Lea Desandre a Iestyn Davies sú uznávaní interpreti barokovej hudby; obe mená pravidelne spolupracujú s lutnovým ansamblom Jupiter, ktorého umeleckým vedúcim je Thomas Dunford.
Album Eternal Heaven vyšiel na CD a obsahuje árie a duety z Händelových oratórií Semele, Hercules, Theodora, Saul, Solomon, Susanna, Esther a ďalších. Výber 22 skladieb je dramaturgicky prepojený do akéhosi súvislého príbehu; Thomas Dunford projekt nazval „barokná West Side Story“. Nechýba slávna ária Eternal Source of Light Divine z ódy pre narodeniny kráľovnej Anny ani lutnová Sarabanda zo Suity č. 4 d mol. Covidová pauza umožnila interpretom intenzívne štúdium partitúr, ktoré viedlo k tomuto konceptuálnemu albumu, na ktorom sa striedajú sólové výstupy oboch spevákov s lyricky ladenými duetami.
Skladby
1. Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74: "Eternal Source of Light Divine"
2. Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "With Darkness Deep, as Is My Woe" (Theodora)
3. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay" (Hercules)
4. Handel: Hercules, HWV 60, Act 2: "Joys of Freedom" (Dejanira, Iole)
5. Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act 1: "As With Rosy Steps the Morn" (Irene)
6. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: "Despair No More Shall Wound Me" (Athamas)
7. Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act 3: "Will the Sun Forget to Streak" (Queen of Sheba)
8. Handel: Susanna, HWV 66, Act 3: "To My Chaste Susanna’s Praise" (Joacim, Susanna)
9. Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (David)
10. Handel: Joseph and His Brethren, HWV 59, Act 3: "Prophetic Raptures Swell My Breast" (Asenath)
11. Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act 3: "Thither Let Our Hearts Aspire!" (Theodora, Didymus)
12. Handel: Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande
13. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "Prepare, Then, Ye Immortal Choir" (Semele, Ino)
14. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "Hence, Iris, Hence Away" (Juno)
15. Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV 71, Act 3: "Guardian Angels, Oh, Protect me" (Beauty)
16. Handel: Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Pt. 1: "Fly from the Threat’ning Vengeance, Fly!"
17. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: "You’ve Undone Me" (Ino, Athamas)
18. Handel: Esther, HWV 50b, Act 2: "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?" (Esther, Ahasuerus)
19. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: "No, No, I’ll Take No Less" (Semele)
20. Handel: Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: "But Hark, the Heav'nly Sphere Turns Round" (Ino)
21. Handel: Theodora, HWV 68, Act 2: "To Thee Thy Glorious Son of Worth" (Theodora, Didymus)
22. Balliett & Dunford: That's so You
