Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Jephtha: Overture / Menuet
    George Frideric Handel
    5:13
  • 2
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:23
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:51
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "No more to Ammon's god and king"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:55
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "But Jephtha comes"
    George Frideric Handel
    0:53
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:07
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" / "In gentle murmurs will I mourn"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:59
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" / "Dull delay, in piercing anguish"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:50
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" / "Take the heart you fondly gave"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:14
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "I go, My soul, inspir'd by thy command" / "These labours past, how happy we!"
    George Frideric Handel
    7:28
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "What mean these doubtful fancies"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:57
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "O God, behold our sore distress"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:35
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 5. "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" / "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:57
  • 14
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "Say, my dear mother"
    George Frideric Handel
    0:53
  • 15
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "The smiling dawn of happy days"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:33
  • 16
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply"
    George Frideric Handel
    0:26
  • 17
    Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:39
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:14
  • 2
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:12
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Up the dreadful steep ascending"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:15
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" / "Tune the soft melodious lute"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:42
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 2. "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" / "His mighty arm, with sudden blow"
    George Frideric Handel
    6:28
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "In glory high, in might serene"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:32
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. Symphony / "Hail glorious conqueror!"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:30
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Welcome as the cheerful light"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:52
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Horror! confusion!" / "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:59
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Why is my brother thus afflicted"
    George Frideric Handel
    0:58
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:20
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "If such thy cruel purpose" / "On me let blind mistaken zeal"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:48
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "O spare your daughter"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:13
  • 14
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Such news flies swift"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:21
  • 15
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Happy they! this vital breath"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:32
  • 16
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Deeper, and deeper still"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:27
  • 17
    Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
    George Frideric Handel
    8:04
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:03
  • 2
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Waft her, angels, through the skies"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:30
  • 3
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Ye sacred priests" / "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"
    George Frideric Handel
    6:27
  • 4
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:50
  • 5
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. Symphony
    George Frideric Handel
    2:44
  • 6
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:01
  • 7
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:00
  • 8
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:29
  • 9
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Theme sublime of endless praise"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:23
  • 10
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "Let me congratulate this happy turn" / "Laud her, all ye virgin train"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:22
  • 11
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" / "Sweet as sight to the blind"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:16
  • 12
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" / "All that is in Hamor mine"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:37
  • 13
    Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:00
  • 14
    [applause]
    [no artist]
    0:18

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