Handel : Jephtha

Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Accompagnato. "It must be so" - Air. "Pour forth no more" (Zebul) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "No more to Ammon's god and king" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "But Jephtha comes" - Air. "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Zebul, Jephtha) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke & Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "'Twill be a painful separation" - Air. "In gentle murmurs" (Storgè) [feat. Glenys Linos]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Happy this embassy" - Air. "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Ill suits the voice of love" - Air. "Take the heart" (Iphis) [feat. Elizabeth Gale]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "I go; my soul" - Duet. "These labours past" (Hamor, Iphis) [feat. Elizabeth Gale & Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "What mean these doubtful fancies" - Accompagnato. "If, Lord, susain'd" - Recitative. "'Tis said" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "O God, behold our sore distress" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Some dire event hangs" - Air. "Scenes of horror" (Storgè) [feat. Glenys Linos]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Say, my dear mother" - Air. "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Iphis, Storgè) [feat. Elizabeth Gale & Glenys Linos]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Such, Jeptha, was the haughty King's reply" (Zebul, Jephtha) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke & Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "When loud his voice in thunder spoke" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Glad tidings of great joy, dea Iphis" (Hamor) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Air. "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "'Tis well" - Air. "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis) [feat. Elizabeth Gale]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" - Air. "Freedom now once more" (Zebul) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" - Air. "His mighty arm" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "In glory high, in might serene" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Symphony

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Hail, glorious conqueror!" - Air and Chorus. "Welcome as the cheerful light" (Iphis, Virgins) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Elizabeth Gale & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Horror! confusion!" - Air. "Open thy marble jaws" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Why is my brother thus afflicted?" (Zebul, Jephtha) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke & Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato and Air. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè) [feat. Glenys Linos]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "If such thy cruel purpose" - Air. "On me let blind mistaken zeal" (Hamor) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Quartet. "O spare your daughter" (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul) [feat. Glenys Linos, Paul Esswood, Thomas Thomaschke & Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Such news fly swift" (Iphis) [feat. Elizabeth Gale]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato. "Deeper and deeper still" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "Hide thou thy hated beams - Accompagnato. "A father, offering up" - Air. "Waft her, angels" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ye sacred priests" - Air. "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Iphis) [feat. Elizabeth Gale]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" (Priests) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "And they determin'd will declare" (Priests) - Symphony [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" - Air. "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" (Angel) [feat. Gabriele Sima]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha) [feat. Werner Hollweg]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Theme sublime of endless praise" (Priests) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "Let me congratulate this happy turn" - Air. "Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Zebul) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" - Air. "Sweet as sight to the blind" (Storgè) [feat. Glenys Linos]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "With transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" (Hamor) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" - Air. "Freely I to Heaven resign" - Quintet. "All that is in Hamor" (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Zebul, Jephtha) [feat. Elizabeth Gale]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]