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Jephtha HWV 70

Text: Thomas Morell
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen Orchestra, The Sixteen, Matthew Brook (Bass-baritone), James Gilchrist (Tenor), Susan Bickley (Mezzo Soprano), Robin Blaze (Countertenor), Sophie Bevan (Soprano), Grace Davidson (Soprano)
2014 - 2014, Kilburn, London, Augustine's Church, Kilburn
44 Tracks, 2:48:10
    • Overture
      07:31

  • Act I

    • 1. Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" - Air. "Pour Forth No More"
      04:18
    • 2. "No More to Ammon's God and King"
      02:44
    • 3. Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" - Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace"
      04:45
    • 4. Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" - Air. "In Gentle Murmurs"
      05:01
    • 5. Recitative. "Happy This Embassy" - Air. "Dull Delay"
      03:44
    • 6. Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" - Air. "Take the Heart"
      03:37
    • 7. Recitative. "I Go; My Soul" - Duet. "These Labors Past"
      06:40
    • 8. Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" - Accompagnato. "If, Lord" - Recitative. "'Tis Said"
      02:00
    • 9. "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"
      04:17
    • 10. Recitative. "Some Dire Event" - Air. "Scenes of Horror"
      04:57
    • 11. Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" - Air. "The Smiling Dawn"
      03:43
    • 12. Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" - "When His Loud Voice Spoke in Thunder"
      05:14

  • Act II

    • 1. Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy to Thee"
      01:19
    • 2. "Cherub and Seraphim"
      03:17
    • 3. Air. "'Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending"
      04:08
    • 4. Recitative. "'Tis Well" - Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute"
      05:13
    • 5. Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" - Air. "His Mighty Arm"
      05:56
    • 6. "In Glory High, in Might Serene"
      02:31
    • 7. Symphony
      01:08
    • 8. Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" - Air. "Welcome as the Cheerful Light"
      04:19
    • 9. Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" - Air. "Open thy marble jaws"
      04:52
    • 10. Recitative. "Why is My Brother Thus Afflicted?"
      01:08
    • 11. Accompagnato and Air. "First Perish Thou"
      02:19
    • 12. Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" - Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal"
      02:10
    • 13. Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter"
      03:12
    • 14. Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" - Accompagnato. "For Joys so Vast"
      01:16
    • 15. Air. "Happy They; This Vital Breath"
      03:51
    • 16. Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still"
      03:17
    • 17. "How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees"
      07:27

  • Act III

    • 1. Air. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, in Clouds"
      02:43
    • 2. Accompagnato. "A Father Off'ring Up" - Air. "Waft Her, Angels"
      05:18
    • 3. Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" - Air. "Fairwell, ye Limpid Springs and Floods"
      05:33
    • 4. "Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe"
      03:56
    • 5. Sinfonia
      02:40
    • 6. Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" - Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live"
      05:15
    • 7. Air. "For Ever Blessed by Thy Holy Name"
      01:01
    • 8. "Theme Sublime of Endless Praise"
      03:16
    • 9. Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" - Air. "Laud Her, all ye Virgin Train"
      02:39
    • 10. Recitative. "Oh, Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother's Arms" - Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind"
      02:47
    • 11. Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heav'n's All-Ruling Pow'r"
      05:26
    • 12. Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" - Quintet. "All That is in Hamor is Mine"
      03:51
    • 13. "Ye House of Gilead, With One Voice"
      03:50

  • Appendix

    • Recitative. "Again Heav'n Smiles" - Air. "Freedom Now"
      04:01