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Paul McCreesh - Handel: Theodora & Solomon

ALBUM NAME

Paul McCreesh - Handel: Theodora & Solomon

℗ 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc. FP

RELEASE DATE

February 17, 2023

TRACK

138

DURATION

5:39:36

ALBUM ARTIST

Album TRACKS

George Frederick Handel

Theodora Overture: 1a. Ouverture

3:3

Overture: 1b. Trio

1:48

Overture: 1c. Courante

1:44

Pt. 1: 2. Recitative: ''Tis Dioclesian's natal day'

Pt. 1: 3. Aria: 'Go, my faithful soldier, go'

1:50

Pt. 1: 4. Chorus Of Heathens: 'And draw a blessing down'

2:6

Pt. 1: 5. Recitative: 'Vouchsafe, dread Sir'

Pt. 1: 6. Aria: 'Racks, gibbets, sword and fire'

3:20

Pt. 1: 7. Chorus Of Heathens: 'For ever thus stand fix'd'

1:37

Pt. 1: 8. Recitative: 'Most cruel edict'

Pt. 1: 9. Aria: 'The raptur'd soul'

8:18

Pt. 1: 10. Recitative: 'I know thy virtues'

Pt. 1: 11. Aria: 'Descend, kind Pity'

7:10

Pt. 1: 12. Recitative: 'Though hard, my friends'

Pt. 1: 13. Aria: 'Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu'

4:18

Pt. 1: 14. Recitative: 'Oh bright example'

Pt. 1: 15. Aria: 'Bane of virtue'

5:6

Pt. 1: 16. Chorus Of Christians: 'Come, mighty Father'

2:35

Pt. 1: 17. Recitative: 'Fly, fly, my brethren'

1:1

Pt. 1: 18. Aria: 'As with rosy steps the morn'

6:48

Pt. 1: 19. Chorus: 'All pow'r in heav'n'

2:15

Pt. 1: 20. Recitative: 'Mistaken wretches!'

Pt. 1: 21. Aria: 'Dread the fruits of Christian folly'

2:43

Pt. 1: 22. Recitative: 'Deluded mortal'/Accompagnato: 'O worse than death indeed'

1:21

Pt. 1: 23. Aria: 'Angels, ever bright and fair'

3:36

Pt. 1: 24. Recitative: 'Unhappy, happy crew!'

1:11

Pt. 1: 25. Air: 'Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care'

5:4

Pt. 1: 26. Recitative: 'Oh love! how great thy pow'r'

Pt. 1: 27. Chorus: 'Go, gen'rous pious youth'

4:51

Pt. 2: 28. Recitative: 'Ye men of Antioch'

Pt. 2: 29. Chorus Of Heathens: 'Queen of summer'

Pt. 2: 30. Aria: 'Wide spread his name'

2:22

Pt. 2: 31. Recitative: 'Return, Septimius'

Pt. 2: 32. Chorus Of Heathens: 'Venus laughing from the skies'

1:18

Pt. 2: 33. Sinfony

1:2

Pt. 2: 34. Recitative: 'Oh thous bright sun!'

Pt. 2: 35. Aria: 'With darkness deep'

3:53

Pt. 2: 36. Sinfony

1:22

Pt. 2: 37. Recitative: 'But why art thou disquieted?'

Pt. 2: 38. Aria: 'O! that I on wings could rise'

3:13

Pt. 2: 39. Recitative: 'Long have I known'

1:21

Pt. 2: 40. Aria: 'Though the honours, that Flora'

3:57

Pt. 2: 41. Recitative: 'O save her then'

Pt. 2: 42. Aria: 'Deeds of kindness to display'

6:57

Pt. 2: 43. Recitative: 'The clouds begin to veil'

Pt. 2: 44. Aria: 'Defend her, Heav'n'

4:57

Pt. 2: 45. Recitative: 'Or lull'd with grief'

Pt. 2: 46. Aria: 'Sweet rose and lily'

2:32

Pt. 2: 47. Recitative: 'O save me, Heav'n'

1:18

Pt. 2: 48. Aria: 'the pilgrim's home'

2:43

Pt. 2: 49. Accompagnato: 'Forbid it, Heav'n!'/Rec.: 'Ah! what is liberty'

1:54

Pt. 2: 50. Duet: 'To thee, thou glorious son of worth'

4:36

Pt. 2: 51. Recitative: ''Tis night'

Pt. 2: 52. Chorus Of Christians: 'He saw the lovely youth'

4:48

Pt. 2: 34a. Recitative: 'Oh thou bright sun!'

Pt. 2: 36a. Sinfony

1:40

Pt. 3: 53. Aria: 'Lord, to thee each night and day'

5:11

Pt. 3: 54. Recitative: 'But see, the good, the virtuous'

Pt. 3: 55. Aria: 'When sunk in anguish and despair'

3:54

Pt. 3: 56. Chorus Of Christians and Theodora: 'Blest be the hand'

3:27

Pt. 3: 57. Recitative: 'Undaunted in the court' / Accompagnato: 'O my Irene, Heav'n is kind'

1:30

Pt. 3: 58. Duet: 'Whither, Princess, do you fly?'

1:9

Pt. 3: 59. Recitative: 'She's gone disdaining liberty and life'

Pt. 3: 60. Aria: 'New scenes of joy come crowding on'

4:31

Pt. 3: 61. Recitative: 'Is it a Christian virtue then' / 'Be that my doom'

1:54

Pt. 3: 62. Aria: 'From virtue springs each gen'rous deed'

6:34

Pt. 3: 63. Aria: 'Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r'

1:2

Pt. 3: 64. Recitative: ''Tis kind, my friends'

Pt. 3: 65. Chorus Of Heathens: 'How strange their ends'

3:22

Pt. 3: 66. Recitative: 'On me your frowns'

Pt. 3: 67. Aria: 'Ye ministers of justice'

1:7

Pt. 3: 68. Recitative: 'And must such beauty suffer'

Pt. 3: 69. Aria And Duet: 'Streams of pleasure ever flowing' / 'Thither let our hearts aspire'

6:4

Pt. 3: 70. Recitative: 'Ere this their doom is past'

Pt. 3: 71. Chorus Of Christians: 'O Love divine'

3:2

George Frederick Handel

Solomon, HWV 67 Overture

6:41

Act I: 'Your harps and cymbals'

3:16

Act I: 'Praise ye the Lord'

5:6

Act I: 'With pious heart'

4:24

Act I: 'Almighty Power'

3:19

Act I: 'Imperial Salomon'

Act I: 'Sacred raptures'

4:11

Act I: 'Throughout the land'

3:32

Act I: 'Bless'd be the Lord'

Act I: 'What tho' I trace'

6:29

Act I: 'And see my Queen'

Act I: 'Bless'd the day'

4:20

Act I: 'Thou fair inhabitant of Nile'

Act I: 'Welcome as the dawn of day'

3:15

Act I: 'Vain are the transient beauties'

Act I: 'Indulge thy faith'

3:38

Act I: 'My blooming fair'

Act I: 'Haste to the cedar grove'

2:47

Act I: 'When thou art absent'

Act I: 'With thee th'unshelter'd moor'

2:10

Act I: 'Search round the world'

Act I: 'May no rash intruder'

4:21

Act II: 'From the censer'

5:1

Act II: 'Prais'd be the Lord'

1:13

100

Act II: 'When the sun o'er yonder hills'

4:4

101

Act II: 'Great prince'

102

Act II: 'Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king'

3:8

103

Act II: 'My sovereign liege'

1:54

104

Act II: 'Words are weak'

5:27

105

Act II: 'What says the other'

1:22

106

Act II: 'Thy sentence, great king'

1:48

107

Act II: 'Withhold, withhold the executing hand!'

108

Act II: 'Can I see my infant gor'd'

4:38

109

Act II: 'Israel' attend'

1:55

110

Act II: 'Thrice bless'd be the king'

3:39

111

Act II: 'From the east unto the west'

2:32

112

Act II: 'From morn to eve'

113

Act II: 'See the tall palm'

4:52

114

Act II: 'No more shall armed bands'

115

Act II: 'Beneath the vine'

5:2

116

Act II: 'Swell, swell the full chorus'

2:57

117

Act III: Sinfony

2:51

118

Act III: 'From Arabia's spicy shores'

1:19

119

Act III: 'Ev'ry sight these eyes behold'

4:15

120

Act III: 'Sweep, sweep the string'

121

Act III: 'Music, spread thy voice around'

3:48

122

Act III: 'Now a diff'rent measure' - 'Shake the dome'

1:41

123

Act III: 'Then at once from rage remove'

124

Act III: 'Draw the tear from hopeless love'

3:1

125

Act III: 'Next the tortur'd soul release'

126

Act III: 'Thus rolling surge rise'

3:18

127

Act III: 'Thy harmony's divine'

1:8

128

Act III: 'Pious king'

2:40

129

Act III: 'Thrice happy king'

130

Act III: 'Golden columns'

3:9

131

Act III: 'Praise the Lord'

4:16

132

Act III: 'Gold now is common'

133

Act III: 'How green our fertile pastures look!'

1:55

134

Act III: 'May peace in Salem'

135

Act III: 'Will the sun forget to streak'

6:20

136

Act III: 'Adieu, fair queen'

137

Act III: 'Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows'

2:29

138

Act III: 'The name of the wicked'

2:23

ALBUM ARTISTS

Alison Hagley

Soprano (Vocal)

Andreas Scholl

Counter Tenor (Vocal)

Angus Smith

Tenor (Vocal)

George Frederick Handel

composer

Giovanni Gabrieli

Performer

Inger Dam-Jensen

Soprano (Vocal)

Neal Davies

Bass (Vocal)

Paul Agnew

Tenor Vocal

Paul McCreesh

Conductor

Peter Harvey

Bass (Vocal)

Robin Blaze

Counter Tenor Vocal

Susan Bickley

Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)

Susan Gritton

Soprano (Vocal)