Handel: Jephtha (CD1) (2014)

The Sixteen Harry Christophers - Handel: Jephtha (CD1)

1.		JEPHTHA, Oratorio In Three Acts, HWV 70 - ACT ONE. Overture		7:30	...
2.		Scene 1. Recitative & Air (Zebul): 'It Must Be So, Or These Vile Ammonites'... 'Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs'		4:17	...
3.		Scene 1. Chorus Of Israelites: 'No More To Ammon's God And King'		2:43	...
4.		Scene 2. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): 'But Jephtha Comes' - Air (Jephtha): 'Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace'		4:45	...
5.		Scene 2. Recitative & Air (StorgA¨): ''Twill Be A Painful Separation'... 'In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn'		5:01	...
6.		Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Hamor): 'Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis'... 'Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish'		3:44	...
7.		Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Iphis): 'Ill Suits The Voice Of Love When Glory Calls'... 'Take The Heart You Fondly Gave'		3:36	...
8.		Scene 3. Recitative (Hamor): 'I Go: My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command' - Duet (Iphis, Hamor): 'These Labours Past, How Happy We! '		6:40	...
9.		Scene 4. Recitative & Accompagnato (Jephtha): 'What Mean These Doubtful Fancies Of The Brain? '... 'If, Lord, Sustain'd By Thy Almighty Pow'r'		2:00	...
10.		Scene 4. Chorus Of Israelites: 'O God, Behold Our Sore Distress'		4:16	...
11.		Scene 5. Recitative & Air (StorgA¨): 'Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads'... 'Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe'		4:57	...
12.		Scene 6. Recitative (Iphis, StorgA¨): 'Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries' - Air (Iphis): 'The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days'		3:43	...
13.		Scene 7. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): 'Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply' - Chorus Of Israelites: 'When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke'		5:15	...

Discography: The Sixteen Harry Christophers