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Handel Edition Volume 8 - Theodora, Acis and Galatea, etc.

Sophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Patricia Petibon (Damon), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon), Sophie Daneman (Theodora), Richard Croft (Septimius), Juliette Galstian (Irene), Daniel Taylor (Didymus), Nathan Berg (Valens), Laurent Slaars (Messenger), Eva Mei (soprano)

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  • Release Date: 17th Nov 2008
  • Catalogue No: 2564695641
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Handel Edition
  • Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Acis and Galatea

Work length1:31:04
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$51.00
  • Andrew Sinclair (tenor), Patricia Petibon (soprano), Alan Ewing (bass), David Le Monnier (baritone), François Piolino (tenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Joseph Cornwell (tenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Act 1 Sinfonia

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Act 1 "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Stay, shepherd, stay!" [Damon]

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Act 1 "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing" [Damon]

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Act 1 "Lo! Here my love" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Love in her eyes sits playing" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Oh! Didst thou know the pains" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "As when the dove laments her love" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Happy we!" [Acis, Galatea]

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Act 1 "Happy we!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Wretched lovers!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "I rage, I melt, I burn" [Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "O ruddier than the cherry" [Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "Whither, fairest, art thou running" [Polyphemus, Galatea]

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Act 2 "Cease to beauty to be suing" [Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "Would you gain the tender creature" [Damon]

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Act 2 "His hideous love provokes my rage" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Love sounds th'alarm" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Consider, fond shepherd" [Coridon]

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Act 2 "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" [Galatea]

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Act 2 "The flocks shall leave the mountains" [Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Mourn, all ye muses!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Must I my Acis still bemoan" [Galatea, Chorus]

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Act 2 "'Tis done - thus I exert pow'r divine" [Galatea]

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Act 2 "Heart, the seat of soft delight" [Galatea]

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Act 2 "Galatea, dry thy tears" [Chorus]

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Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

Work length2:57:28
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  • Nathan Berg (baritone), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), Richard Croft (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Juliette Galstian (mezzo-soprano), Laurent Slaars (baritone)
  • Chœur des Arts Florissants, Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Overture to Part I - Allegro

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Overture to Part I - Trio

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Overture to Part I - Courante

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Part I "Most cruel edict!" [Didymus]

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

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Part I "I know thy virtues" [Septimius]

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

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

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

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

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Part I "Bane of virtue" [Irene]

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Part I "Come, mighty Father" [Chorus]

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

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

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

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Part I "Mistaken wretches!" [Septimius]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Part II "Ye men of Antioch" [Valens]

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

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Part II "Wide spread his name" [Valens]

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Part II "Return, Septimius" [Valens]

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

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Part II Symphony

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

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

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Part II Sinfonia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Part II "Or lulled with grief" [Didymus]

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

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

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

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

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

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Theodora, HWV 68, Part 2: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Part III "How strange their ends" [Chorus]

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

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

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

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

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

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Handel: Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110

Work length23:52
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  • Eva Mei (soprano)
  • Il Giardino Armonico
  • Giovanni Antonini

I "Dunque sarà pur vero, che disseti la terra il sangue mio?" [Soprano]

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II "Orrida, oscura l'etra si renda" [Soprano]

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III "Ma pria che d'empia morte" [Soprano]

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IV "Renda cenere il tiranno" [Soprano]

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V "Sì, sì, del gran tiranno provi l'alta potenza 'l traditore" [Soprano]

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VI "Come, o Dio! bramo la morte a chi ebbe via da me?" [Soprano]

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VII "Se infelice al mondo vissi" [Soprano]

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VIII "Prema l'ingrato figlio di plaustro trionfal sponde gemmate" [Soprano]

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IX "Su, lacerate il seno, ministri" [Soprano]

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X "Ecco a morte già corro" [Soprano]

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Handel: Armida abbandonata, HWV 105

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  • Eva Mei (soprano)
  • Il Giardino Armonico
  • Giovanni Antonini

I "Dietro l'orme fugaci del guerrier" [Soprano]

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II "Ah! crudele, e pur ten' vai" [Soprano]

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III "Per te mi struggo, infido" [Soprano]

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IV "O voi, dell'incostante" [Soprano]

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V "Venti, venti, fermate, sì" [Soprano]

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VI "Ma che parlo, che dico?" [Soprano]

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VII "In tanti affanni miei assistimi almen tu, Nume d'amore!" [Soprano]

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Handel: La Lucrezia "O Numi eterni", Cantata HWV 145

Work length15:51
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  • Eva Mei (soprano)
  • Il Giardino Armonico
  • Giovanni Antonini

I "O Numi eterni! O stelle! che fulminate empii tiranni" [Soprano]

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II "Già superbo del mio affanno" [Soprano]

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III "Ma voi forse nel Cielo, per castigo maggior del mio delitto" [Soprano]

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IV "Il suol che preme, l'aura che spira l'empio Romano" [Soprano]

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V "Ah! che ancor nell'abisso dormon le furie! [Soprano]

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VI "Alla salma infedel porga la pena" [Soprano]

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VII "A voi, padre, consorte, a Roma, al mondo presento il mio morir" [Soprano]

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VIII "Già nel seno comincia a compir questo ferro i duri uffizii" [Soprano]

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