Handel - James Gilchrist, Susan Bickley, Sophie Bevan, Robin Blaze, Matthew Brook, Grace Davidson, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers - Jephtha
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Jephtha

Label CORO ‎– COR16121
Format 3 x CD, Album
Barcode 0828021612121
Country Europe
Released 2014
Genre Classical
Style Baroque, Oratorio
ACT ONE
1-1 Overture 7:31
Scene 1
1-2 Accompagnato (Zebul) It Must Be So, Or These Vile Ammonites - Air (Zebul) Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs 4:18
1-3 (Chorus Of Israelites) No More To Ammon's God And King 2:44
Scene 2
1-4 Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heav'n, Assist Our Plea - Air (Jephtha) Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace 4:45
1-5 Recitative (Storgè) 'Twill Be A Painful Separation, Jephtha - Air (Storgè) In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn 5:01
Scene 3
1-6 Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish 3:44
1-7 Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish 3:37
1-8 Recitative (Hamor) I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command - Duet (Iphis, Hamor) These Labours Past, How Happy We! 6:40
Scene 4
1-9 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 2:00
1-10 (Chorus Of Israelites) O God, Behold Our Sore Distress 4:17
Scene 5
1-11 Recitative (Storgè) Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads - Air (Storgè) Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe 4:57
Scene 6
1-12 Recitative (Iphis, Storgè) Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries - Air (Iphis) The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days 3:43
Scene 7
1-13 Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke 5:14
ACT TWO
Scene 1
2-1 Recitative (Hamor) Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis 1:19
2-2 (Chorus Of Israelites) Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms 3:17
2-3 Air (Hamor) Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending 4:08
2-4 Recitative (Iphis) 'Tis Well - Air (Iphis) Tune The Soft Melodious Lute 5:13
Scene 2
2-5 Recitative (Jephtha) Heav'n Smiles Once More On His Repentant People - Air (Jephtha) His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow 5:56
2-6 (Chorus Of Israelites) In Glory High, In Might Serene 2:31
Scene 3
2-7 Symphony 1:08
2-8 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 4:19
2-9 Recitative (Jephtha) Horror! Confusion! Harsh This Music Graters - Air (Jephtha) Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb 4:52
2-10 Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? 1:08
2-11 Accompagnato & Air (Storgè) First Perish Thou, And Perish All The World! 2:19
2-12 Recitative (Hamor) If Such Thy Cruel Purpose, Lo, Your Friend - Air (Hamor) On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal 2:10
2-13 Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke 3:12
Scene 4
2-14 Quartet (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul) O Spare Your Daughter 1:16
2-15 Recitative (Iphis) Such News Flies Swift. I've Heard The Mournful Cause - Accompagnato (Iphis) For Joys So Vast Too Little Is The Price 3:51
2-16 Air (Iphis) Happy They; This Vital Breath 3:17
2-17 Accompagnato (Jephtha) Deeper And Deeper Still, Thy Goodness, Child 7:27
ACT THREE
Scene 1
3-1 Air (Jephtha) Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, In Clouds 2:43
3-2 Accompagnato (Jephtha) A Father, Off'ring Up His Only Child - Air (Jephtha) Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies 5:18
3-3 Accompagnato (Iphis) Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne'er Yet Were Stain'd - Air (Iphis) Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs And Floods 5:33
3-4 (Chorus Of Priests) Doubtful Fear And Rev'rent Awe 3:56
3-5 Sinfonia 2:40
3-6 Recitative (Angel) Rise, Jephtha, And Ye Rev'rend Priests, Withhold - Air (Angel) Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live 5:15
3-7 Air (Jephtha) For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name 1:01
3-8 (Chorus Of Priests) Theme Sublime Of Endless Praise 3:16
Scene 2
3-9 Recitative (Zebul) Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn - Air (Zebul) Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train 2:39
3-10 Recitative (Storgè) Oh, Let Me Fold Thee In A Mother's Arms - Air (Storgè) Sweet As Sight To The Blind 2:47
3-11 Recitative (Hamor) With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety - Air (Hamor) 'Tis Heav'n's All-ruling Pow'r 5:26
3-12 Recitative (Iphis) My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence - Quintet (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul) All That Is In Hamor Is Mine 3:51
3-13 (Chorus Of Israelites) Ye House Of Gilead, With One Voice 3:50
Act Two Scene 2: Appendix
3-14 Recitative (Zebul) Again Heav'n Smiles - Air (Zebul) Freedom Now 4:01
Alto Vocals – Christopher Royall
Alto Vocals – Daniel Collins
Alto Vocals – David Clegg
Alto Vocals – Ian Aitkenhead
Bass Vocals – Ben Davies
Bass Vocals – Eamonn Dougan
Bass Vocals – Stuart Young
Bass Vocals – Tim Jones
Bass Vocals, Baritone Vocals [Zebul] – Matthew Brook
Bassoon – Jeremy Ward
Bassoon – Zoe Shevlin
Cello – Andrew Skidmore
Cello – Imogen Seth-Smith
Chorus, Orchestra – The Sixteen
Composed By – George Frideric Handel
Conductor, Liner Notes – Harry Christophers
Countertenor Vocals [Hamor] – Robin Blaze
Design – Andrew Giles
Engineer – Mike Hatch
Flute – Christine Garratt
Harp – Frances Kelly
Harpsichord – Alastair Ross
Horn – Anneke Scott
Horn – Joseph Walters
Libretto By – Thomas Morell
Liner Notes – Ruth Smith
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Storgè] – Susan Bickley
Oboe – Catherine Latham
Oboe – Hannah McLaughlin
Oboe – Lars Henriksson
Organ – Julian Perkins
Painting [Cover] – Sir John Everett Millais
Producer – Mark Brown
Producer [Production Assistant] – Hugo Long
Producer [Production Assistant] – Robin Hawkins
Soprano Vocals – Alexandra Kidgell
Soprano Vocals – Charlotte Mobbs
Soprano Vocals – Grace Davidson
Soprano Vocals – Julie Cooper
Soprano Vocals – Katy Hill
Soprano Vocals – Kirsty Hopkins
Soprano Vocals [Angel] – Grace Davidson
Soprano Vocals [Iphis] – Sophie Bevan
Tenor Vocals – Jeremy Budd
Tenor Vocals – Mark Dobell
Tenor Vocals – Simon Berridge
Tenor Vocals – Tom Raskin
Tenor Vocals [Jephtha] – James Gilchrist
Theorbo – David Miller
Trumpet – Christopher Pigram
Trumpet – Robert Farley
Viola – Martin Kelly
Viola – Stefanie Heichelheim
Violin – Daniel Edgar
Violin – Ellen O'Dell
Violin – Graham Cracknell
Violin – Henrietta Wayne
Violin – Huw Daniel
Violin – Jane Gordon
Violin – Jean Paterson
Violin – Nia Lewis
Violin – Rebecca Miles
Violin – Sarah Sexton
Violin – Theresa Caudle
Violone – Jan Spencer
Recorded January 2014.

Comes in CD fatbox with 40 page booklet containing liner notes, synopsis and libretto. Fatbox inside slipcase.
Barcode – 828021612121
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