Album NL 2003 on Brilliant Classics label
Classical (Baroque, Oratorio)
Oratorio in three acts (HWV 70). Released in a double-CD jewelcase. Individual catalog numbers of the CDs are 99965/1 to 99965/3. Recorded in 1994.
Georg Friedrich Händel , 1685-1759 GB album by | |
Michael George voc, bass vocals, zebul | |
RIAS-Kammerchor , US choir | |
Marcus Creed p, GB conductor | |
Axel Köhler voc, *1959 DE countertenor vocals, hamor | |
Catherine Denley voc, sss, GB mezzo-soprano vocals, storge | |
Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin , DE orchestra | |
Julia Gooding voc, GB soprano vocals, angel | |
Christiane Oelze voc, *1963 DE soprano vocals, iphis | |
John Mark Ainsley voc, *1963 GB tenor vocals, jephtha |
Donald Teeters liner notes |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Overture | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:30 | |
2 | Menuet | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:37 | |
3 | Act 1 | Georg Friedrich Händel | ||
4 | Accompagnato (Zebul): It Must Be So | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:30 | |
5 | Air (Zebul): Pour Forth No More | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:58 | |
6 | Chorus: No More To Ammon's God And King | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:39 | |
7 | Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): But Jephtha Comes | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:05 | |
8 | Air (Jephtha): Virtue On My Soul Shall Still Embrace | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:07 | |
9 | Recitative (Storge): Twill Be A Painful Separation | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:30 | |
10 | Air (Storge): In Getle Murmurs Will I Mourn | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:10 | |
11 | Recitative (Hamor): Happy This Embassy | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:51 | |
12 | Air (Hamor): Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:05 | |
13 | Recitative (Iphis): Ill Suits The Voice Of Love | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:30 | |
14 | Air (Iphis): Take The Heart You Fondly Gave | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:57 | |
15 | Recitative (Hamor): I Go, My Soul | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:31 | |
16 | Duet (Iphis, Hamor): These Labours Past, How Happy We | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:47 | |
17 | Recitative (Jephtha): What Mean These Doubtful Fancies | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:56 | |
18 | Accompagnetto (Jephtha): If, Lord, Sustained | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:10 | |
19 | Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:10 | |
20 | Recitative (Storge): Some Dire Event | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:28 | |
21 | Air (Storge): Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:17 | |
22 | Recitative (Iphis, Storge): Say, My Dear Mother | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:59 | |
23 | Air (Iphis): The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:18 | |
24 | Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Such, Jephtha, WAs The Haughty King's Reply | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:29 | |
25 | Chorus: When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:20 | |
26 | Act 2 | Georg Friedrich Händel | ||
27 | Recitative (Hamor): Glad Things Of Great Joy | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:19 | |
28 | Chorus: Cherub And Seraphim | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:07 | |
29 | Air (Hamor): Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:33 | |
30 | Recitative (Iphis): Tis Well, Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:23 | |
31 | Air (Iphis): Tune The Soft Melodious Lute | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:19 | |
32 | Recitative (Jephtha): Heav'n Smiles Once More | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:33 | |
33 | Air (Jephtha): His Mighty Arm | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:26 | |
34 | Chorus: In Glory High | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:24 | |
35 | Symphony | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:13 | |
36 | Recitative (Iphis): Hail, Glorious Conqueror | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:24 | |
37 | Air (Iphis) And Chorus: Welcome, As The Cheerful Light | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:57 | |
38 | Recitative (Jephtha): Horror! Confusion! | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:26 | |
39 | Air (Jephtha): Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:32 | |
40 | Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:06 | |
41 | Accompagnato And Arioso (Storge): First Perish Thou | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:07 | |
42 | Recitative (Hamor): If Such Thy Cruel Purpose | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:23 | |
43 | Air (Hamor): On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:36 | |
44 | Quartet (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul): O Spare Your Daughter! | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:47 | |
45 | Recitative (Iphis): Such News Flies Swift | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:30 | |
46 | Accompagnato (Iphis): For Joys So Vast | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:49 | |
47 | Air (Iphis): Happy They! | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:40 | |
48 | Accompagnato (Jephtha): Deeper And Deeper Still | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:37 | |
49 | Chorus: How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees! | Georg Friedrich Händel | 7:09 | |
50 | Act 3 | Georg Friedrich Händel | ||
51 | Arioso (Jephtha): Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:40 | |
52 | Accompagnato (Jephtha): A Father, Off'ring Up | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:26 | |
53 | Air (Jephtha): Waft Her, Angels | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:06 | |
54 | Accompagnato (Iphis): Ye Sacred Priests | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:35 | |
55 | Air (Iphis): Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:02 | |
56 | Chorus (Priests): Doubtful Fear And Reverend Awe | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:42 | |
57 | Symphony | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:54 | |
58 | Recitative (Angel): Rise, Jephtha | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:10 | |
59 | Air (Angel): Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:42 | |
60 | Arioso (Jephtha): For Ever Blessed Be | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:31 | |
61 | Chorus: Theme Sublime | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:25 | |
62 | Recitative (Zebul): Let Me Congratulate | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:30 | |
63 | Air (Zebul): Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:16 | |
64 | Recitative (Storge): O Let Me Fold Thee | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:20 | |
65 | Air (Storge): Sweet As Sight To The Blind | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:56 | |
66 | Recitative (Hamor): With Transport, Iphis | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:21 | |
67 | Recitative (Iphis): My Faithful Hamor | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:15 | |
68 | Duet (Hamor, Iphis) And Quintet (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul): All That Is In Hamor Mine | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:36 | |
69 | Chorus: Ye House Of Gilead | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:21 |
Georg Friedrich Händel - Jephtha US 1969 Classical |