Jephtha

1989 · Music · Händel, Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Ruth Holton, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

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Nigel Robson

Tracklist

  1. Jephtha: Overture / Menuet
  2. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"
  3. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"
  4. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "No more to Ammon's god and king"
  5. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "But Jephtha comes"
  6. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"
  7. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" / "In gentle murmurs will I mourn"
  8. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" / "Dull delay, in piercing anguish"
  9. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" / "Take the heart you fondly gave"
  10. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "I go, My soul, inspir'd by thy command" / "These labours past, how happy we!"
  11. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "What mean these doubtful fancies"
  12. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "O God, behold our sore distress"
  13. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 5. "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" / "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"
  14. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "Say, my dear mother"
  15. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "The smiling dawn of happy days"
  16. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply"
  17. Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
  18. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"
  19. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
  20. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Up the dreadful steep ascending"
  21. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" / "Tune the soft melodious lute"
  22. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 2. "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" / "His mighty arm, with sudden blow"
  23. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "In glory high, in might serene"
  24. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. Symphony / "Hail glorious conqueror!"
  25. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Welcome as the cheerful light"
  26. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Horror! confusion!" / "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"
  27. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Why is my brother thus afflicted"
  28. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!"
  29. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "If such thy cruel purpose" / "On me let blind mistaken zeal"
  30. Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "O spare your daughter"