woe (Theodora)
Symphony
Recitative: But Why Art Thou Disquieted, My Soul? (Theodora)
Air: Oh, That I On Wings Could Rise (Theodora)
Scene 3
Recitative: Long Have I Known (Didymus, Septimius)
Air: Tho' The Honours That Flora And Venus Receive (Septimius)
Recitative: O Save Her Then (Didymus, Septimius)
Air: Deeds Of Kindness To Display (Didymus)
Scene 4
Recitative: The Clouds Begin To Veil The Hemisphere (Irene)
Air: Defend Her, Heav'n (Irene)
Recitative: Or Lulled With Grief (Didymus)
Air: Sweet Rose And Lily, Flow'ry Form (Didymus)
Recitative: O Save Me Heav'n (Theodora, Didymus)
Air: The Pilgrim's Home, The Sick Man's Health (Theodora)
Acompagnato: Forbid It, Heav'n! (Didymus)
Recitative: Or Say, What Right Have I (Didymus, Theodora)
Duet: To Thee, Thou Glorious Son Of Worth (Theodora, Didymus)
Scene 6
Recitative: 'Tis Night, But Night's Sweet Blessing (Irene)
Chorus: He Saw The Lovely Youth (Christians)
Part 3
Scene 1
Air: Lord, To Thee, Each Night And Day (Irene)
Scene 2
Recitative: But See The Good, The Virtuous Didymus! (Irene, Theodora)
Air: When Sunk In Anguish And Despair (Theodora)
Chorus: Blest Be The Hand (Christians)
Scene 3
Recitiative: Undaunted In The Court (Messenger, Irene)
Accompangato: O My Irene, Heav'n Is Kind (Theodora)
Duet: Whither, Princess, Do You Fly (Irene, Theodora)
Recitative: She's Gone, Disdaining Liberty And Life (Irene)
Air: New Scenes Of Joy Come Crowding On (Irene)
Scene 4
Recitative: Is It A Christian Virtue, Then (Valens, Didymus)
Scene 5
Recitative: Be That My Doom (Theodora, Septimius
Recitative: Be That My Doom (Theodora, Septimius) - Air: From Virtue Springs Each Gen'rous Deed (Septimius)
Air: Cease, Ye Slaves Your Friends (Septimius)
Recitative: 'Tis Kind, My Friends (Didymus, Theodora)
Chorus: How Strange Their Ends (Heathens)
Recitative: On Me Your Frowns (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
Scene 6
Recitative: And Must Such Beauty Suffer! (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
Air: Streams Of Pleasure Ever Flowing (Didymus), Duet: Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire (Theodora, Didymus)
Scene 7
Recitative: Ere This Their Doom Is Past (Irene)
Chorus: O Love Divine, Thou Source Of Fame (Irene, Christians)
4:09

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Erato Disques
Copyright © – Parlophone Records Ltd.
Recorded At – Espace de projection

Credits

Alto Vocals [Choir] – Anne Lelong, Armand Gavrillidès, Dominique Favat, Jean-Paul Bonnevalle, Pierre Kuzor
Baritone Vocals [Messenger] – Laurent Slaars
Baritone Vocals [Valens] – Nathan Berg
Bass Vocals [Choir] – Christophe Olive, David Le Monnier, Fabrice Chomienne, Frits Vanhulle, Jean-François Gay, Laurent Collobert
Bassoon – Claude Wassmer, Rhoda Patrick
Cello – Alix Verzier, Damien Launay, Emmanuel Balssa, Paul Carlioz, Ulrike Brutt
Cello [Continuo] – David Simpson (2)
Chorus Master – François Bazola
Composed By – Handel*
Conductor – William Christie
Countertenor Vocals [Dydimus] – Daniel Taylor (3)
Design – Smith & Gilmour
Double Bass – Michael Greenberg
Double Bass [Continuo] – Jonathan Cable
Engineer [Sound, Editing] – Didier Jean
Ensemble – Les Arts Florissants
Executive-Producer – Arnaud Moral
Flute – Charles Zebley, Serge Saïtta
Harpsichord [Continuo] – Béatrice Martin (2)
Horn – Denis Maton
Libretto By – Thomas Morell
Liner Notes – Anthony Hicks (2)
Liner Notes [French Translation] – Dennis Collins (2), Virginie Bauzou
Liner Notes [German Program Translation] – Anne Steeb
Liner Notes [German Text and Program Translation] – Almut Lenz-Konrad
Liner Notes [German Translation] – Bernd Müller (2)
Management [Project] – Lee Woollard
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Irene] – Juliette Galstain
Oboe – Geoffrey Burgess, Machico Ueno*, Michel Henry, Pier Luigi Fabretti
Painting – Frederick Sandys
Percussion – Marie-Ange Petit
Repetiteur [Choir] – Anne-Catherine Vinay
Repetiteur [Language Coach] – Alan Woodhouse
Soprano Vocals [Choir] – Anne Mopin, Anne Pichard, Cassandra Harvey, Isabelle Sauvageot, Jeanette Wilson-Best, Nicole Dubrovitch, Roselyne Tessier-Lemoine, Sheena Wolstencroft, Sophie Decaudaveine
Soprano Vocals [Theodora] – Sophie Daneman
Tenor Vocals – Michael Loughlin-Smith
Tenor Vocals [Choir] – Bruno Renhold, Jean-Yves Ravoux, Maurizio Rossano, Nicolas Maire
Tenor Vocals [Soloist] – Richard Croft
Theorbo [Continuo] – Elizabeth Kenny
Trumpet – Joël Lahens, René Maze
Typography [Typesetting] – Peter Vogelpoel
Viola – Anne Weber, Galina Zinchenko, Jean-Luc Thonnerieux, Michel Renard
Violin [1] – Catherine Girard, Jean-Paul Burgos, Michèle Sauvé, Mihoko Kimura, Peter Van Boxelaere, Ruth Weber, Simon Heyerick
Violin [2] – George Willms, Guya Martinini, Martha Moore (2), Myriam Gevers, Roberto Crisafulli, Sophie Demoures, Valérie Mascia
Violin, Concertmaster – Hiro Kurosaki

Notes

Recording: IRCAM (Espace de projection), Paris, 12-20 May 2000
Total Time: 178'10

Includes 80 page booklet with notes and sung text in English, German and French
Cover Illustration: Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) "Mary Magdalene" (c. 1859), Delaware Art Museum (AKG Paris)

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