Handel: Jephtha

Fabio Biondi, havard Stensvold, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Collegium Vocale Gent, Audience, Elizabeth Rapp, Elisabeth Jansson, Mona Julsrud, Marianne Beate Kielland & James Gilchrist

Tracks

Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture

Jephtha, HWV 70: Menuet

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: It must be so, or these vile Ammonites (Zebul)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: Air: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Recitative: But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha (Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Air: Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Recitative: I go, my soul, inspir'd by thy command (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Duet: These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 4: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies of the brain? (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 4: O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 5: Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 6: Recitative: Say, my dear mother, whence these piercing cries (Iphis, Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 6: Air: The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 7: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 7: When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Air: Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Air: Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: Air: His mighty arm, with sudden blow (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: In glory high, in might serene (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Symphony

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso: First perish thou, and perish all the world! - Let other creatures (Storge)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose, lo, your friend (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air: On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Such news flies swift (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Air: Happy they! (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness, child (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act III Scene 1: Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act III Scene 1: Air: Waft her, angels, through the skies (Jephtha)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne’er yet were stain'd (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act III Scene 1: Air: Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods (Iphis)

Jephtha, HWV 70: Act III Scene 1: Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)