Handel: Jephtha

Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1989-01-01 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Jephtha: Overture - Menuet
  5:11
• 2
  Jephtha, Act 1: "It must be so: Or these vile Ammonites"
  1:23
• 3
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"
  2:51
• 4
  Jephtha, Act 1: "No more to Ammon's god and king"
  2:55
• 5
  Jephtha, Act 1: "But Jephta comes"
  0:53
• 6
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"
  4:07
• 7
  Jephtha, Act 1: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta" - "In gentle murmurs will I mourn"
  4:59
• 8
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" - "Dull delay, in piercing anguish"
  3:50
• 9
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" - "Take the heart you fondly gave"
  4:14
• 10
  Jephtha, Act 1: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command" - "These labours past, how happy we!"
  7:28
• 11
  Jephtha, Act 1: "What mean these doubtful fancies"
  1:57
• 12
  Jephtha, Act 1: "O God, behold our sore distress"
  4:34
• 13
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" - "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"
  4:57
• 14
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Say, my dear mother"
  0:53
• 15
  Jephtha, Act 1: "The smiling dawn of happy days"
  3:33
• 16
  Jephtha, Act 1: "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"
  0:26
• 17
  Jephtha, Act 1: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
  4:39
• 1
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"
  1:14
• 2
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
  3:12
• 3
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Up the dreadful steep ascending"
  4:15
• 4
  Jephtha, Act 2: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" - "Tune the soft melodious Lute"
  4:42
• 5
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" - "His mighty arm, with sudden blow"
  6:28
• 6
  Jephtha, Act 2: "In glory high, in might serene"
  2:32
• 7
  Jephtha, Act 2: Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"
  1:30
• 8
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Welcome as the cheerful light"
  3:52
• 9
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Horror! confusion!" - "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"
  4:59
• 10
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Why is my brother thus afflicted"
  0:58
• 11
  Jephtha, Act 2: "First perish thou, and perish all the world"
  2:20
• 12
  Jephtha, Act 2: "If such thy cruel purpose" - "On me let blind mistaken zeal"
  1:48
• 13
  Jephtha, Act 2: "O spare your daughter"
  3:13
• 14
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Such news flies swift"
  1:21
• 15
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Happy they! this vital breath"
  3:30
• 16
  Jephtha, Act 2: "Deeper, and deeper still"
  3:26
• 17
  Jephtha, Act 2: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
  8:04
• 1
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"
  3:03
• 2
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Waft her, angels, through the skies"
  4:29
• 3
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Ye sacred priests" - "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"
  6:27
• 4
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
  3:50
• 5
  Jephtha, Act 3: Symphony
  2:44
• 6
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"
  1:01
• 7
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"
  3:60
• 8
  Jephtha, Act 3: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"
  1:29
• 9
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Theme sublime of endless praise"
  3:23
• 10
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Let me congratulate this happy turn" - "Laud her, all ye virgin train"
  2:22
• 11
  Jephtha, Act 3: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" - "Sweet as sight
  2:16
• 12
  Jephtha, Act 3: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" - "All that is in Hamor mine"
  3:37
• 13
  Jephtha, Act 3: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
  2:60
• 14
  Applause
  0:18