AlbumFebruary 3, 200966 tracks

Public release page

Handel: Jephtha by RIAS Kammerchor.

byRIAS Kammerchor

Community score

—

No ratings yet

Listener notes

No comments yet

Release date

February 3, 2009

Album release

Runtime

159m 37s

Total track runtime

Rate this album View artist page

Tracklist

01Overture5:29
02Menuet1:37
03Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" (Zebul)1:30
04Air. "Pour Forth No More Unheeded Prayr's" (Zebul)4:58
05Chorus. "No More to Ammon's God and King"2:38
06Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" (Zebul/Jephtha)1:05
07Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace" (Jephtha)4:06

08Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" (Storgè)0:29

09Air. "In Gentle Murmurs Will Mourn" (Storgè)5:09

10Recitative. "Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis" (Hamor)0:51

11Air. "Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish" (Hamor)3:05

12Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" (Iphis)0:30

13Air: "Take the Heart You Foundly Gave" (Iphis)3:57

14Recitative. "I Go - My Soul Inspir'd by Thy Command" (Hamor)0:30

15Duet. "These Labours Past, How Happy We" (Iphis/Hamor)5:46

16Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" (Jephtha)0:56

17Accompagnato. "If, Lord, Sustain'd by Thy Almighty Pow'r" (Jephtha) - Recitative. "'Tis Said. Attend, Ye Chiefs" [Jephtha]1:09

18Chorus. "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"4:10

19Recitative. "Some Dire Event Hangs o'er Our Heads" (Storgè)0:28

20Air. "Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe" (Storgè)4:17

21Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" (Iphis/Storgè)0:59

22Air. "The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days" (Iphis)3:18

23Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" (Zebul/Jephtha)0:28

24Chorus. "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke"4:20

25Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy" (Hamor)1:19

26Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, Unbodied Forms"3:06

27Air. "Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending" (Hamor)4:32

28Recitative. "'Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens" (Iphis)0:22

29Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute" (Iphis)4:19

30Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" (Jephtha)0:33

31Air. "His Mighty Arm" (Jephtha)5:25

32Chorus. "In Glory High"2:23

34Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" (Iphis)0:23

35Air. "Welcome, As the Cheerful Light" (Iphis) - Chorus. "Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire"3:56

36Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" (Jephtha)0:25

37Air. "Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb" (Jephtha)4:32

38Recitative. "Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?" (Zebul/Jephtha)1:06

39Accompagnato and Arioso. "First Perish Thou - Let Other Creatures" (Storgè)2:13

40Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" (Hamor)0:23

41Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal" (Hamor)1:35

42Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter!" (Storgè/Hamor/Jephtha/Zebul)2:47

43Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" (Iphis)0:29

44Accompagnato. "For Joys So Vast" (Iphis)0:49

45Air. "Happy They!" (Iphis)3:40

46Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still" (Jephtha)3:37

47Chorus. "How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!7:09

48Arioso. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams" (Jephtha)2:39

49Accompagnato. "A Father, Off Ring Up" (Jephtha)0:26

50Air. "Waft Her, Angels" (Jephtha)4:05

51Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" (Iphis)0:35

52Air. "Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs" (Iphis)5:02

53Chorus. "Doubtful Fear and Reverend Awe" (Priests)3:42

55Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" (Angel)1:10

56Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live" (Angel)4:41

57Arioso. "For Ever Blessed Be" (Jephtha)1:30

58Chorus. "Theme Sublime"3:25

59Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" (Zebul)0:29

60Air. "Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train" (Zebul)2:15

61Recitative. "O Let Me Fold Thee" (Storgè)0:19

62Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind" (Storgè)1:55

63Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" (Hamor)0:20

64Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" (Iphis)0:14

65Quintet. "All That Is in Hamor Mine" (Iphis/Hamor/Storgè/Jephtha/Zebul)3:36

66Chorus. "Ye House of Gilead"3:21