Jephtha
19909999
Labels: London Classics
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Disc1
| 1 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 1. Overture | George Frideric Handel | 3:50 |
| 2 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 2. Menuet | George Frideric Handel | 1:43 |
| 3 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 3. Recitative: It Must Be So – or These Vile Ammonites (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 1:26 |
| 4 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 4. Air: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray’Rs (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 3:15 |
| 5 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 5. Chorus: No More to Ammon’s God and King | George Frideric Handel | 2:57 |
| 6 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 6. Recitative: But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heaven, Assist Our Plea (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 1:00 |
| 7 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 7. Air: Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 4:04 |
| 8 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 8. Recitative: ’Twill Be a Painful Separation, Jephtha (Storgè) / No. 9. Air: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn (Storgè) | George Frideric Handel | 5:17 |
| 9 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 10. Recitative: Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis (Hamor) / No. 11. Air: Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish (Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 4:47 |
| 10 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 12. Recitative: Ill Suits the Voice of Love When Glory Calls (Iphis) / No. 13. Air: Take the Heart You Fondly Gave (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 5:00 |
| 11 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 14. Recitative: I Go. My Soul, Inspir’d by Thy Command (Hamor) / No. 15. Duet: These Labours Past, How Happy We! (Iphis, Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 6:40 |
| 12 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 16. Recitative: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies of the Brain? (Jephtha) / Accompagnato: If, Lord, Sustained by Thy Almighty Pow’r (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 1:29 |
| 13 | Jephtha, Act I: Accompagnato: ’Tis Said (Jephtha) / No. 17. Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress | George Frideric Handel | 4:42 |
| 14 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 18. Recitative: Some Dire Event Hands O’Er Our Heads (Storgè) / No. 19. Air: Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe (Storgè) | George Frideric Handel | 5:13 |
| 15 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 20. Recitative: Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 0:51 |
| 16 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 21. Air: The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 3:01 |
| 17 | Jephtha, Act I: No. 22. Recitative: Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King’s Reply (Zebul) / No. 23. Chorus: When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke | George Frideric Handel | 5:14 |
Disc2
| 1 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 24. Recitative: Glad Tidings of Great Joy (Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 1:10 |
| 2 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 25. Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim | George Frideric Handel | 3:12 |
| 3 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 26. Air: Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending (Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 5:27 |
| 4 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 27. Recitative: ’Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens (Iphis) / No. 28. Air: Tune the Soft Melodious Lute (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 5:06 |
| 5 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 29. Recitative: Again Heav’n Smiles on His Repentant People (Zebul) / No. 30. Air: Freedom Now Once More Possessing (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 4:05 |
| 6 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 31. Recitative: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant (Jephtha) / No. 32. Air: His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow (Fephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 6:04 |
| 7 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 33. Chorus: In Glory High, in Might Serene | George Frideric Handel | 2:25 |
| 8 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 34. Symphony | George Frideric Handel | 1:18 |
| 9 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 35. Recitative: Hail, Glorious Conqueror (Iphis) / No. 36. Air: Welcome as the Cheerful Light… Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire (Iphis, Chorus of Boys) | George Frideric Handel | 4:02 |
| 10 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 37. Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha) / No. 38. Air: Open Thy Marble Jaws, o Tomb (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 4:50 |
| 11 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 39. Recitative: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 1:14 |
| 12 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 40. Concitato: First Perish Thou, and Perish All the World! (Storgè) / Air: Let Other Creatures Die (Storgè) | George Frideric Handel | 2:13 |
| 13 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 41. Recitative: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose (Hamor) / No. 42. Air: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal (Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 1:51 |
| 14 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 43. Quartet: O Spare Your Daughter (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 2:40 |
| 15 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 44. Recitative: Such News Flies Swift (Iphis) / No. 45. Air: Happy They! This Vital Breath (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 4:12 |
| 16 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 46. Accompagnato: Deeper, and Deeper Still (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 3:23 |
| 17 | Jephtha, Act II: No. 47. Chorus: How Dark, o Lord, Are Thy Decrees | George Frideric Handel | 8:56 |
Disc3
| 1 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 48. Accompagnato: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, o Sun (Jephtha) / Recitative: A Father, Offering Up His Only Child (/Ephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 2:55 |
| 2 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 49. Air: Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 4:48 |
| 3 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 50. Accompagnato: Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne’er Yet (Iphis) / No. 51. Air: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs and Floods (Iphis) | George Frideric Handel | 6:02 |
| 4 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 52. Chorus: Doubtful Fear and Rev’rent Awe | George Frideric Handel | 5:00 |
| 5 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 53. Symphony | George Frideric Handel | 1:28 |
| 6 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 54. Recitative: Rise, Jephtha, and Ye Rev’rend Priests (Angel) | George Frideric Handel | 1:11 |
| 7 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 55. Air: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live (Angel) | George Frideric Handel | 4:43 |
| 8 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 56. Arioso: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name (Jephtha) | George Frideric Handel | 1:50 |
| 9 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 57. Chorus: Theme Sublime of Endless Praise | George Frideric Handel | 3:10 |
| 10 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 58. Recitative: Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn (Zebul) / No. 59. Air: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train (Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 1:44 |
| 11 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 60. Recitative: O Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother’s Arms (Storgè) / No. 61. Air: Sweet as Sight to the Blind (Storgè) | George Frideric Handel | 2:32 |
| 12 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 62. Recitative: With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety (Hamor) / No. 63. Air: ’Tis Heaven’s All-Ruling Pow’r (Hamor) | George Frideric Handel | 5:41 |
| 13 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 64. Recitative: My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence (Iphis) / No. 65. Quintet: All That Is in Hamor Mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul) | George Frideric Handel | 4:21 |
| 14 | Jephtha, Act III: No. 66. Chorus: Ye House of Gilead | George Frideric Handel | 3:50 |
| 15 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Sinfonia / Chorus: In the Lord I Put My Trust | George Frideric Handel | 8:21 |
| 16 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: God is a Constant Sure Defence (tenor) | George Frideric Handel | 2:40 |
| 17 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Behold, the Wicked Bend Their Bow | George Frideric Handel | 2:51 |
| 18 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: But God, Who Hears the Suff’ring Poor (tenor) | George Frideric Handel | 2:23 |
| 19 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Snares, Fire and Brimstone | George Frideric Handel | 1:56 |
| 20 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: The Righteous Lord Will Righteous Deeds (tenor) | George Frideric Handel | 2:21 |
| 21 | Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Then Shall My Song, With Praise Inspir’d | George Frideric Handel | 2:39 |