Georg Friedrich Händel: Jephta auf 3 CDs

Disk 1 von 3 (CD)

Disk 2 von 3 (CD)

1. 1 Rezitativ: Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis (2. Akt)
2. 2 Chor: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms
3. 3 Arie: Up the dreadful steep ascending
4. 4 Rezitativ: 'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens - Arie: Tune the soft melodiuos lute
5. 5 Rezitativ: Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people - Arie: Freedom now once more possessing
6. 6 Rezitativ: Zebul, thy deeds were valiant - Arie: is mighty arm, with sudden blow, dispers'd and quell'd
7. 7 Chor: In glory high, in might serene
8. 8 Symphony
9. 9 Rezitativ: Hail, glorious conqueror! much-lov'd father, hail! - Solo und Chor: Welcome, as the cheerful light
10. 10 Rezitativ: Horror! confusion! - Arie: Open thy marble jaws, o tomb
11. 11 Rezitativ: Why is my brother thus afflicted?
12. 12 Accompagnato ans Arioso: FIrst perish thou; and perish all the world!...Let other creatures die
13. 13 Rezitativ: If such thy cruel purpose; lo! your friend offers himself - Arie: On me let blind mistaken zeal her utmost...
14. 14 Quartett: O spare your daughter!
15. 15 Rezitativ: Such news flies swift; I've heard the mournful cause - Accompagniato: For joys so vast, too little is the...
16. 16 Accompagniato: Deeper and deeer still, thy goodness, child
17. 17 Chor: How dark, o Lord, are thy decrees!

Disk 3 von 3 (CD)

1. 1 Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams, o sun, in clouds and darkness - Accompagnato: A father, offering up his... (3. Akt)
2. 2 Accompagniato: Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne'er yet were stain'd with human blood - Arie: Farewell, ye limpid spr...
3. 3 Chor: Doubtful fear and reverent awe strike us, Lord
4. 4 And thy determin'd will declare - Symphony
5. 5 Rezitativ: Rise, Jephtha. And ye reverend prests, withhold - Arie: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live
6. 6 Arioso: For ever blessed be thy holy name
7. 7 Chor: Theme sublime of endless praise
8. 8 Rezitativ: Let me congratulate this happy turn - Arie: Laud her, all ye virgin train
9. 9 Rezitativ: O let me fold thee in a mother's arms - Arie: Sweet as sight to the blind, or freedom to the slave
10. 10 Rezitativ: With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety - Arie: 'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r that checks the rising sigh
11. 11 Rezitativ: My faithful Hamor, may that Providence - Arie: Freely I to Heaven resign, all that is in Hamor mine
12. 12 Chor: Ye house of Gilead, with one voice, in blessings manifold rejoice!