Jürgen Budday - Handel: Jephtha In English (1999)

CD 1
01 Overture
02 ACT ONE. Scene 1. Accompagnato and Air (Zebul): “It must be so - or these vile Ammonites” ... “Pour forth no more unheeded prayers”
03 Scene 1. Chorus of Israelites: “No more to Ammon’s god and king”
04 Scene 2. Recitative & Air (Jephtha): “But Jephtha comes” ... “Virtue my soul shall still embrace”
05 Scene 2. Recitative & Air (Storgè): “Twill be a painful separation” ... “In gentle murmurs will I mourn”
06 Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Hamor): “Happy this embassy” ... “Dull delay, in piercing anguish”
07 Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Iphis): “Ill suits the voice of love” ... “Take the heart you fondly gave”
08 Scene 3. Recitative (Hamor) & Duet (Iphis, Hamor): “I go. My soul, inspir’d by thy command” ... “These labours past, how happy we!”
09 Scene 4. Recitative & Accompagnato (Jephtha): “What means these doubtful fancies of the bain?”” ... “If, Lord, sustain’s by Thy almighty power”
10 Scene 4. Chorus of Israelites: “O God, behold our sore distress”
11 Scene 4. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): “Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king’s reply”
12 Scene 4. Chorus of Israelites: “When His loud voice in thunder spoke”

13 ACT TWO. Scene 1. Recitative (Hamor): “Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis”
14 Scene 1. Chorus of Israelites: “Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms”
15 Scene 1. Air (Hamor): “Up the dreadful steep ascending”
16 Scene 1. Recitative & Air (Iphis): “Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens” ... “Tune the soft melodious lute”
17 Scene 2. Recitative & Air (Jephtha): “Heav’n smiles once more” ... “His mighty arm, with sudden blow, dispers’d”
18 Scene 2. Chorus: “In glory high, in might serene”

CD 2
01 Scene 3. Sinfonia - Recitative (Iphis): “Hail, glorious conqueror”
02 Scene 3. Air (Iphis): “Welcome as the cheerful light” ; Chorus of Virgins: “Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire”
03 Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Jephtha): “Horror, confusion!” ... “Open thy marble jaws, O tomb”
04 Scene 3. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): “Why is my brother thus afflicted?”
05 Scene 3. Accompagnato & Air (Storgè): “First perish thou, and perish all the world!” ... “Let other creatures die?”
06 Scene 3. Recitative & Air (Hamor): “If such thy cruel purpose” ... “On me let blind mistaken zeal”
07 Scene 3. Quartet (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha): “Oh, spare your daughter”
08 Scene 4. Recitative & Accompagnato (Iphis): “Such news flies swift. I’ve heard the mournful cause” ... “For joys so vast too little is the price”
09 Scene 4. Air (Iphis): “Happy they! This vital breath”
10 Scene 4. Accompagnato (Jephtha): “Deeper, and deeper still, thy goodness, child”
11 Scene 4. Chorus: “How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees”

12 ACT THREE. Scene 1. Accompagnato (Jephtha): “Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun, in clouds”
13 Scene 1. Air (Jephtha): “Waft her, angels, through the skies”
14 Scene 1. Accompagnato & Air (Iphis): “Ye sacred priests” ... “Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods”
15 Scene 1. Chorus of Priests: “Doubtful fear and rev’rent awe”
16 Scene 1. Recitative & Air (Angel): “Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev’rend priests” ... “Happy, Iphis shalt thou live”
17 Scene 1. Arioso (Jephtha): “For ever blessed be Thy holy name”
18 Scene 1. Chorus of Priests: “Theme sublime of endless praise”
19 Scene 2. Recitative & Air (Zebul): “Let me congratulate this happy turn” ... “Laud her, all ye virgin train”
20 Scene 2. Recitative & Air (Storgè): “Oh, let me fold thee in a mother’s arms” ... “Sweet as sight to the blind”
21 Scene 2. Recitative (Iphis): “My faithful Hamor, may that Providence” ; Duet (Iphis, Hamor): “All that is in Hamor mine” ; Quintet (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephta, Zebul): “Joys triumphant crown thy days”
22 Scene 2. Chorus of Israelites: “Ye house of Gilead, with one voice”