Handel: Jephtha
Simon Bailey (bass), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Annelie Sophie Müller (mezzo-soprano), David Allsopp (counter-tenor), Kirsten Blaise (soprano)
Il Capriccio, Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Jürgen Budday
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Overture
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I Scene 1
- Simon Bailey
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- Jürgen Budday
Accompagnato. It must be so (Zebul)
Air. Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)
No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I Scene 2
- Benjamin Hulett, Annelie Sophie Muller, Simon Bailey
- Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)
Air. Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)
Recitative. Twill be a painful separation (Storgè)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I Scene 3
- Kirsten Blaise, David Allsopp
- Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)
Air. Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)
Recitative. Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)
Recitative. I go, my soul (Hamor)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I Scene 4
- Benjamin Hulett
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. What mean these doubtful fancies (Jephtha)
O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I Scene 7
- Benjamin Hulett, Simon Bailey
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)
When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II Scene 1
- David Allsopp, Kirsten Blaise
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Glad tidings of great joy (Hamor)
Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)
Air. Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)
Recitative. Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II Scene 2
- Benjamin Hulett
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Heav'n smiles once more (Jephtha)
Air. His mighty arm (Jephtha)
In glory high (Chorus)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II Scene 3
- David Allsopp, Kirsten Blaise, Benjamin Hulett, Annelie Sophie Muller, Simon Bailey
- Ensemble il capriccio, Maulbronn Chamber Choir
- Jürgen Budday
Symphony
Air. Welcome, as the cheerful light (Iphis) - Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire [Chorus]
Air. Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II Scene 4
- Kirsten Blaise, Benjamin Hulett
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Such news flies swift (Iphis)
Air. Happy they! This vital breath (Iphis)
Accompagnato. Deeper, and deeper (Jephtha)
How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III Scene 1
- Kirsten Blaise, Benjamin Hulett
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Ensemble il capriccio
- Jürgen Budday
Air. Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)
Air. Waft her, angels (Jephtha)
Accompagnato. Ye sacred priests (Iphis)
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III Scene 2
- Simon Bailey, Annelie Sophie Muller, David Allsopp, Kirsten Blaise, Benjamin Hulett
- Ensemble il capriccio, Maulbronn Chamber Choir
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. Let me congratulate (Zebul)
Recitative. O let me fold thee (Storgè)
Recitative. With transport, Iphis (Hamor)
Duet. All that is in Hamor mine (Iphis, Harmor) - Quintet. Joy's triumphant crown thy days [Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul, Chorus] - Amen