Handel : Jephtha

1. 1
   Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet
   6:52
2. 2
   Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Accompagnato. "It must be so" - Air. "Pour forth no more" (Zebul)
   6:45
3. 3
   Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus]
   2:46
4. 4
   Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha]
   5:07
5. 5
   Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "'Twill be a painful separation" - Air. "In gentle murmurs" (Storgè)
   5:55
6. 6
   Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Happy this embassy" - Air. "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor)
   5:07
7. 7
   Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Ill suits the voice of love" - Air. "Take the heart" (Iphis)
   4:26
8. 8
   Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "I go; my soul" - Duet. "These labours past" (Hamor, Iphis)
   6:53
9. 9
   Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha]
   1:48
10. 10
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus]
    4:06
11. 11
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Some dire event hangs" - Air. "Scenes of horror" (Storgè)
    5:12
12. 12
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis]
    4:13
13. 13
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha]
    0:30
14. 14
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus]
    4:29
15. 15
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Glad tidings of great joy, dea Iphis" (Hamor)
    1:05
16. 16
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus]
    3:36
17. 17
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Air. "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor)
    4:57
18. 18
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "'Tis well" - Air. "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis)
    4:37
19. 19
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" - Air. "Freedom now once more" (Zebul)
    3:44
20. 20
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" - Air. "His mighty arm" (Jephtha)
    6:30
21. 21
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus]
    2:24
22. 22
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Symphony
    1:23
23. 23
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus]
    4:55
24. 24
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha]
    4:18
25. 25
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha]
    1:11
26. 26
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato and Air. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè)
    2:51
27. 27
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor]
    1:52
28. 28
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha]
    2:33
29. 29
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Such news fly swift" (Iphis)
    5:18
30. 30
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha]
    3:40
31. 31
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus]
    6:43
32. 32
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "Hide thou thy hated beams - Accompagnato. "A father, offering up" - Air. "Waft her, angels" (Jephtha)
    6:20
33. 33
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis]
    5:40
34. 34
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus]
    3:07
35. 35
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus]
    1:53
36. 36
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel]
    5:54
37. 37
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha)
    1:48
38. 38
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus]
    3:09
39. 39
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul]
    2:39
40. 40
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè]
    2:32
41. 41
    Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "With transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" (Hamor)
    7:36
42. 42
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis]
    5:59
43. 43
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus]
    3:26

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