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Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend; Aria: More sweet is that name
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: My will obey
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Myself I shall adore
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful; Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath; Aria: Thus let my thanks be paid
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Aria: Rich odours fill the fragrant air; Aria: Come to my arms
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Oh Semele!; Aria: I am ever granting
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire; Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me! Too late now I repent
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream; Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Apollo comes; Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be
Theodora, HWV 68: Overture
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis Dioclesian's natal day; Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread lord, a gracious ear; Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: For ever thus stands fixed the doom
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Most cruel decree; sure thy noble soul; Air: The raptur'd soul defies the sword
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: I know thy virtures, and ask not thy faith; Air: Descend, kind pity, heav'nly guest
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Through hard, my friends; Air: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh bright example of all goodness
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Fly, fly, my brethren, heathen rage pursues us swift; Air: As with rosy steps the morn
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: All pow'r in Heaven above, or earth beneath
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh retched retches
Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Oh, worse than death indeed!; Air: Angels, ever bright and fair
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! Why stand you thus
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be Thy care
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh Love, how great thy power! Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious youth
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp; Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Wide spread his name
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid; Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies
Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays; Air: With darkness deep, as is my woe
Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But why art thou disquieted; Air: Oh, that I on wings could rise
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Long have I known thy friendly social soul; Air: Though the honours that Flora and Venus receive
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save her, then, or give me power to save
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere; Air: Defend her, Heav'n! Let angels spread
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Or lulled with grief or rapt her soul to heaven; Air: Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save me, Heaven, in this my perilous hour
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health
Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven!
Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of wrath
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: 'Tis night; but night's sweet blessing is denied
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, death's early prey
Theodora, HWV 68: Aria: Lord, to Thee, each night and day
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous Didimus
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the power
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Undanted in the court stands Didimus
Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly?
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: It is a Christian virtue then
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless prayer
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: How strange their ends
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert
Theodora, HWV 68: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ere this their doom is past, and they are gone
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Oh love divine, thou source of fame
Messiah, HWV 56: Sinfonia
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Comfort ye my people
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thus saith the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But who may abide
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And He shall purify
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
Messiah, HWV 56: Air & Chorus: O thou that tellest
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
Messiah, HWV 56: Air-Bass: The people that walked in darkness
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: For unto us a child is born
Messiah, HWV 56: PIFA (Pastoral Symphony)
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: There were shepherds; And lo, the Angel of the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And the angel said unto them
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And suddenly there was the angel
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind
Duet: And he shall feed his flock
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: His yoke is easy
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: He was despised
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: All we like sheep
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative-Tenor: All they that see Him
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: He trusted in God
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He was cut off out of the land
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But thou didst not leave
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Lift up your heads
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Unto which of the angels
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou art gone up on high
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: The Lord gave the word
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: How beautiful are the feet
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Their sound is gone out
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Why do the nations?
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou shalt break them
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Hallelujah
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Since by man came death
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: The trumpet shall sound
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass
Messiah, HWV 56: Duet: O death, where is thy sting?
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: But thanks be to God
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: If God be for us
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb...Amen
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