Handel: Jephtha

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Release Date: 12th Apr 1989
Catalogue No: 4223512
Label: Philips
Series: Opera Sets
Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Handel: Jephtha / Act 1

Work length58:39

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Michael Chance (countertenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Nigel Robson (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1988-06-16
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Overture - Menuet

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"It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"

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"Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"

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"No more to Ammon's god and king"

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"But Jephta comes"

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"Virtue my soul shall still embrace"

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"'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta...In gentle murmurs will I mourn"

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"Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis...Dull delay, in piercing anguish"

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"Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls...Take the heart you fondly gave"

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"I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command...These labours past, how happy we!"

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"What mean these doubtful fancies"

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"O God, behold our sore distress"

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"Some dire event hangs o'er our heads...Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"

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"Say, my dear mother"

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"The smiling dawn of happy days"

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"Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"

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"When his loud voice in thunder spoke"

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Handel: Jephtha / Act 2

Work length57:15

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Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Michael Chance (countertenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Nigel Robson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1988-06-16
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

"Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"

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"Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"

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"Up the dreadful steep ascending"

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"'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens...Tune the soft melodious lute"

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"Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

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"In glory high, in might serene"

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Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"

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"Welcome as the cheerful light"

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"Horror! confusion!...Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"

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"Why is my brother thus afflicted"

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"First perish thou, and perish all the world"

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"If such thy cruel purpose...On me let blind mistaken zeal"

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"O spare your daughter"

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"Such news flies swift"

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"Happy they! this vital breath"

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"Deeper, and deeper still"

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"How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"

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Handel: Jephtha / Act 3

Work length41:33

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Nigel Robson (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Michael Chance (countertenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1988-06-16
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

"Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"

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"Waft her, angels, through the skies"

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"Ye sacred priests...Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"

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"Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"

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Symphony

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"Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"

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"Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"

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"For ever blessed be Thy holy name"

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"Theme sublime of endless praise"

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"Let me congratulate this happy turn...Laud her, all ye virgin train"

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"O let me fold thee in a mother's arms...Sweet as sight

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"My faithful Hamor, may that Providence...All that is in Hamor mine"

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"Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"

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Applause

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Nigel Robson (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Michael Chance (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Ruth Holton (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1988-06-16
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Handel: Jephtha

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