English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner perform Handel: Jephtha

Movements

Overture - Menuet

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

5:11

"It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"

Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

1:23

"Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"

Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:51

"No more to Ammon's god and king"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:55

"But Jephta comes"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Stephen Varcoe, Nigel Robson, The Monteverdi Choir

0:53

"Virtue my soul shall still embrace"

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

4:07

"'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta...In gentle murmurs will I mourn"

Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:59

"Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis...Dull delay, in piercing anguish"

Michael Chance, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:50

"Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls...Take the heart you fondly gave"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:14

"I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command...These labours past, how happy we!"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Chance, Lynne Dawson, The Monteverdi Choir

7:27

"What mean these doubtful fancies"

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

1:58

"O God, behold our sore distress"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:33

"Some dire event hangs o'er our heads...Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"

Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:57

"Say, my dear mother"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

0:53

"The smiling dawn of happy days"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:33

"Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir

0:26

"When his loud voice in thunder spoke"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:35

"Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"

Michael Chance, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

1:14

"Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:12

"Up the dreadful steep ascending"

Michael Chance, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:15

"'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens...Tune the soft melodious lute"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

4:42

"Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

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

6:29

"In glory high, in might serene"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:32

"Welcome as the cheerful light"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:52

"Horror! confusion!...Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"

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

5:00

"Why is my brother thus afflicted"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir

0:59

"First perish thou, and perish all the world"

Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:20

"If such thy cruel purpose...On me let blind mistaken zeal"

Michael Chance, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

1:48

"O spare your daughter"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Stephen Varcoe, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Nigel Robson, The Monteverdi Choir

3:13

"Such news flies swift"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

1:21

"Happy they! this vital breath"

Lynne Dawson, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:31

"Deeper, and deeper still"

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

3:28

"How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

8:02

"Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"

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

3:02

"Waft her, angels, through the skies"

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

4:30

"Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:51

Symphony

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

2:44

"Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"

Ruth Holton, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

1:01

"Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"

Ruth Holton, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:59

"For ever blessed be Thy holy name"

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

1:29

"Theme sublime of endless praise"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:23

"Let me congratulate this happy turn...Laud her, all ye virgin train"

Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:22

"O let me fold thee in a mother's arms...Sweet as sight

Anne Sofie von Otter, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

2:16

"My faithful Hamor, may that Providence...All that is in Hamor mine"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Michael Chance, Anne Sofie von Otter, Stephen Varcoe, The Monteverdi Choir

3:37

"Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir

3:00

About this recording

George Frideric Handel

Composer

English Baroque Soloists

Ensemble

Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor

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English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner and 7 others

Handel: Jephtha

℗© 1989 Universal International Music B.V.

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