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Handel’s work on Jeptha in 1751 was repeatedly delayed as a result of his steadily progressing blindness. Even so, with Jeptha Handel created a musical masterpiece of baroque oratorio, with its great choruses, emotionally expressive arias and gripping ensembles. A fine line up of soloists with the Kammerchor of the Dresden Frauenkirche and the Dresden Barockorchester, conducted by Matthias Grünert, make this another excellent release from Carus, presented as part of their Handel anniversary year celebrations. Highly Recommended
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70
Overture
Menuet
Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: It must be so (Zebul)
Act I Scene 1: Air: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)
Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)
Act I Scene 2: Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation (Storge)
Act I Scene 2: Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)
Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)
Act I Scene 3: Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)
Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)
Act I Scene 3: Air: Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)
Act I Scene 3: Recitative: I go, my soul (Hamor)
Act I Scene 3: Duet: These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)
Act I Scene 4: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies (Jephtha)
Act I Scene 4: Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain'd by thy almighty pow'r (Jephtha)
Act I Scene 4: Recitative: 'Tis said. Attend, ye Chiefs (Jephtha)
Act I Scene 4: O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)
Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)
Act I Scene 5: Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)
Act I Scene 6: Recitative: Say, my dear mother (Iphis, Storge)
Act I Scene 6: Air: The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)
Act I Scene 7: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)
Act I Scene 7: When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)
Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy (Hamor)
Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)
Act II Scene 1: Air: Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)
Act II Scene 1: Recitative: 'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)
Act II Scene 1: Air: Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)
Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Heav'n smiles once more (Zebul)
Act II Scene 2: Freedom now (Zebul)
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Zebul, thy deeds were valiant (Jeptha)
Act II Scene 2: Air: His mighty arm (Jephtha)
Act II Scene 2: In glory high (Chorus)
Act II Scene 3: Symphony
Act II Scene 3: Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)
Act II Scene 3: Air and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)
Act II Scene 3: Air: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)
Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso: First perish thou - Let other creatures (Storge)
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose (Hamor)
Act II Scene 3: Air: On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)
Act II Scene 3: Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Such news flies swift (Iphis)
Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: For joys so vast (Iphis)
Act II Scene 4: Air: Happy they! (Iphis)
Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still (Jephtha)
Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)
Act III Scene 1: Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)
Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: A father, off'ring up (Jephtha)
Act III Scene 1: Air: Waft her, angels (Jephtha)
Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests (Iphis)
Act III Scene 1: Air: Farewell, ye limpid springs (Iphis)
Act III Scene 1: Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)
Act III Scene 1: Symphony
Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Rise, Jephtha (Angel)
Act III Scene 1: Air: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live (Angel)
Act III Scene 1: Arioso: For ever blessed be (Jephtha)
Act III Scene 1: Theme sublime (Chorus)
Act III Scene 2: Recitative: Let me congratulate (Zebul)
Act III Scene 2: Air: Laud her, all ye virgin train (Zebul)
Act III Scene 2: Recitative: My faithful Hamor (Iphis)
Act III Scene 2: Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul)
Act III Scene 2: Ye house of Gilead (Chorus)
8th March 2009
“this account of arguably the greatest of Handel's late works captures its elegiac spirit perfectly...the account rises to a moving climax with Markus Schäfer's noble Jephtha and Miriam Meyer's heartbreaking Iphis attains real intensity in the slow section of her final aria.”
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Overture
