Georg Friedrich Händel
Jephtha (English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir feat. conductor: John Eliot Gardiner)
1989

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Jephtha: Overture / Menuet 5:13
2 Jephtha, Act I Scene 1: It must be so: or these vile Ammonites 1:23
3 Jephtha, Act I Scene 1: Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs 2:51
4 Jephtha, Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king 2:55
5 Jephtha, Act I Scene 2: But Jephtha comes 0:53
6 Jephtha, Act I Scene 2: Virtue my soul shall still embrace 4:07
7 Jephtha, Act I Scene 2: 'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha / In gentle murmurs will I mourn 4:59
8 Jephtha, Act I Scene 3: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis / Dull delay, in piercing anguish 3:50
9 Jephtha, Act I Scene 3: Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls / Take the heart you fondly gave 4:14
10 Jephtha, Act I Scene 3: I go, My soul, inspir'd by thy command / These labours past, how happy we! 7:28
11 Jephtha, Act I Scene 4: What mean these doubtful fancies 1:57
12 Jephtha, Act I Scene 4: O God, behold our sore distress 4:35
13 Jephtha, Act I Scene 5: Some dire event hangs o'er our heads / Scenes of horror, scenes of woe 4:57
14 Jephtha, Act I Scene 6: Say, my dear mother 0:53
15 Jephtha, Act I Scene 6: The smiling dawn of happy days 3:33
16 Jephtha, Act I Scene 7: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply 0:26
17 Jephtha, Act I Scene 7: When his loud voice in thunder spoke 4:39
Total time 58:53
CD 2
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Jephtha, Act II Scene 1: Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis 1:14
2 Jephtha, Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms 3:12
3 Jephtha, Act II Scene 1: Up the dreadful steep ascending 4:15
4 Jephtha, Act II Scene 1: 'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens / Tune the soft melodious lute 4:42
5 Jephtha, Act II Scene 2: Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people / His mighty arm, with sudden blow 6:28
6 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: In glory high, in might serene 2:32
7 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: Symphony / Hail glorious conqueror! 1:30
8 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: Welcome as the cheerful light 3:52
9 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: Horror! confusion! / Open thy marble jaws, O tomb 4:59
10 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: Why is my brother thus afflicted 0:58
11 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: First perish thou, and perish all the world! 2:20
12 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: If such thy cruel purpose / On me let blind mistaken zeal 1:48
13 Jephtha, Act II Scene 3: O spare your daughter 3:13
14 Jephtha, Act II Scene 4: Such news flies swift 1:21
15 Jephtha, Act II Scene 4: Happy they! this vital breath 3:32
16 Jephtha, Act II Scene 4: Deeper, and deeper still 3:27
17 Jephtha, Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees! 8:04
Total time 57:28
CD 3
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun 3:03
2 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Waft her, angels, through the skies 4:30
3 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Ye sacred priests / Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods 6:27
4 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe 3:50
5 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Symphony 2:44
6 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests 1:01
7 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Happy, Iphis shalt thou live 3:60
8 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: For ever blessed be Thy holy name 1:29
9 Jephtha, Act III Scene 1: Theme sublime of endless praise 3:23
10 Jephtha, Act III Scene 2: Let me congratulate this happy turn / Laud her, all ye virgin train 2:22
11 Jephtha, Act III Scene 2: O let me fold thee in a mother's arms / Sweet as sight to the blind 2:16
12 Jephtha, Act III Scene 2: My faithful Hamor, may that Providence / All that is in Hamor mine 3:37
13 Jephtha, Act III Scene 2: Ye house of Gilead, with one voice 2:60
14 [applause] 0:18
Total time 41:60



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