Handel: Jephtha

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Release Date: 22nd Apr 2013
Catalogue No: 94668BR
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Handel: Jephtha

Work length2:39:35

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Christiane Oelze (soprano), Axel Kohler (countertenor), Julia Gooding (soprano)
RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Marcus Creed
Recorded: June 1992
Recording Venue: Kirche 'Zur frohen Botschaft', Berlin-Karlshorst, Germany

Overture

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Menuet

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Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: It must be so (Zebul)

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Act I Scene 1: Air: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)

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Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)

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Act I Scene 2: Recitative: But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)

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Act I Scene 2: Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)

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Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation (Storge)

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Act I Scene 2: Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)

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Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)

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Act I Scene 3: Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)

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Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)

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Act I Scene 3: Air: Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)

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Act I Scene 3: Recitative: I go, my soul (Hamor)

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Act I Scene 3: Duet: These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)

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Act I Scene 4: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies (Jephtha)

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Act I Scene 4: Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain'd by thy almighty pow'r - Tis said. Attend, ye Chiefs (Jephtha)

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Act I Scene 4: O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)

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Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)

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Act I Scene 5: Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)

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Act I Scene 6: Recitative: Say, my dear mother (Iphis, Storge)

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Act I Scene 6: Air: The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)

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Act I Scene 7: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)

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Act I Scene 7: When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)

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Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy (Hamor)

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Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)

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Act II Scene 1: Air: Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)

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Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 1: Air: Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Heav'n smiles once more (Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 2: Air: His mighty arm (Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 2: In glory high (Chorus)

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Act II Scene 3: Symphony

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Act II Scene 3: Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 3: Air and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)

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Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 3: Air: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso: First perish thou - Let other creatures (Storge)

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Act II Scene 3: Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose (Hamor)

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Act II Scene 3: Air: On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)

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Act II Scene 3: Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)

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Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Such news flies swift (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: For joys so vast (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 4: Air: Happy they! (Iphis)

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Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still (Jephtha)

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Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)

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Act III Scene 1: Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)

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Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: A father, off'ring up (Jephtha)

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Act III Scene 1: Air: Waft her, angels (Jephtha)

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Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests (Iphis)

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Act III Scene 1: Air: Farewell, ye limpid springs (Iphis)

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Act III Scene 1: Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)

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Act III Scene 1: Symphony

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Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Rise, Jephtha (Angel)

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Act III Scene 1: Air: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live (Angel)

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Act III Scene 1: Arioso: For ever blessed be (Jephtha)

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Act III Scene 1: Theme sublime (Chorus)

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Act III Scene 2: Recitative: Let me congratulate (Zebul)

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Act III Scene 2: Air: Laud her, all ye virgin train (Zebul)

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Act III Scene 2: Recitative: O let me fold thee (Storge)

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Act III Scene 2: Air: Sweet as sight to the blind (Storge)

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Act III Scene 2: Recitative: With transport, Iphis (Hamor)

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Act III Scene 2: Recitative: My faithful Hamor (Iphis)

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Act III Scene 2: Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul)

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Act III Scene 2: Ye house of Gilead (Chorus)

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George Frideric Handel, widely considered one of the foremost composers of his generation, became the pride of Britain despite the fact that he was German‐born.

Famed for his large‐scale vocal works, he was the inventor of the English oratorio, a genre that brought him much success.

Jephtha was Handel’s final oratorio, written in 1751 while the composer was suffering badly from his failing eyesight. Based on the tale of Jephtha from the Book of Judges, the title character makes a promise to God that, in the event that he should triumph over the Ammonites, he will sacrifice the first living creature he meets. Unluckily this proves to be his beloved daughter, Iphis.

As in the Renaissance version of the story, Iphis is saved by an angel who decrees that, instead of dying, Iphis will dedicate her life to God in the Temple.

In the title role is renowned British lyric tenor John Mark Ainsley, who continues to enjoy an active international career. German soprano Christiane Oelze plays the doomed Iphis, while contralto Catherine Denley takes on the role of her cautious mother, Storgè.

Handel: Jephtha

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