Jephtha

Georg Friedrich Händel, Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Ruth Holton, The English Baroque Soloists, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Released: 1989 Classical

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Tracklist

Jephtha HWV 70 - Oratorio In Three Acts = Oratorium In Drei Akten = Oratorio En Trois Actes

1-1 Overture - Menuet

5:11

Act = Akt = Acte = Atto I

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 1

1-2 "It Must Be So: Or These Vile Ammonites" (Zebul)

1:23

1-3 "Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs" (Zebul)

2:51

1-4 "No More To Ammon's God And King" (Chorus)

2:55

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 2

1-5 "But Jephtha Comes" (Zenul, Jephtha)

0:53

1-6 "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace" (Jephtha)

4:07

1-7.1 "'Twill Be A Painfull Separation, Jephtha" (Storgè)

1-7.2 "In Gentle Murmers Will I Mourn" (Storgè)

4:59

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 3

1-8.1 "Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis" (Hamor)

1-8.2 "Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish" (Hamor)

3:50

1-9.1 "Ill Suits The Voice Of Love When Glory Calls" (Iphis)

1-9.2 "Take The Heart You Fondly Gave" (Iphis)

4:14

1-10.1 "I Go. My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command" (Hamor)

1-10.2 "These Labours Past, How Happy We! (Iphis, Hamor)

7:27

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 4

1-11 "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" (Jephtha)

1:58

1-12 "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress" (Chorus)

4:33

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 5

1-13.1 "Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads" (Storgè)

1-13.2 "Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe" (Storgè)

4:57

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 6

1-14 "Say, My Dear Mother" (Iphis)

0:53

1-15 "The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days" (Iphis)

3:33

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 7

1-16 "Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply" (Zebul, Jephtha)

0:26

1-17 "When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke" (Chorus)

4:35

Act = Akt = Acte = Atto II

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena

2-1 "Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis" (Hamor)

1:14

2-2 "Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms" (Chorus)

3:12

2-3 "Up The Dreadfull Steep Ascending" (Hamor)

4:15

2-4.1 "'Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens" (Iphis)

2-4.2 "Tune The Soft Melodious Lute" (Iphis)

4:42

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 2

2-5.1 "Heav'n Smiles Once More On His Repentant People" (Jephtha)

2-5.2 "His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow" (Jephtha)

6:29

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 3

2-6 "In Glory High, In Might Serene" (Chorus)

2:32

2-7 Symphony - "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" (Iphis)

1:31

2-8 "Welcome As The Cheerful Light" (Iphis, Chorus)

3:52

2-9.1 "Horror! Confusion!" (Jephtha)

2-9.2 "Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb" (Jephtha)

5:00

2-10 "Why Is My Brother Thus Affected" (Zebul, Jephtha)

0:59

2-11 "First Perish Thou, And Perish All The World!" (Storgè)

2:20

2-12.1 "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" (Hamor)

2-12.2 "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal" (Hamor)

1:48

2-13 "O Spare Your Daughter" (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha)

3:13

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena

2-14 "Such News Flies Swift" (Iphis)

1:21

2-15 "Happy They! This Vital Breath" (Iphis)

3:31

2-16 "Deeper, And Deeper Still" (Jephtha)

3:28

2-17 "How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!" (Chorus)

8:02

Act • Akt • Acte • Atto III

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 1

3-1 "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun" (Jephtha)

3:02

3-2 "Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies" (Jephtha)

4:30

3-3.1 "Ye Sacred Priests" (Iphis)

3-3.2 "Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs And Floods" (Iphis)

6:26

3-4 "Doubtful Fear And Rev'rent Awe" (Chorus)

3:51

3-5 Symphony

2:44

3-6 "Rise, Jephtha, And Ye Rev'rend Priests" (Angel)

1:01

3-7 "Happy, Iphis Shalt Thou Live" (Angel)

3:59

3-8 "For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name" (Jephtha)

1:29

3-9 "Theme Sublime Of Endless Praise" (Chorus)

3:23

Scene = Szene = Scène = Scena 2

3-10.1 "Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn" (Zebul)

3-10.2 "Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train" (Zebul)

2:22

3-11.1 "O Let Me Fold Thee In A Mother's Arms" (Storgè)

3-11.2 "Sweet As Sight To The Blind" (Storgè)

2:16

3-12.1 "My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence" (Iphis)

3-12.2 "All That Is In Hamor Mine" (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul)

3:37

3-13 "Ye House Of Gilead, With One Voice" (Chorus)

3:00

3-14 Applause

0:19