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Jephtha
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Jephtha --- 2014
Recorded January 2014. Printed on rear artwork: © The Sixteen Productions 2014 ℗ The Sixteen Productions 2014 Printed on booklet: ℗ 2014 The Sixteen Productions Ltd. © 2014 The Sixteen Productions Ltd. Comes in CD fatbox with 40 page booklet containing liner notes, synopsis and libretto. Fatbox inside slipcase.
Tracklist
ACT ONE
Overture
Scene 1
Accompagnato (Zebul) It Must Be So, Or These Vile Ammonites - Air (Zebul) Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs
(Chorus Of Israelites) No More To Ammon's God And King
Scene 2
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heav'n, Assist Our Plea - Air (Jephtha) Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
Recitative (Storgè) 'Twill Be A Painful Separation, Jephtha - Air (Storgè) In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
Scene 3
Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish
Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish
Recitative (Hamor) I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command - Duet (Iphis, Hamor) These Labours Past, How Happy We!
Scene 4
Recitative (Jephtha) What Mean These Doubtful Fancies Of The Brain? - Accompagnato (Jephtha) If, Lord, Sustain'd By Thy Almighty Pow'r - Recitative (Jephtha) 'Tis Said
(Chorus Of Israelites) O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
Scene 5
Recitative (Storgè) Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads - Air (Storgè) Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe
Scene 6
Recitative (Iphis, Storgè) Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries - Air (Iphis) The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days
Scene 7
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
ACT TWO
Scene 1
Recitative (Hamor) Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis
(Chorus Of Israelites) Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms
Air (Hamor) Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending
Recitative (Iphis) 'Tis Well - Air (Iphis) Tune The Soft Melodious Lute
Scene 2
Recitative (Jephtha) Heav'n Smiles Once More On His Repentant People - Air (Jephtha) His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow
(Chorus Of Israelites) In Glory High, In Might Serene
Scene 3
Symphony
Recitative (Iphis) Hail, Glorious Conqueror! Much Lov'd Father, Hail! - Air (Iphis) Welcome As The Cheerful Light - (Chorus Of Virgins) Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire
Recitative (Jephtha) Horror! Confusion! Harsh This Music Graters - Air (Jephtha) Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
Accompagnato & Air (Storgè) First Perish Thou, And Perish All The World!
Recitative (Hamor) If Such Thy Cruel Purpose, Lo, Your Friend - Air (Hamor) On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
Scene 4
Quartet (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul) O Spare Your Daughter
Recitative (Iphis) Such News Flies Swift. I've Heard The Mournful Cause - Accompagnato (Iphis) For Joys So Vast Too Little Is The Price
Air (Iphis) Happy They; This Vital Breath
Accompagnato (Jephtha) Deeper And Deeper Still, Thy Goodness, Child
ACT THREE
Scene 1
Air (Jephtha) Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, In Clouds
Accompagnato (Jephtha) A Father, Off'ring Up His Only Child - Air (Jephtha) Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies
Accompagnato (Iphis) Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne'er Yet Were Stain'd - Air (Iphis) Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs And Floods
(Chorus Of Priests) Doubtful Fear And Rev'rent Awe
Sinfonia
Recitative (Angel) Rise, Jephtha, And Ye Rev'rend Priests, Withhold - Air (Angel) Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
Air (Jephtha) For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name
(Chorus Of Priests) Theme Sublime Of Endless Praise
Scene 2
Recitative (Zebul) Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn - Air (Zebul) Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
Recitative (Storgè) Oh, Let Me Fold Thee In A Mother's Arms - Air (Storgè) Sweet As Sight To The Blind
Recitative (Hamor) With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety - Air (Hamor) 'Tis Heav'n's All-ruling Pow'r
Recitative (Iphis) My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence - Quintet (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul) All That Is In Hamor Is Mine
(Chorus Of Israelites) Ye House Of Gilead, With One Voice
Act Two Scene 2: Appendix
Recitative (Zebul) Again Heav'n Smiles - Air (Zebul) Freedom Now