Händel: Jephtha
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus WienCD1
- Ouverture - Menuet
- Accompagniato: It Must Be So - Or These Vile Ammonites - Arie: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs (1. Akt)
- Chor: No More To Ammon's God And King
- Rezitativ: But Jephtha Comes - Kind Heaven, Assist Our Plea - Arie: Virtue My Soul Shall Stille Embrace
- Rezitativ: 'Twill Be A Painful Separation - Arie: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
- Rezitativ: Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Arie: Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish, Bids Thy Faithful Lover Langui
- Rezitativ: Ill Suits The Voice Of Love When Glory Calls - Arie: Take The Heart You Fondly Gave, Lodg'd In Your Breast...
- Rezitativ: I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command Thirsts For The Battle - Duett: These Labours Past, How Happy We!
- Rezitativ: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies Of The Brain? - Accompagniato: If, Lord, Sustain'd By Thy Almighty Pow'r
- Chor: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
- Rezitativ: Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads - Arie: Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe
- Rezitativ: Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries - Arie: The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days Presents A Prospec...
- Rezitativ: Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply
- Chor: When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
CD2
- Rezitativ: Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis (2. Akt)
- Chor: Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms
- Arie: Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending
- Rezitativ: 'Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens - Arie: Tune The Soft Melodiuos Lute
- Rezitativ: Again Heav'n Smiles On His Repentant People - Arie: Freedom Now Once More Possessing
- Rezitativ: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant - Arie: Is Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow, Dispers'd And Quell'd
- Chor: In Glory High, In Might Serene
- Symphony
- Rezitativ: Hail, Glorious Conqueror! Much-Lov'd Father, Hail! - Solo Und Chor: Welcome, As The Cheerful Light
- Rezitativ: Horror! Confusion! - Arie: Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb
- Rezitativ: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
- Accompagnato Ans Arioso: First Perish Thou; And Perish All The World!...Let Other Creatures Die
- Rezitativ: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose; Lo! Your Friend Offers Himself - Arie: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal Her Utmost...
- Quartett: O Spare Your Daughter!
- Rezitativ: Such News Flies Swift; I've Heard The Mournful Cause - Accompagniato: For Joys So Vast, Too Little Is The...
- Accompagniato: Deeper And Deeer Still, Thy Goodness, Child
- Chor: How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!
CD3
- Arioso: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, In Clouds And Darkness - Accompagnato: A Father, Offering Up His... (3. Akt)
- Accompagniato: Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne'er Yet Were Stain'd With Human Blood - Arie: Farewell, Ye Limpid Spr...
- Chor: Doubtful Fear And Reverent Awe Strike Us, Lord
- And Thy Determin'd Will Declare - Symphony
- Rezitativ: Rise, Jephtha. And Ye Reverend Prests, Withhold - Arie: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
- Arioso: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name
- Chor: Theme Sublime Of Endless Praise
- Rezitativ: Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn - Arie: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
- Rezitativ: O Let Me Fold Thee In A Mother's Arms - Arie: Sweet As Sight To The Blind, Or Freedom To The Slave
- Rezitativ: With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety - Arie: 'Tis Heaven's All-Ruling Pow'r That Checks The Rising Sigh
- Rezitativ: My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence - Arie: Freely I To Heaven Resign, All That Is In Hamor Mine
- Chor: Ye House Of Gilead, With One Voice, In Blessings Manifold Rejoice!