Sophie Daneman is the Christian martyr, bringing innocence and radiant resolve to the role… Christie's management of the sequence of symphonies and arias in Act II, scene 2 is masterly as Theodora...

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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

Sophie Daneman, Daniel Taylor, Nathan Berg

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

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Sophie Daneman is the Christian martyr, bringing innocence and radiant resolve to the role… Christie's management of the sequence of symphonies and arias in Act II, scene 2 is masterly as Theodora...

BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 20094 out of 5 stars

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Label: Warner Classics
Catalogue number: 0927431812
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Genre:
- Oratorios & Passions

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

Work length2:57:28

Juliette Galstain (mezzo-soprano), Les Arts Florissants (vocal & instrumental ensemble), Richard Croft (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Laurent Slaars (baritone), Nathan Berg (baritone), François Bazola (director), Jonathan Cable (double bass), Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo), Béatrice Martin (harpsichord), David Simpson (cello), Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie

Overture to Part I - Allegro

Track length3:04

Overture to Part I - Trio

Track length1:33

Overture to Part I - Courante

Track length1:39

Part I "'Tis Diocletian's natal day" [Valens]

Track length0:32

Part I "Go, my faithful soldier, go" [Valens]

Track length1:46

Part I "And draw a blessing down" [Chorus]

Track length2:05

Part I "Vouchsafe, dread Sir, a gracious ear" [Didymus, Valens]

Track length0:55

Part I "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" [Valens]

Track length3:35

Part I "For ever thus stands fixed the doom" [Chorus]

Track length1:33

Part I "Most cruel edict!" [Didymus]

Track length0:30

Part I "The raptur'd soul defies the sword" [Didymus]

Track length8:27

Part I "I know thy virtues" [Septimius]

Track length0:41

Part I "Desend, kind pity, heav'nly guest" [Septimius]

Track length6:17

Part I "Tho' hard, my friends" [Theodora]

Track length0:27

Part I "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!" [Theodora]

Track length4:40

Part I "O bright example of all goodness!" [Irene]

Track length0:28

Part I "Bane of virtue" [Irene]

Track length5:25

Part I "Come, mighty Father" [Chorus]

Track length3:41

Part I "Fly, fly, my brethren" [Messenger] "Ah! whither should we fly?" [Irene]

Track length0:59

Part I "As with rosy steps the morn" [Irene]

Track length5:57

Part I "All pow'r in Heav'n above" [Chorus]

Track length2:18

Part I "Mistaken wretches!" [Septimius]

Track length0:19

Part I "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" [Septimius]

Track length2:39

Part I "Deluded mortal!" [Theodora, Septimius]

Track length1:01

Part I "Oh worse than death indeed!" [Theodora]

Track length0:26

Part I "Angels, ever bright and fair" [Theodora]

Track length3:20

Part I "Unhappy, happy crew!" [Didymus, Irene]

Track length1:09

Part I "Kind Heav'n, if virtue be thy care" [Didymus]

Track length5:27

Part I "O love, how great thy pow'r!" [Irene]

Track length0:23

Part I "Go gen'rous, pious youth" [Chorus]

Track length5:52

Part II "Ye men of Antioch" [Valens]

Track length0:36

Part II "Queen of summer, queen of love" [Chorus]

Track length0:50

Part II "Wide spread his name" [Valens]

Track length2:14

Part II "Return, Septimius" [Valens]

Track length0:37

Part II "Venus, laughing from the skies" [Chorus]

Track length1:18

Part II Symphony

Track length1:06

Part II "O thou bright sun!" [Theodora]

Track length0:33

Part II "With Darkness deep as is my woe" [Theodora]

Track length3:56

Part II Sinfonia

Track length1:48

Part II "But why art thou disquieted, my soul?" [Theodora]

Track length0:29

Part II "Oh, that I on wings could rise" [Theodora]

Track length3:40

Part II "Long have I known" [Didymus, Septimius]

Track length1:07

Part II "Tho' the honours that Flora and Venus receive" [Septimius]

Track length3:02

Part II "O save her then" [Didymus, Septimius]

Track length0:36

Part II "Deeds of kindness to display" [Didymus]

Track length6:34

Part II "The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere" [Irene]

Track length0:38

Part II "Defend her, Heav'n" [Irene]

Track length4:35

Part II "Or lulled with grief" [Didymus]

Track length0:34

Part II "Sweet rose and lilly, flow'ry form" [Didymus]

Track length2:43

Part II "O save me, Heav'n" [Theodora, Didymus]

Track length1:26

Part II "The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health" [Theodora]

Track length3:19

Part II "Forbid it, Heav'n!" [Didymus]

Track length0:31

Part II "Or say, what right have I" [Didymus, Theodora]

Track length1:33

Part II "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus)

Track length4:34

Part II "'Tis night, but night's sweet blessing" [Irene]

Track length0:44

Part II "He saw the lovely youth" [Chorus]

Track length5:15

Part III "Lord to thee, each night and day" [Irene]

Track length4:20

Part III "But see, the good, the virtuous Didymus!" [Irene, Theodora]

Track length0:36

Part III "When sunk in anguish and despair" [Theodora]

Track length4:29

Part III "Blest be the hand" [Chorus, Theodora]

Track length3:26

Part III "Undaunted in the court" [Messenger, Irene]

Track length0:45

Part III "O my Irene, Heav'n is kind" "Stay me not, my friend" [Theodora]

Track length0:34

Part III "Whither, Princess, do you fly" [Irene, Theodora]

Track length1:17

Part III "She's gone, disdaining liberty and life" [Irene]

Track length0:30

Part III "New scenes of joy come crowding on" [Irene]

Track length3:29

Part III "Is it a Christian virtue, then" [Valens, Didymus] "Be that my doom" [Theodora, Septimius]

Track length1:53

Part III "From Virtue springs each gen'rous deed" [Septimius]

Track length7:05

Part III "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" [Valens]

Track length1:04

Part III "'Tis kind, my friends" [Didymus, Theodora]

Track length0:55

Part III "How strange their ends" [Chorus]

Track length4:24

Part III "On me your frowns" [Didymus, Theodora, Valens]

Track length0:42

Part III "And must such beauty suffer!" [Didymus, Theodora, Septimius]

Track length0:39

Part III "Streams of pleasure ever flowing..." "Thither let our hearts aspire!" [Didymus, Theodora]

Track length5:20

Part III "Ere this their doom is past" [Irene]

Track length0:25

Part III "O love divine, thou source of fame" [Irene, Chorus]

Track length4:09

Awards and reviews

Christmas 2009

Sophie Daneman is the Christian martyr, bringing innocence and radiant resolve to the role… Christie's management of the sequence of symphonies and arias in Act II, scene 2 is masterly as Theodora waits, trembling, 'for shame or death'.

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

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