Handel: Jeptha

Album by Ruth Holton.

Release date: 1989-01-01

Tracks (48)

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

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