Handel: Jeptha, HWV 70

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Marcus Creed, John Mark Ainsley, MICHAEL GEORGE, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, Axel Köhler & Julia Gooding

2013-04-01 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Jeptha, HWV 70: Overture
  5:30
• 2
  Jeptha, HWV 70: Menuet
  1:38
• 3
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 1: Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" (Zebul)
  1:30
• 4
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 1: Air. "Pour Forth No More Unheeded Prayr's" (Zebul)
  4:58
• 5
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 1: Chorus. "No More to Ammon's God and King"
  2:38
• 6
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 2: Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" (Zebul/Jephtha)
  1:05
• 7
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 2: Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace" (Jephtha)
  4:07
• 8
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 2: Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" (Storgè)
  0:30
• 9
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 2: Air. "In Gentle Murmurs Will Mourn" (Storgè)
  5:10
• 10
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Recitative. "Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis" (Hamor)
  0:51
• 11
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Air. "Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish" (Hamor)
  3:05
• 12
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" (Iphis)
  0:30
• 13
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Air: "Take the Heart You Foundly Gave" (Iphis)
  3:57
• 14
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Recitative. "I Go - My Soul Inspir'd by Thy Command" (Hamor)
  0:31
• 15
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 3: Duet. "These Labours Past, How Happy We" (Iphis/Hamor)
  5:47
• 16
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 4: Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" (Jephtha)
  0:56
• 17
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 4: Accompagnato. "If, Lord, Sustain'd by Thy Almighty Pow'r" (Jephtha) - Recitative. "'Tis Said. Attend, Ye Chiefs" (Jephtha)
  1:10
• 18
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 4: Chorus. "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"
  4:10
• 19
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 5: Recitative. "Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads" (Storgè)
  0:28
• 20
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 5: Air. "Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe" (Storgè)
  4:17
• 21
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 6: Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" (Iphis/Storgè)
  0:59
• 22
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 6: Air. "The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days" (Iphis)
  3:18
• 23
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 7: Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" (Zebul/Jephtha)
  0:29
• 24
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 1 Scene 7: Chorus. "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke"
  4:20
• 25
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy" (Hamor)
  1:19
• 26
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, Unbodied Forms"
  3:07
• 27
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Air. "Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending" (Hamor)
  4:33
• 28
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Recitative. "'Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens" (Iphis)
  0:23
• 29
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 1: Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute" (Iphis)
  4:19
• 30
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 2: Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" (Jephtha)
  0:33
• 31
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 2: Air. "His Mighty Arm" (Jephtha)
  5:26
• 32
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 2: Chorus. "In Glory High"
  2:24
• 33
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Symphony
  1:13
• 34
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" (Iphis)
  0:24
• 35
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Air. "Welcome, As the Cheerful Light" (Iphis) - Chorus. "Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire"
  3:57
• 36
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" (Jephtha)
  0:26
• 37
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Air. "Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb" (Jephtha)
  4:32
• 38
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative. "Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?" (Zebul/Jephtha)
  1:06
• 39
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso. "First Perish Thou - Let Other Creatures" (Storgè)
  2:14
• 40
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" (Hamor)
  0:23
• 41
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal" (Hamor)
  1:36
• 42
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 3: Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter!" (Storgè/Hamor/Jephtha/Zebul)
  2:47
• 43
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 4: Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" (Iphis)
  0:30
• 44
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 4: Accompagnato. "For Joys So Vast" (Iphis)
  0:49
• 45
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 4: Air. "Happy They!" (Iphis)
  3:40
• 46
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 4: Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still" (Jephtha)
  3:37
• 47
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 2 Scene 4: Chorus. "How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!
  7:09
• 48
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Arioso. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams" (Jephtha)
  2:40
• 49
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Accompagnato. "A Father, Off Ring Up" (Jephtha)
  0:26
• 50
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Air. "Waft Her, Angels" (Jephtha)
  4:06
• 51
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" (Iphis)
  0:35
• 52
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Air. "Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs" (Iphis)
  5:02
• 53
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Chorus. "Doubtful Fear and Reverend Awe" (Priests)
  3:43
• 54
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Symphony
  1:54
• 55
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" (Angel)
  1:10
• 56
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live" (Angel)
  4:42
• 57
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Arioso. "For Ever Blessed Be" (Jephtha)
  1:31
• 58
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Chorus. "Theme Sublime"
  3:25
• 59
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 1: Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" (Zebul)
  0:30
• 60
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Air. "Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train" (Zebul)
  2:16
• 61
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Recitative. "O Let Me Fold Thee" (Storgè)
  0:20
• 62
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind" (Storgè)
  1:56
• 63
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" (Hamor)
  0:21
• 64
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" (Iphis)
  0:15
• 65
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Quintet. "All That Is in Hamor Mine" (Iphis/Hamor/Storgè/Jephtha/Zebul)
  3:36
• 66
  Jeptha, HWV 70, Act 3 Scene 2: Chorus. "Ye House of Gilead"
  3:21