Jephtha

Release by Handel; Rolfe Johnson, Marshall, Hodgson, Esswood, Kirkby, Sir Neville Marriner

Track list

CD 1

=> 1 Jephtha, Act I: No. 1. Overture (3:50)
=> 2 Jephtha, Act I: No. 2. Menuet (1:43)
=> 3 Jephtha, Act I: No. 3. Recitative: It Must Be So – or These Vile Ammonites (Zebul) (1:26)
=> 4 Jephtha, Act I: No. 4. Air: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray’Rs (Zebul) (3:15)
=> 5 Jephtha, Act I: No. 5. Chorus: No More to Ammon’s God and King (2:57)
=> 6 Jephtha, Act I: No. 6. Recitative: But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heaven, Assist Our Plea (Zebul) (1:00)
=> 7 Jephtha, Act I: No. 7. Air: Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace (Jephtha) (4:04)
=> 8 Jephtha, Act I: No. 8. Recitative: ’Twill Be a Painful Separation, Jephtha (Storgè) / No. 9. Air: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn (Storgè) (5:17)
=> 9 Jephtha, Act I: No. 10. Recitative: Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis (Hamor) / No. 11. Air: Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish (Hamor) (4:47)
=> 10 Jephtha, Act I: No. 12. Recitative: Ill Suits the Voice of Love When Glory Calls (Iphis) / No. 13. Air: Take the Heart You Fondly Gave (Iphis) (5:00)
=> 11 Jephtha, Act I: No. 14. Recitative: I Go. My Soul, Inspir’d by Thy Command (Hamor) / No. 15. Duet: These Labours Past, How Happy We! (Iphis, Hamor) (6:40)
=> 12 Jephtha, Act I: No. 16. Recitative: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies of the Brain? (Jephtha) / Accompagnato: If, Lord, Sustained by Thy Almighty Pow’r (Jephtha) (1:29)
=> 13 Jephtha, Act I: Accompagnato: ’Tis Said (Jephtha) / No. 17. Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress (4:42)
=> 14 Jephtha, Act I: No. 18. Recitative: Some Dire Event Hands O’Er Our Heads (Storgè) / No. 19. Air: Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe (Storgè) (5:13)
=> 15 Jephtha, Act I: No. 20. Recitative: Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries (Iphis) (0:51)
=> 16 Jephtha, Act I: No. 21. Air: The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days (Iphis) (3:01)
=> 17 Jephtha, Act I: No. 22. Recitative: Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King’s Reply (Zebul) / No. 23. Chorus: When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke (5:14)

CD 2

=> 1 Jephtha, Act II: No. 24. Recitative: Glad Tidings of Great Joy (Hamor) (1:10)
=> 2 Jephtha, Act II: No. 25. Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim (3:12)
=> 3 Jephtha, Act II: No. 26. Air: Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending (Hamor) (5:27)
=> 4 Jephtha, Act II: No. 27. Recitative: ’Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens (Iphis) / No. 28. Air: Tune the Soft Melodious Lute (Iphis) (5:06)
=> 5 Jephtha, Act II: No. 29. Recitative: Again Heav’n Smiles on His Repentant People (Zebul) / No. 30. Air: Freedom Now Once More Possessing (Zebul) (4:05)
=> 6 Jephtha, Act II: No. 31. Recitative: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant (Jephtha) / No. 32. Air: His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow (Fephtha) (6:04)
=> 7 Jephtha, Act II: No. 33. Chorus: In Glory High, in Might Serene (2:25)
=> 8 Jephtha, Act II: No. 34. Symphony (1:18)
=> 9 Jephtha, Act II: No. 35. Recitative: Hail, Glorious Conqueror (Iphis) / No. 36. Air: Welcome as the Cheerful Light… Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire (Iphis, Chorus of Boys) (4:02)
=> 10 Jephtha, Act II: No. 37. Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha) / No. 38. Air: Open Thy Marble Jaws, o Tomb (Jephtha) (4:50)
=> 11 Jephtha, Act II: No. 39. Recitative: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? (Zebul) (1:14)
=> 12 Jephtha, Act II: No. 40. Concitato: First Perish Thou, and Perish All the World! (Storgè) / Air: Let Other Creatures Die (Storgè) (2:13)
=> 13 Jephtha, Act II: No. 41. Recitative: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose (Hamor) / No. 42. Air: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal (Hamor) (1:51)
=> 14 Jephtha, Act II: No. 43. Quartet: O Spare Your Daughter (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha) (2:40)
=> 15 Jephtha, Act II: No. 44. Recitative: Such News Flies Swift (Iphis) / No. 45. Air: Happy They! This Vital Breath (Iphis) (4:12)
=> 16 Jephtha, Act II: No. 46. Accompagnato: Deeper, and Deeper Still (Jephtha) (3:23)
=> 17 Jephtha, Act II: No. 47. Chorus: How Dark, o Lord, Are Thy Decrees (8:56)

CD 3

=> 1 Jephtha, Act III: No. 48. Accompagnato: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, o Sun (Jephtha) / Recitative: A Father, Offering Up His Only Child (/Ephtha) (2:55)
=> 2 Jephtha, Act III: No. 49. Air: Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies (Jephtha) (4:48)
=> 3 Jephtha, Act III: No. 50. Accompagnato: Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne’er Yet (Iphis) / No. 51. Air: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs and Floods (Iphis) (6:02)
=> 4 Jephtha, Act III: No. 52. Chorus: Doubtful Fear and Rev’rent Awe (5:00)
=> 5 Jephtha, Act III: No. 53. Symphony (1:28)
=> 6 Jephtha, Act III: No. 54. Recitative: Rise, Jephtha, and Ye Rev’rend Priests (Angel) (1:11)
=> 7 Jephtha, Act III: No. 55. Air: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live (Angel) (4:43)
=> 8 Jephtha, Act III: No. 56. Arioso: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name (Jephtha) (1:50)
=> 9 Jephtha, Act III: No. 57. Chorus: Theme Sublime of Endless Praise (3:10)
=> 10 Jephtha, Act III: No. 58. Recitative: Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn (Zebul) / No. 59. Air: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train (Zebul) (1:44)
=> 11 Jephtha, Act III: No. 60. Recitative: O Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother’s Arms (Storgè) / No. 61. Air: Sweet as Sight to the Blind (Storgè) (2:32)
=> 12 Jephtha, Act III: No. 62. Recitative: With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety (Hamor) / No. 63. Air: ’Tis Heaven’s All-Ruling Pow’r (Hamor) (5:41)
=> 13 Jephtha, Act III: No. 64. Recitative: My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence (Iphis) / No. 65. Quintet: All That Is in Hamor Mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul) (4:21)
=> 14 Jephtha, Act III: No. 66. Chorus: Ye House of Gilead (3:50)
=> 15 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Sinfonia / Chorus: In the Lord I Put My Trust (8:21)
=> 16 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: God is a Constant Sure Defence (tenor) (2:40)
=> 17 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Behold, the Wicked Bend Their Bow (2:51)
=> 18 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: But God, Who Hears the Suff’ring Poor (tenor) (2:23)
=> 19 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Snares, Fire and Brimstone (1:56)
=> 20 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Solo: The Righteous Lord Will Righteous Deeds (tenor) (2:21)
=> 21 Chandos Anthem no. 2: Chorus: Then Shall My Song, With Praise Inspir’d (2:39)

Labels

=> London Classics (“LONDON” in white uppercase on a blue-over-red rectangular block; until 1999, for US/CA releases only)

425 701-2

Release events

1990 United States

Relations

liner notes

=> 🧑 Jane Glover

liner notes

=> 🧑 Anthony Hicks

1990 copyright

=> 🏷️ The Decca Record Company Limited

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