Georg Friedrich Handel: Jephta – Ainsley

Jephta HWV 70 (Oratorium) (Gesamtaufnahme)
(Ouvertüre)
(Menuett)
Accompagnato: It must be so (1. Akt)
Arie: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr’s
Chor: No more to Ammon’s god and king
Rezitativ: But Jephtha comes
Arie: Virtue my soul shall still mebrace
Rezitativ: ‘Twill be a painful separation
Arie: In gentle murmurs will I mourn
Rezitativ: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis
Arie: Dull delay, in piercing anguish
Rezitativ: Ill suits the voice of love
Arie: Take the heart you fondly gave
Rezitativ: I go my soul
Duett: These labours past, how happy we
Rezitativ: What mean these doubtful fancies
Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain’d by thy almighty pow’r
Chor: O God, behold our sore distress
Rezitativ: Some dire event hangs o’er our heads
Arie: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe
Rezitativ: Say, my dear mother
Arie: The smiling dawn of happy days
Rezitativ: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king’s reply
Chor: When his loud voice in thunder spoke
Rezitativ: Glad tidings of great joy (2. Akt)
Chor: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms
Arie: Up the dreadful steep ascending
Rezitativ: ‘Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens
Arie: Tune the soft melodious lute
Rezitativ: Heav’n smiles once more
Arie: His mighty arm
Chor: In glory high
(Sinfonie)
Rezitativ: Hail, glorious conqueror!
Arie: Welcome, as the cheerful light
Rezitativ: Horror! confusion!
Arie: Open thy marvel jaws, o tomb
Rezitativ: Why is my brother thus afflicted?
Accompagnato: First perish thou – Let other creatures
Rezitativ: If such thy cruel purpose
Arie: On me let blind mistaken zeal
Quartett: O spare your daugher!
Rezitativ: Such news flies swift
Accompagnato: For joys so vast
Arie: Happy they!
Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still
Chor: How dark, o Lord, are thy decrees
Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams (3. Akt)
Accompagnato: A father, off ring up
Arie: Waft her, angels
Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests
Arie: Farewell, ye limpid springs
Chor: Doubtful fear and reverend awe
(Sinfonie)
Rezitativ: Rise, Jephtha
Arie: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live
Arioso: For ever blessed be
Chor: Theme sublime
Rezitativ: Let me congratulate
Arie: Laud her, all ye virgin train
Rezitativ: O let me fold thee
Arie: Sweet as sight to the blind
Rezitativ: With transport, Iphis
Rezitativ: My faithful Hamor
Quintett: All that is in Hamor mine
Chor: Ye house of Gilead

Ainsley, J.U., Oelze, C., Creed, U. / Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin

Reference: 0010572BC
Barcode: 0782124105723
Length: 2:39:35
Label: Berlin Classics