Angels ever bright and fair (Handel) - Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
“Angels ever bright and fair“
from Handel’s oratorio Theodora (HWV 68)
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson with
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan
First performed March 16, 1750 at Convent Garden Theatre, London.
Libretto by Thomas Morrell after Robert Boyle’s “The Matyrdom of Theodora and Didymus“ (1687).
THEODORA:
Angels, ever bright and fair,
Take, oh take me to your care;
Speed to your own courts my flight
Clad in robes of virgin whit