Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Jephtha: Ouverture
    5:29
  • 2
    Jephtha: Menuet
    1:37
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act I. Accompagnato "It must be so" (Zebul)
    1:30
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "Pour forth no more" (Zebul)
    4:58
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act I. Chorus: "No more to Ammon's god and king"
    2:38
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "But Jephtha comes" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    1:05
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Jephtha)
    4:06
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Twill be a painful separation" (Storge)
    0:29
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" (Storge)
    5:09
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Happy this embassy" (Hamor)
    0:51
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor)
    3:05
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Ill suits the voice of love" (Iphis)
    0:30
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "Take the heart you fondly gave" (Iphis)
    3:57
  • 14
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "I go, my soul" (Hamor)
    0:30
  • 15
    Jephtha: Act I. Duet "These labours past, how happy we" (Iphis, Hamor)
    5:46
  • 16
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "What mean these doubtful fancies" (Jephtha)
    0:56
  • 17
    Jephtha: Act I. Accompagnato "If, Lord, sustained" (Jephtha)
    1:09
  • 18
    Jephtha: Act I. Chorus "O God, behold our sore distress"
    4:10
  • 19
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Some dire event" (Storge)
    0:28
  • 20
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Storge)
    4:17
  • 21
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Say, my dear mother" (Iphis, Storge)
    0:58
  • 22
    Jephtha: Act I. Air "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Iphis)
    3:18
  • 23
    Jephtha: Act I. Recitative "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    0:28
  • 24
    Jephtha: Act I. Chorus "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
    4:20
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Glad things of great joy" (Hamor)
    1:19
  • 2
    Jephtha: Act II. Chorus "Cherub and Seraphim"
    3:06
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act II. Air "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor)
    4:32
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Tis well, haste, haste, ye maidens" (Iphis)
    0:22
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act II: Air "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis)
    4:19
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Heav'n smiles once more" (Jephtha)
    0:33
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act II. Air "His mighty arm" (Jephtha)
    5:25
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act II. Chorus: "In glory high"
    2:23
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act II. Symphony
    1:12
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Hail, glorious conqueror!" (Iphis)
    0:23
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act II. Air And Chorus: "Welcome, as the cheerful light" (Iphis)
    3:56
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Horror! confusion!" (Jephtha)
    0:25
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act II. Air "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" (Jephtha)
    4:32
  • 14
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Why is my brother thus afflicted?" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    1:06
  • 15
    Jephtha: Act II. Accompagnato and Arioso "First perish thou" (Storge)
    2:13
  • 16
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "If such thy cruel purpose" (Hamor)
    0:23
  • 17
    Jephtha: Act II. Air "On me let blind mistake zeal" (Hamor)
    1:35
  • 18
    Jephtha: Act II. Quartet "O spare your daughter!" (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
    2:47
  • 19
    Jephtha: Act II. Recitative "Such news flies swift" (Iphis)
    0:29
  • 20
    Jephtha: Act II. Accompagnato "For joys so vast" (Iphis)
    0:49
  • 21
    Jephtha: Act II. Air "Happy they!" (Iphis)
    3:40
  • 22
    Jephtha: Act II. Accompagnato "Deeper and deeper still" (Jephtha)
    3:37
  • 23
    Jephtha: Act II. Chorus "How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees!"
    7:08
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Jephtha: Act III. Arioso "Hide thou thy hated beams" (Jephtha)
    2:39
  • 2
    Jephtha: Act III. Accompagnato "A father, Off'ring up" (Jephtha)
    0:26
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act III. Air "Waft her, angels" (Jephtha)
    4:05
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act III. Accompagnato "Ye sacred priests" (Iphis)
    0:35
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act III. Air "Farewell, ye limpid springs" (Iphis)
    5:02
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act III. Chorus "Doubtful fear and reverend awe" (Priests)
    3:42
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act III. Symphony
    1:53
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act III. Recitative "Rise, Jephtha" (Angel)
    1:10
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act III. Air "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" (Angel)
    4:41
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act III. Arioso "For ever blessed be" (Jephtha)
    1:30
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act III. Chorus "Theme Sublime"
    3:25
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act III. Recitative "Let me congratulate" (Zebul)
    0:29
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act III. Air "Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Zebul)
    2:15
  • 14
    Jephtha: Act III. Recitative "O let me fold thee" (Storge)
    0:19
  • 15
    Jephtha: Act III. Air "Sweet as sight to the blind" (Storge)
    1:55
  • 16
    Jephtha: Act III. Recitative "With transport, Iphis" (Hamor)
    0:20
  • 17
    Jephtha: Act III. Recitative "My faithful Hamor" (Iphis)
    0:14
  • 18
    Jephtha: Act III. Quintet "All that is in Hamor mine"
    3:36
  • 19
    Jephtha: Act III. Chorus "Ye house of Gilead"
    3:21

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