Handel: Jephtha
"Handel: Jephtha album by Fabio Biondi on
Archodia Music"
Release Date: 2011-03-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Symphony
Overture
Menuet
Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)
Air and Chorus. Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)
Accompagnato. It must be so, or these vile Ammonites (Zebul)
Recitative. Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)
Air. Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)
No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)
Air. Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)
Recitative. But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)
Recitative. Why Is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)
Air. Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)
Accompagnato and Arioso. First perish thou, and perish all the world! - Let other creatures (Storge)
Recitative. Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha (Storge)
Recitative. If such thy cruel purpose, lo, your friend (Hamor)
Air. In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)
Air. On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)
Recitative. Happy This embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)
Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
Air. Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)
Recitative. Such news flies swift (Iphis)
Recitative. Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)
Air. Happy they! (Iphis)
Accompagnato. Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness, child (Jephtha)
Air. Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)
How dark, O Lord, Are thy decrees! (Chorus)
Recitative. I go, my soul, inspir'd by thy command (Hamor)
Arioso. Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)
Duet. These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)
Air. Waft her, angels, through the skies (Jephtha)
Recitative. What mean these doubtful fancies of the brain? (Jephtha)
Accompagnato. Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne’er yet were stain'd (Iphis)
O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)
Air. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods (Iphis)
Recitative. Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)
Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)
Air. Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)
Recitative. Say, my dear mother, whence these piercing cries (Iphis, Storge)
Air. The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)
Recitative. Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)
When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)
Recitative. Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis (Hamor)
Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)
Air. Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)
Recitative. Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)
Air. Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)
Recitative. Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people (Jephtha)
Air. His mighty arm, with sudden blow (Jephtha)
In glory high, in might serene (Chorus)