Alfreda Hodgson

Jephtha

Featuring
Release date 1990

Tracklist

1
Jephtha, Act I: No. 1. Overture
3:50
3:50
2
Jephtha, Act I: No. 2. Menuet
1:43
1:43
3
Jephtha, Act I: No. 3. Recitative: It Must Be So – or These Vile Ammonites (Zebul)
1:26
1:26
4
Jephtha, Act I: No. 4. Air: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray’Rs (Zebul)
3:15
3:15
5
Jephtha, Act I: No. 5. Chorus: No More to Ammon’s God and King
2:57
2:57
6
Jephtha, Act I: No. 6. Recitative: But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heaven, Assist Our Plea (Zebul)
1:00
1:00
7
Jephtha, Act I: No. 7. Air: Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace (Jephtha)
4:04
4:04
8
Jephtha, Act I: No. 8. Recitative: ’Twill Be a Painful Separation, Jephtha (Storgè) / No. 9. Air: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn (Storgè)
5:17
5:17
9
Jephtha, Act I: No. 10. Recitative: Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis (Hamor) / No. 11. Air: Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish (Hamor)
4:47
4:47
10
Jephtha, Act I: No. 12. Recitative: Ill Suits the Voice of Love When Glory Calls (Iphis) / No. 13. Air: Take the Heart You Fondly Gave (Iphis)
5:00
5:00
11
Jephtha, Act I: No. 14. Recitative: I Go. My Soul, Inspir’d by Thy Command (Hamor) / No. 15. Duet: These Labours Past, How Happy We! (Iphis, Hamor)
6:40
6:40
12
Jephtha, Act I: No. 16. Recitative: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies of the Brain? (Jephtha) / Accompagnato: If, Lord, Sustained by Thy Almighty Pow’r (Jephtha)
1:29
1:29
13
Jephtha, Act I: Accompagnato: ’Tis Said (Jephtha) / No. 17. Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
4:42
4:42
14
Jephtha, Act I: No. 18. Recitative: Some Dire Event Hands O’Er Our Heads (Storgè) / No. 19. Air: Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe (Storgè)
5:13
5:13
15
Jephtha, Act I: No. 20. Recitative: Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries (Iphis)
0:51
0:51
16
Jephtha, Act I: No. 21. Air: The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days (Iphis)
3:01
3:01
17
Jephtha, Act I: No. 22. Recitative: Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King’s Reply (Zebul) / No. 23. Chorus: When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke
5:14
5:14
18
Jephtha, Act II: No. 24. Recitative: Glad Tidings of Great Joy (Hamor)
1:10
1:10
19
Jephtha, Act II: No. 25. Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim
3:12
3:12
20
Jephtha, Act II: No. 26. Air: Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending (Hamor)
5:27
5:27
21
Jephtha, Act II: No. 27. Recitative: ’Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens (Iphis) / No. 28. Air: Tune the Soft Melodious Lute (Iphis)
5:06
5:06
22
Jephtha, Act II: No. 29. Recitative: Again Heav’n Smiles on His Repentant People (Zebul) / No. 30. Air: Freedom Now Once More Possessing (Zebul)
4:05
4:05
23
Jephtha, Act II: No. 31. Recitative: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant (Jephtha) / No. 32. Air: His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow (Fephtha)
6:04
6:04
24
Jephtha, Act II: No. 33. Chorus: In Glory High, in Might Serene
2:25
2:25
25
Jephtha, Act II: No. 34. Symphony
1:18
1:18
26
Jephtha, Act II: No. 35. Recitative: Hail, Glorious Conqueror (Iphis) / No. 36. Air: Welcome as the Cheerful Light… Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire (Iphis, Chorus of Boys)
4:02
4:02
27
Jephtha, Act II: No. 37. Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha) / No. 38. Air: Open Thy Marble Jaws, o Tomb (Jephtha)
4:50
4:50
28
Jephtha, Act II: No. 39. Recitative: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? (Zebul)
1:14
1:14
29
Jephtha, Act II: No. 40. Concitato: First Perish Thou, and Perish All the World! (Storgè) / Air: Let Other Creatures Die (Storgè)
2:13
2:13
30
Jephtha, Act II: No. 41. Recitative: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose (Hamor) / No. 42. Air: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal (Hamor)
1:51
1:51
31
Jephtha, Act II: No. 43. Quartet: O Spare Your Daughter (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha)
2:40
2:40
32
Jephtha, Act II: No. 44. Recitative: Such News Flies Swift (Iphis) / No. 45. Air: Happy They! This Vital Breath (Iphis)
4:12
4:12
33
Jephtha, Act II: No. 46. Accompagnato: Deeper, and Deeper Still (Jephtha)
3:23
3:23
34
Jephtha, Act II: No. 47. Chorus: How Dark, o Lord, Are Thy Decrees
8:56
8:56
35
Jephtha, Act III: No. 48. Accompagnato: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, o Sun (Jephtha) / Recitative: A Father, Offering Up His Only Child (/Ephtha)
2:55
2:55
36
Jephtha, Act III: No. 49. Air: Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies (Jephtha)
4:48
4:48
37
Jephtha, Act III: No. 50. Accompagnato: Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne’er Yet (Iphis) / No. 51. Air: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs and Floods (Iphis)
6:02
6:02
38
Jephtha, Act III: No. 52. Chorus: Doubtful Fear and Rev’rent Awe
5:00
5:00
39
Jephtha, Act III: No. 53. Symphony
1:28
1:28
40
Jephtha, Act III: No. 54. Recitative: Rise, Jephtha, and Ye Rev’rend Priests (Angel)
1:11
1:11
41
Jephtha, Act III: No. 55. Air: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live (Angel)
4:43
4:43
42
Jephtha, Act III: No. 56. Arioso: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name (Jephtha)
1:50
1:50
43
Jephtha, Act III: No. 57. Chorus: Theme Sublime of Endless Praise
3:10
3:10
44
Jephtha, Act III: No. 58. Recitative: Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn (Zebul) / No. 59. Air: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train (Zebul)
1:44
1:44
45
Jephtha, Act III: No. 60. Recitative: O Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother’s Arms (Storgè) / No. 61. Air: Sweet as Sight to the Blind (Storgè)
2:32
2:32
46
Jephtha, Act III: No. 62. Recitative: With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety (Hamor) / No. 63. Air: ’Tis Heaven’s All-Ruling Pow’r (Hamor)
5:41
5:41
47
Jephtha, Act III: No. 64. Recitative: My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence (Iphis) / No. 65. Quintet: All That Is in Hamor Mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul)
4:21
4:21
48
Jephtha, Act III: No. 66. Chorus: Ye House of Gilead
3:50
3:50
49
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Symphony
8:21
8:21
50
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Air
2:40
2:40
51
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Chorus
2:51
2:51
52
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Air
2:23
2:23
53
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Chorus
1:56
1:56
54
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Air
2:21
2:21
55
Chandos Anthem No. 2, HWV 247 "In the Lord put I my trust": Chorus
2:39
2:39