Album
Handel: Jephtha
George Frideric HandelFabio BiondiStavanger Symphony Orchestra
2011 · album · 50 tracks
Tracks
- 1Overture5:06
- 2Menuet1:22
- 3Accompagnato. It must be so, or these vile Ammonites (Zebul)1:37
- 4Air. Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)4:58
- 5No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)3:07
- 6Recitative. But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)0:57
- 7Air. Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)4:02
- 8Recitative. Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha (Storge)0:34
- 9Air. In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)4:32
- 10Recitative. Happy This embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)0:47
- 11Air. Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)2:38
- 12Recitative. Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)0:29
- 13Air. Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)3:08
- 14Recitative. I go, my soul, inspir'd by thy command (Hamor)0:27
- 15Duet. These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)4:26
- 16Recitative. What mean these doubtful fancies of the brain? (Jephtha)2:22
- 17O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)4:49
- 18Recitative. Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)0:32
- 19Air. Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)3:57
- 20Recitative. Say, my dear mother, whence these piercing cries (Iphis, Storge)0:55
- 21Air. The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)2:00
- 22Recitative. Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)0:36
- 23When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)4:23
- 24Recitative. Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis (Hamor)1:23
- 25Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)3:34
- 26Air. Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)4:55
- 27Recitative. Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)0:24
- 28Air. Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)3:37
- 29Recitative. Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people (Jephtha)0:41
- 30Air. His mighty arm, with sudden blow (Jephtha)5:19
- 31In glory high, in might serene (Chorus)2:59
- 1Symphony0:48
- 2Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)0:24
- 3Air and Chorus. Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)2:04
- 4Recitative. Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)0:27
- 5Air. Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)3:09
- 6Recitative. Why Is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)1:13
- 7Accompagnato and Arioso. First perish thou, and perish all the world! - Let other creatures (Storge)2:07
- 8Recitative. If such thy cruel purpose, lo, your friend (Hamor)0:24
- 9Air. On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)1:55
- 10Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)1:58
- 11Recitative. Such news flies swift (Iphis)1:29
- 12Air. Happy they! (Iphis)3:09
- 13Accompagnato. Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness, child (Jephtha)3:02
- 14How dark, O Lord, Are thy decrees! (Chorus)8:49
- 15Arioso. Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)2:23
- 16Air. Waft her, angels, through the skies (Jephtha)4:33
- 17Accompagnato. Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne’er yet were stain'd (Iphis)0:39
- 18Air. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods (Iphis)5:25
- 19Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)3:19