Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Jephtha

6 MINUTES AND 28 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet

05:11

2

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"

01:23

3

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"

02:51

4

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "No more to Ammon's god and king"

02:55

5

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "But Jephta comes"

00:53

6

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"

04:07

7

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta...In gentle murmurs will I mourn"

04:59

8

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis...Dull delay, in piercing anguish"

03:50

9

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls...Take the heart you fondly gave"

04:14

10

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command...These labours past, how happy we!"

07:28

11

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "What mean these doubtful fancies"

01:57

12

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "O God, behold our sore distress"

04:34

13

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads...Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"

04:57

14

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Say, my dear mother"

00:53

15

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "The smiling dawn of happy days"

03:33

16

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"

00:26

17

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"

04:39

18

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"

01:15

19

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"

03:12

20

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Up the dreadful steep ascending"

04:15

21

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens...Tune the soft melodious lute"

04:42

22

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

06:28

23

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "In glory high, in might serene"

02:32

24

Handel: Jephtha / Act 2: Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"

01:30

25

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Welcome as the cheerful light"

03:52

26

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Horror! confusion!...Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"

04:59

27

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Why is my brother thus afflicted"

00:58

28

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "First perish thou, and perish all the world"

02:20

29

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "If such thy cruel purpose...On me let blind mistaken zeal"

01:48

30

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "O spare your daughter"

03:13

31

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Such news flies swift"

01:21

32

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Happy they! this vital breath"

03:30

33

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Deeper, and deeper still"

03:26

34

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"

08:04

35

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"

03:03

36

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Waft her, angels, through the skies"

04:29

37

Handel: Jephtha / Act 3: "Ye sacred priests...Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"

06:27

38

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"

03:50

39

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: Symphony

02:44

40

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"

01:01

41

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"

04:00

42

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"

01:29

43

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Theme sublime of endless praise"

03:23

44

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Let me congratulate this happy turn...Laud her, all ye virgin train"

02:22

45

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms...Sweet as sight

02:16

46

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence...All that is in Hamor mine"

03:37

47

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"

03:00

48

00:18

Handel: Jephtha

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

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