- 130 Tracks
- 320 kbps
- 5:24:21
Disk #1
2.No.2 Chorus: Oh, the pleasure of the plains4:48 3.No.3 Accompagnato (Galatea): Ye verdant plains and woody mountains0:42 4.No.4 Air (Galatea): Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!6:30 5.No.5 Air (Acis): Where shall I seek the charming fair?3:03 6.Recitative (Damon): Stay, shepherd, stay!0:19 7.No.6 Air (Damon): Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?3:58 8.Recitative (Acis): Lo! Here my love0:25 9.No.7 Air (Acis): Love in her eyes sits playing6:06 10.Recitative (Galatea): Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love0:13 11.No.8 Air (Galatea): 'As when the dove laments her love'6:08 12.No.9a Duet (Acis, Galatea): Happy we! What joys I feel!2:41 13.No.9b Chorus: Happy we! What joys I feel!1:11 Disk #2
1.Act II. No.10 Chorus: Wretched lovers! Fate has passed this sad decree4:22 2.No.11 Accompagnato: (Polyphemus): I rage, I melt, I burn!1:15 3.No.12 Air (Polyphemus):'O ruddier than the cherry3:03 4.Recitative (Polyphemus, Galatea): Whither, fairest, art thou running0:56 5.No.13 Air (Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing4:27 6.No.14 Air (Damon): Would you gain the tender creature5:40 7.Recitative (Acis): His hideous love provokes my rage0:22 8.No.15 Air (Acis): Love sounds th'alarm, and fear is a-flying4:33 9.No.16 Air (Coridon): Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting's the pleasure6:33 10.Recitative (Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth0:24 11.No.17 Trio (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountains2:14 12.No.18 Accompagnato (Acis): Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!1:15 13.No.19 Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses! Weep, all ye swains!3:42 14.No.20a Solo and Chorus (Galatea): Must I my Acis still bemoan...6:06 15.Recitative (Galatea): 'Tis done: thus I exert pow'r divine; be thou immortal0:27 16.No.21 Air (Galatea): Heart, the seat of soft delight...3:36 17.No.22 Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears, Acis now a god appears!3:03 Disk #3
1.Ouverture: [Grave] - Allegro3:05 4.Part I. Scene 1. Recitative: 'Tis Diocletian's natal day (Valens)0:32 5.Scene 1. Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go (Valens)1:46 6.Scene 1. Chorus: And draw a blessing down (Heathens)2:05 7.Scene 1. Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread Sir, a gracious ear (Didymus, Valens)0:55 8.Scene 1. Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire (Valens)3:36 9.Scene 1. Chorus: For ever thus stands fixed the doom (Heathens)1:33 10.Scene 2. Recitative: Most cruel edict! (Didymus)0:31 11.Scene 2. Air: The rapture'd soul defies thr sword (Didymus)8:28 12.Scene 2. Recitative: I know thy vitues (Septimus)0:41 13.Scene 2. Air: Descend, kind pity, heav'nly guest (Septimus)6:17 14.Scene 3. Recitative: Tho' hard, my friends (Theodora)0:28 15.Scene 3. Air: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu! (Theodora)4:40 16.Scene 3. Recitative: O bright example of all goodness! (Irene)0:30 17.Scene 3. Air: Bane of virtue (Irene)5:26 18.Scene 3. Chorus: Come, mighty Father (Christians)3:41 19.Scene 4. Recitative: Fly, fly, my brethren (Messenger, Irene)0:59 20.Scene 4. Air: As with rosy steps the morn (Irene)5:57 21.Scene 4. Chorus: All pow'r in Heav'n above (Christians)2:19 22.Scene 5. Recitative: Mistaken wretches! (Septimus)0:20 23.Scene 5. Air: Dread the fruits of Christian folly (Septimus)2:40 24.Scene 5. Recitative: Deluded mortal! (Theodora, Septimus)1:02 25.Scene 5. Accompagnato: O worse than death indeed (Theodora)0:27 26.Scene 5. Air: Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora)3:20 27.Scene 6. Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! (Didymus, Irene)1:09 28.Scene 6. Air: Kind Heav'n, if virtue by thy care (Didymus)5:28 29.Scene 6. Recitative: O love, how great thy pow'r (Irene)0:24 30.Scene 6. Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious youth (Christians)5:53 Disk #4
1.Part II. Scene 1. Recitative: Ye men of Antioch (Valens)0:36 2.Scene 1. Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love (Heathens)0:50 3.Scene 1. Air: Wide spread his name (Valens)2:14 4.Scene 1. Recitative: Return, Septimius (Valens)0:38 5.Scene 1. Chorus: Venus, laughing from the skies (Heathens)1:18 7.Scene 2. Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Theodora)0:34 8.Scene 2. Air: With darkness deep as is my woe (Theodora)3:57 10.Scene 2. Recitative: But why art thou disquieted, my soul? (Theodora)0:30 11.Scene 2. Air: Oh, that I on wings could rise (Theodora)3:40 12.Scene 3. Recitative: Long have I known (Didymus, Septimius)1:08 13.Scene 3. Air: Tho' the honours that Flora and Venus receive (Septimius)3:02 14.Scene 3. Recitative: O save her then (Didymus, Septimius)0:36 15.Scene 3. Air: Deeds of kindness to display (Didymus)6:34 16.Scene 4. Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere (Irene)0:39 17.Scene 4. Air: Defend her, Heav'n (Irene)4:35 18.Scene 5. Recitative: Or lulled with grief (Didymus)0:35 19.Scene 5. Air: Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form (Didymus)2:44 20.Scene 5. Recitative: O save me, Heav'n (Theodora, Didymus)1:27 21.Scene 5. Air: The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health (Theodora)3:19 22.Scene 5. Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heav'n! (Didymus)0:32 23.Scene 5. Recitative: Or say, what right have I (Didymus, Theodora)1:33 24.Scene 5. Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of worth (Theodora, Didymus)4:35 25.Scene 6. Recitative: 'Tis night, but night's sweet blessing (Irene)0:45 26.Scene 6. Chorus: He saw the lovely youth (Christians)5:16 Disk #5
1.Part III. Scene 1. Air: Lord, to thee, each night and day (Irene)4:20 2.Scene 2. Recitative: But see the good, the virtuous Didymus! (Irene, Theodora)0:36 3.Scene 2. Air: When sunk in anguish and despair (Theodora)4:30 4.Scene 2. Chorus: Blest be the hand (Christians, Theodora)3:27 5.Scene 3. Recitative: Undaunted in the court (Messenger, Irene)0:46 6.Scene 3. Accompagnato: O my Irene, Heav'n is kind (Theodora)0:34 7.Scene 3. Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly (Irene, Theodora)1:18 8.Scene 3.Recitative: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life (Irene)0:31 9.Scene 3. Air: New scenes of joy come crowding on (Irene)3:30 10.Scene 4. Recitative: Is it a Christian virtue, then (Valens, Didymus) / Scene 5...1:53 11.Scene 5. Air: From Virtue springs each gen'rous deed (Septimius)7:05 12.Scene 5. Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r (Valens)1:05 13.Scene 5. Recitative: 'Tis kind, my friends (Didymus, Theodora)0:56 14.Scene 5. Chorus: How strange their ends (Heathens)4:24 15.Scene 5. Recitative: On me your frowns (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)0:43 16.Scene 6. Recitative: And must such beauty suffer! (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)0:39 17.Scene 6. Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing (Didymus) / Thither let...5:20 18.Scene 6. Recitative: Ere this their doom is past (Irene)0:26 19.Scene 6. Chorus: O love divine, thou source of fame (Irene, Christians)4:09 Disk #6
1.Agrippina condotta a morire, HWV 110. Recitativo: Dunque sarа pur vero1:01 2.Aria: Orrida, oscura l'etra si renda3:13 3.Recitativo: Ma pria che d'empia morte0:51 4.Aria: Renda cenere il tiranno2:26 5.Recitativo: Si, si, del gran tiranno provi l'alta potenza 'l traditire1:22 6.Arioso e Recitativo: Come, o Dio! bramo la morte a chi ebbe vita da me?6:51 7.Aria: Se infelice al mondo vissi4:28 8.Recitativo: Prema l'ingrato figlio di plaustro ttrionfal sponde gemmate1:15 9.Aria: Su, lacerate il seno, ministri1:55 10.Recitativo: Ecco a morte giа corro0:36 11.Armida abbandonata, HWV 105. Accompagnato: Dietro l'orme fugaci1:02 12.Aria: Ah! crudele, e pur ten' vai5:01 13.Recitativo: Per te mi struggo, infido0:28 14.Accompagnato: O voi, dell'incostante e procelloso mare orridi mostri0:49 15.Aria: Venti, venti, fermate, si2:35 16.Recitativo: Ma che parlo, che dico?1:10 17.Aria: In tanti affanni miei assistimi almen tu, Nume d'amore!4:04 18.La Lucrezia, HWV 145. Recitativo: O Numi eterni! O stelle!0:57 19.Aria: Giа superbo del mio affanno4:07 20.Recitativo: Ma voi force nel Cielo, per castigo maggior del mio delitto0:48 21.Aria: Il suol che preme, l'aura che spira l'empio Romano3:20 22.Recitativo: Ah! che ancor nell'abisso dormon le furie1:17 23.Aria: Alla salma infedel porga la pena2:53 24.Recitativo: A voi, padre, consorte, a Roma, al mondo presento il mio morir0:48 25.Arioso: Giа nel seno comincia a compir questo ferro i duri uffizii1:38 
