Handel: Jephtha

1. 1
   Overture - Menuet
   5:11
2. 2
   Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"
   1:23
3. 3
   Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"
   2:51
4. 4
   Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "No more to Ammon's god and king"
   2:55
5. 5
   Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "But Jephta comes"
   0:53
6. 6
   Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"
   4:07
7. 7
   "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta...In gentle murmurs will I mourn"
   4:59
8. 8
   "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis...Dull delay, in piercing anguish"
   3:50
9. 9
   "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls...Take the heart you fondly gave"
   4:14
10. 10
    "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command...These labours past, how happy we!"
    7:28
11. 11
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "What mean these doubtful fancies"
    1:57
12. 12
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "O God, behold our sore distress"
    4:34
13. 13
    "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads...Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"
    4:57
14. 14
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "Say, my dear mother"
    0:53
15. 15
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "The smiling dawn of happy days"
    3:33
16. 16
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"
    0:26
17. 17
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1 - "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
    4:39
18. 18
    "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"
    1:14
19. 19
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
    3:12
20. 20
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Up the dreadful steep ascending"
    4:15
21. 21
    "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens...Tune the soft melodious lute"
    4:42
22. 22
    "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"
    6:28
23. 23
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "In glory high, in might serene"
    2:32
24. 24
    Handel: Jephtha / Act 2 - Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"
    1:30
25. 25
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Welcome as the cheerful light"
    3:52
26. 26
    "Horror! confusion!...Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"
    4:59
27. 27
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Why is my brother thus afflicted"
    0:58
28. 28
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "First perish thou, and perish all the world"
    2:20
29. 29
    "If such thy cruel purpose...On me let blind mistaken zeal"
    1:48
30. 30
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "O spare your daughter"
    3:13
31. 31
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Such news flies swift"
    1:21
32. 32
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Happy they! this vital breath"
    3:30
33. 33
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "Deeper, and deeper still"
    3:26
34. 34
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2 - "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
    8:04
35. 35
    "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"
    3:03
36. 36
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Waft her, angels, through the skies"
    4:29
37. 37
    "Ye sacred priests...Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"
    6:27
38. 38
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
    3:50
39. 39
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - Symphony
    2:44
40. 40
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"
    1:01
41. 41
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"
    4:00
42. 42
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"
    1:29
43. 43
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Theme sublime of endless praise"
    3:23
44. 44
    "Let me congratulate this happy turn...Laud her, all ye virgin train"
    2:22
45. 45
    "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms...Sweet as sight
    2:16
46. 46
    "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence...All that is in Hamor mine"
    3:37
47. 47
    Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3 - "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
    3:00
48. 48
    Applause
    0:18

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