Millenium Orchestra - Handel: Theodora (CD) (New (N)) L7 California 90048

California 90048

Whole Lotta Shakin' 2:30

is the band’s most fully realized recording yet

UPC: 098787084610

Millenium Orchestra - Handel: Theodora (CD) (New (N)) L7 California 90048The oratorio Theodora was first performed at the Covent Garden Theatre on 16 March 1750 and clearly took Londoners by surprise. Handel had, after all, made a one hundred and eighty degree turn in his choice of subject. The grandiose episodes of the Old Testament, the glorious struggles of Solomon, Saul, or Judas Maccabaeus are no more: the young martyr Theodora leads neither a community nor troops into battle. In a work far removed from the grand