Handel: Jeptha (3CD)

CD1
1. Overture 5’29
2. Menuet 1’36
ACT I
3. 1. Accompagnato (Zebul): It must be so 1’30
4. 2. Air (Zebul): Pour forth no more unheeded prayr’s 4’58
5. 3. Chorus: No more to Ammon’s god and king 2’38
6. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): But Jehphta comes 1’05
7. 4. Air (Jephtha): Virtue my soul shall still embrace 4’07
8. Recitative (Storgè): ‘Twill be a painful separation 0’29
9. 5. Air (Storgè): In gentle murmurs will mourn 5’10
10. Recitative (Hamor): Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis 0’51
11. 6. Air (Hamor): Dull delay, in piercing anguish 3’05
12. Recitative (Iphis): Ill suits the voice of love 0’30
13. 7. Air (Iphis): Take the heart you foundly gave 3’57
14. Recitative (Hamor): I go: ‐ my soul 0’30
15. 8. Duet (Jephtha): These labours past, how happy we 5’47
16. Recitative (Jephtha): What mean these doubtful fancies 0’56
17. 9. Accompagnato (Jephtha): If, Lord, sustain’d by thy almighty pow’r ‐Recitative (Jephtha): ‘tis said. Attend, ye Chiefs 1’10
18. 10. Chorus: O God, behold our sore distress 4’10
19. Recitative (Storgè): Some dire event hangs o’er our heads 0’28
20. 11. Air (Storgè): Scenes of horror, scenes of woe 4’17
21. Recitative (Iphis, Storgè): Say, my dear mother 0’59
22. 12. Air (Iphis): The smiling dawn of happy days 3’18
23. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king’s reply 0’29
24. 13. Chorus : When his loud voice in thunder spoke 4’20
Total Time 61’54
CD2
ACT II
1. Recitative (Hamor): Glad tidings of great joy 1’19
2. 14. Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms 3’07
3. 15. Air (hamor): Up the dreadful steep ascending 4’33
4. Recitative (Iphis): ‘Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens 0’23
5. 16. Air (Iphis): Tune the soft melodious lute 4’19
6. Recitative (Jephtha): Heav’n smiles once more 0’33
7. 18. Air (Jephtha): His mighty arm 5’26
8. 19. Chorus: In glory high 2’24
9. 20. Symphony 1’13
10. Recitative (Iphis): Hail, glorious conqueror! 0’24
11. 21. Air (Iphis): Welcome, as the cheerful light ‐ Chorus: Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire 3’57
12. Recitative (Jephtha): Horror! Confusion! 0’26
13. 22. Air (Jephtha): Open thy marble jaws, O tomb 4’32
14. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Why is my brother thus afflicted? 1’06
15. 23. Accompagnato and Arioso (Storgè) First perish thou – Let other creatures 2’13
16. Recitative (Hamor): If such thy cruel purpose 0’23
17. 24. Air (Hamor): On me let blind mistaken zeal 1’36
18. 25. Quartet (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul): O spare your daughter! 2’47
19. Recitative (Iphis): Such news flies swift 0’30
20. 26. Accompagnato (Iphis): For joys so vast 0’49
21. 27. Air (Iphis): Happy they! 3’40
22. 28. Accompagnato (Jephtha): Deeper and deeper still 3’37
23. 29. Chorus: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! 7’09
CD3
ACT III
1. 30. Arioso (Jephtha): Hide thou thy hated beams 2’40
2. 31. Accompagnato (Jephtha): A father, off ring up 0’26
3. 32. Air (Jephtha): Waft her, angels 4’06
4. 33. Accompagnato (Iphis): Ye sacred priests 0’35
5. 34. Air (Iphis): Farewell, ye limpid springs 5’02
6. 35. Chorus (Priests): Doubtful fear and reverend awe 3’42
7. 36. Symphony 1’54
8. Recitative (Angel): Rise, Jephtha 1’10
9. 37. Air (Angel): Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live 4’42
10. 38. Arioso (Jephtha): For ever blessed be 1’31
11. 39. Chorus: Theme sublime 3’25
12. Recitative (Zebul): Let me congratulate 0’30
13. 40. Air (Zebul): Laud her, all ye virgin train 2’16
14. Recitative (Storgè): O let me fold thee 0’20
15. 41. Air (Storgè): Sweet as sight to the blind 1’56
16. Recitative (Hamor): With transport, Iphis 0’21
17. Recitative (Iphis): My faithful Hamor 0’15
18. 43. Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine 3’36
19. 44. Chorus: Ye house of Gilead 3’21
Total Time 41’48
John Mark Ainsley Tenor, Jephtha
Michael George Bass, Zebul, His Brother
Catherine Denley Mezzo‐Soprano, Storge, His Wife
Christiane Oelze Soprano, Iphis, His Daughter
Axel Kohler Altus, Hamor, In Love With Iphis
Julia Gooding Soprano, Angel
RIAS‐Kammerchor
Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
Marcus Creed