tracks

Overture
Menuet
Accompagnato (Zebul): It Must Be So
Air (Zebul): Pour Forth No More
Chorus: No More To Ammon's God And King
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): But Jephtha Comes
Air (Jephtha): Virtue On My Soul Shall Still Embrace
Recitative (Storge): Twill Be A Painful Separation
Air (Storge): In Getle Murmurs Will I Mourn
Recitative (Hamor): Happy This Embassy
Air (Hamor): Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish
Recitative (Iphis): Ill Suits The Voice Of Love
Air (Iphis): Take The Heart You Fondly Gave
Recitative (Hamor): I Go, My Soul
Duet (Iphis, Hamor): These Labours Past, How Happy We
Recitative (Jephtha): What Mean These Doubtful Fancies
Accompagnetto (Jephtha): If, Lord, Sustained
Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
Recitative (Storge): Some Dire Event
Air (Storge): Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe
Recitative (Iphis, Storge): Say, My Dear Mother
Air (Iphis): The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Such, Jephtha, WAs The Haughty King's Reply
Chorus: When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
Recitative (Hamor): Glad Things Of Great Joy
Chorus: Cherub And Seraphim
Air (Hamor): Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending
Recitative (Iphis): Tis Well, Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens
Air (Iphis): Tune The Soft Melodious Lute
Recitative (Jephtha): Heav'n Smiles Once More
Air (Jephtha): His Mighty Arm
Chorus: In Glory High
Symphony
Recitative (Iphis): Hail, Glorious Conqueror
Air (Iphis) And Chorus: Welcome, As The Cheerful Light
Recitative (Jephtha): Horror! Confusion!
Air (Jephtha): Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
Accompagnato And Arioso (Storge): First Perish Thou
Recitative (Hamor): If Such Thy Cruel Purpose
Air (Hamor): On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
Quartet (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul): O Spare Your Daughter!
Recitative (Iphis): Such News Flies Swift
Accompagnato (Iphis): For Joys So Vast
Air (Iphis): Happy They!
Accompagnato (Jephtha): Deeper And Deeper Still
Chorus: How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!
Arioso (Jephtha): Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams
Accompagnato (Jephtha): A Father, Off'ring Up
Air (Jephtha): Waft Her, Angels
Accompagnato (Iphis): Ye Sacred Priests
Air (Iphis): Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs
Chorus (Priests): Doubtful Fear And Reverend Awe
Symphony
Recitative (Angel): Rise, Jephtha
Air (Angel): Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
Arioso (Jephtha): For Ever Blessed Be
Chorus: Theme Sublime
Recitative (Zebul): Let Me Congratulate
Air (Zebul): Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
Recitative (Storge): O Let Me Fold Thee
Air (Storge): Sweet As Sight To The Blind
Recitative (Hamor): With Transport, Iphis
Recitative (Iphis): My Faithful Hamor
Duet (Hamor, Iphis) And Quintet (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul): All That Is In Hamor Mine
Chorus: Ye House Of Gilead

notes

℗ 1994 "edel" Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH
© 1994 Berlin Classics, a division of "edel" Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH
Printed and manufactured in Germany
Made in Germany by Optimal (on disc)

Released in a double-CD jewelcase.

Recording: Kirche "Zur Frohen Botschaft", Berlin-Karlshorst 6/1992

credits

Bass Vocals [Zebul] – Michael George (3)
Choir – RIAS-Kammerchor
Composed By – George Frideric Handel,
Conductor – Marcus Creed
Countertenor Vocals [Hamor] – Axel Köhler
Liner Notes – Donald Teeters
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Storge] – Catherine Denley
Orchestra – Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
Soprano Vocals [Angel] – Julia Gooding
Soprano Vocals [Iphis] – Christiane Oelze
Tenor Vocals [Jephtha] – John Mark Ainsley

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – "edel" Gesellschaft für Produktmarketing mbH
Copyright (c) – Berlin Classics
Made By – Optimal Germany
Recorded At – Kirche "Zur Frohen Botschaft", Berlin-Karlshorst

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