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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
2:40

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Recorded January 2014.

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

credits

Alto Vocals – - Christopher Royall , - Daniel Collins (5) , - David Clegg , - Ian Aitkenhead
Bass Vocals – - Ben Davies (5) , - Eamonn Dougan , - Stuart Young (2) , - Tim Jones *
Bass Vocals, Baritone Vocals [Zebul] – - Matthew Brook
Bassoon – - Jeremy Ward , - Zoe Shevlin
Cello – - Andrew Skidmore , - 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 (3)
Engineer – - Mike Hatch
Flute – - Christine Garratt
Harp – - Frances Kelly
Harpsichord – - Alastair Ross
Horn – - Anneke Scott , - Joseph Walters
Libretto By – - Thomas Morell
Liner Notes – - Ruth Smith (2)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Storgè] – - Susan Bickley
Oboe – - Catherine Latham , - Hannah McLaughlin , - Lars Henriksson (2)
Organ – - Julian Perkins
Painting [Cover] – - Sir John Everett Millais *
Producer – - Mark Brown (4)
Producer [Production Assistant] – - Hugo Long , - Robin Hawkins (3)
Soprano Vocals – - Alexandra Kidgell , - Charlotte Mobbs , - Grace Davidson , - Julie Cooper , - Katy Hill , - Kirsty Hopkins
Soprano Vocals [Angel] – - Grace Davidson
Soprano Vocals [Iphis] – - Sophie Bevan
Tenor Vocals – - Jeremy Budd , - Mark Dobell , - Simon Berridge , - Tom Raskin
Tenor Vocals [Jephtha] – - James Gilchrist
Theorbo – - David Miller (7)
Trumpet – - Christopher Pigram , - Robert Farley
Viola – - Martin Kelly (3) , - Stefanie Heichelheim
Violin – - Daniel Edgar , - Ellen O'Dell , - Graham Cracknell , - Henrietta Wayne , - Huw Daniel , - Jane Gordon , - Jean Paterson , - Nia Lewis , - Rebecca Miles , - Sarah Sexton , - Theresa Caudle
Violone – - Jan Spencer

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Phonographic Copyright The Sixteen Productions Ltd
Copyright The Sixteen Productions Ltd
Recorded At St Augustinex27s Church, Kilburn

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