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Handel: Jephtha

David Portillo (Jephtha), Lauren Snouffer (Iphis), Clara Osowski (Storgè), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Hamor), Neal Davies (Zebul), Katelyn Lee (Angel); Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, Dame Jane Glover

Handel: Jephtha
This is emphatically English Handel; no Italianate excesses here, just lean precision and beautiful mellowness of tone. The contemporary instruments (played with period-informed technique) naturally...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2025

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Handel: Jephtha

David Portillo (Jephtha), Lauren Snouffer (Iphis), Clara Osowski (Storgè), Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Hamor), Neal Davies (Zebul), Katelyn Lee (Angel); Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, Dame Jane Glover

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This is emphatically English Handel; no Italianate excesses here, just lean precision and beautiful mellowness of tone. The contemporary instruments (played with period-informed technique) naturally...

Gramophone Magazine, January 2025

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The great baroque composer George Frideric Handel’s final masterpiece! Recorded live in September2022 by multi-GRAMMY®-award winning engineer Christopher Willis, conducted by Dame Jane Glover, and performed by Music of the Baroque- Chorus and Orchestra. Now in its fifth decade, Music of the Baroque is one of the leading professional ensembles in America devoted to 17 th and 18 th -century works. The Chicago Sun-Times writes, “Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may be the big guys on the local classical music scene, but in terms of sheer quality of performance…Music of the Baroque inhabits the same stratosphere.”

  • Release date: 1st Nov 2024
  • Label: Reference Recordings
  • Catalogue number: FR-755
  • Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Pt. 1
Work length48:32
No. 1, Overture
Track length3:16
No. 2, It Must Be So
Track length1:27
No. 3, Pour Forth No More Unheeded Prayers
Track length3:04
No. 4, No More to Ammon's God and King - Chemosh No More
Track length2:54
No. 5, But Jephtha Comes
Track length0:58
No. 6, Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
Track length3:51
No. 7, Twill Be a Painful Separation
Track length0:27
No. 8, In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
Track length4:23
No. 9, Happy This Embassy
Track length0:46
No. 10, Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish
Track length3:02
No. 11, Ill Suits the Voice of Love
Track length0:25
No. 12, Take the Heart You Fondly Gave
Track length3:25
No. 13, I Go, My Soul, Inspir'd
Track length0:25
No. 14, These Labours Past
Track length3:10
No. 15, What Mean These Doubtful Fancies
Track length0:51
No. 16, If, Lord, Sustain'd by Thy Almighty Pow'r
Track length0:41
No. 17, Tis Said
Track length0:15
No. 18, O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
Track length4:16
No. 19, Some Dire Event
Track length0:25
No. 20, Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe
Track length2:15
No. 21, Say, My Dear Mother
Track length0:46
No. 22, The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days
Track length2:34
No. 23, Such, Jephtha
Track length0:27
No. 24, When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke
Track length4:29
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Pt. 2
Work length48:03
No. 25, Glad Tidings of Great Joy
Track length1:14
No. 27, Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending
Track length4:47
No. 28, Tis Well
Track length0:20
No. 29, Tune the Soft Melodious Lute
Track length1:54
No. 30, Again Heav'n Smiles
Track length0:22
No. 31, Freedom Now Once More Possessing
Track length3:33
No. 33, His Mighty Arm
Track length2:22
No. 34, In Glory High
Track length2:32
No. 36, Hail, Glorious Conqueror!
Track length0:28
No. 37, Welcome As the Cheerful Light
Track length1:59
No. 38, Welcome Thou
Track length1:00
No. 39, Horror! Horror!
Track length0:24
No. 40, Open Thy Marble Jaws
Track length4:35
No. 41, Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted
Track length1:09
No. 42, First Perish Thou
Track length2:21
No. 43, If Such Thy Cruel Purpose
Track length0:12
No. 44, On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
Track length1:33
No. 45, O Spare Your Daughter
Track length2:36
No. 46, Such News Flies Swiftly
Track length0:25
No. 47, For Joys So Vast
Track length0:41
No. 48, Happy They
Track length2:59
No. 49, Deeper and Deeper Still
Track length3:14
No. 50, How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees
Track length7:23
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70, Pt. 3
Work length35:24
No. 51, Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams
Track length2:17
No. 52, A Father, Off'ring up His Only Child
Track length0:19
No. 53, Waft Her, Angels
Track length3:57
No. 54, Ye Sacred Priests
Track length0:32
No. 55, Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs
Track length4:57
No. 56, Doubtful Fear
Track length3:43
No. 58, Rise Jephtha
Track length1:05
No. 59, Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
Track length4:34
No. 60, For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name
Track length1:20
No. 61, Theme Sublime of Endless Praise
Track length3:06
No. 62, Let Me Congratulate
Track length0:27
No. 63, Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
Track length1:06
No. 64, O Let Me Fold Thee
Track length0:17
No. 66, With Transport, Iphis
Track length0:18
No. 68, My Faithful Hamor
Track length0:16
No. 70, All That Is in Hamor Mine
Track length3:44
No. 71, Ye House of Gilead
Track length3:26

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January 2025

This is emphatically English Handel; no Italianate excesses here, just lean precision and beautiful mellowness of tone. The contemporary instruments (played with period-informed technique) naturally soften musical brushstrokes and fill out the texture, and the voices of Music of the Baroque’s chorus match them for blend.
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