Handel: jephtha
(2010)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Decca : Made available through hoopla, 2010
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 38 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
0028942235120 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10953874, 10953874
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Overture - Menuet (5:11) -- "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites" (1:23) -- "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" (2:51) -- "No more to Ammon's god and king" (2:55) -- "But Jephta comes" (0:53) -- "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (4:07) -- "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta"/"In gentle murmurs will I mourn" (4:59) -- "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis"/"Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (3:50) -- "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls"/"Take the heart you fondly gave" (4:14) -- "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command"/"These labours past, how happy we!" (7:28) -- "What mean these doubtful fancies" (1:57) -- "O God, behold our sore distress" (4:34) -- "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads"/"Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (4:57) -- "Say, my dear mother" (0:53) -- "The smiling dawn of happy days" (3:33) -- "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply" (0:26) -- "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" (4:39) -- "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" (1:14) -- "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" (3:12) -- "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (4:15) -- "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens"/"Tune the soft melodious lute" (4:42) -- "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people"/"His mighty arm, with sudden blow" (6:28) -- "In glory high, in might serene" (2:32) -- Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror" (1:30) -- "Welcome as the cheerful light" (3:52) -- "Horror! confusion!"/"Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" (4:59) -- "Why is my brother thus afflicted" (0:58) -- "First perish thou, and perish all the world" (2:20) -- "If such thy cruel purpose"/"On me let blind mistaken zeal" (1:48) -- "O spare your daughter" (3:13) -- "Such news flies swift" (1:21) -- "Happy they! this vital breath" (3:30) -- "Deeper, and deeper still" (3:26) -- "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" (8:04) -- "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" (3:03) -- "Waft her, angels, through the skies" (4:29) -- "Ye sacred priests"/"Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (6:27) -- "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" (3:50) -- Symphony (2:44) -- "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests" (1:01) -- "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live" (4:00) -- "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (1:29) -- "Theme sublime of endless praise" (3:23) -- "Let me congratulate this happy turn"/"Laud her, all ye virgin train" (2:22) -- "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms"/"Sweet as sight (2:16) -- "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence"/"All that is in Hamor mine" (3:37) -- "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" (3:00) -- Applause (0:18)

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