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Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet (6:52) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Accompagnato. "It must be so" - Air. "Pour forth no more" (Zebul) (6:45) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus] (2:46) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha] (5:07) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "'Twill be a painful separation" - Air. "In gentle murmurs" (Storgè) (5:55) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Happy this embassy" - Air. "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor) (5:07) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Ill suits the voice of love" - Air. "Take the heart" (Iphis) (4:26) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "I go; my soul" - Duet. "These labours past" (Hamor, Iphis) (6:53) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha] (1:48) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus] (4:06) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Some dire event hangs" - Air. "Scenes of horror" (Storgè) (5:12) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis] (4:13) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha] (0:30) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus] (4:29) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Glad tidings of great joy, dea Iphis" (Hamor) (1:05) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus] (3:36) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Air. "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor) (4:57) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "'Tis well" - Air. "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis) (4:37) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" - Air. "Freedom now once more" (Zebul) (3:44) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" - Air. "His mighty arm" (Jephtha) (6:30) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus] (2:24) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Symphony (1:23) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus] (4:55) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha] (4:18) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha] (1:11) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato and Air. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè) (2:51) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor] (1:52) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha] (2:33) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Such news fly swift" (Iphis) (5:18) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha] (3:40) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus] (6:43) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "Hide thou thy hated beams - Accompagnato. "A father, offering up" - Air. "Waft her, angels" (Jephtha) (6:20) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis] (5:40) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus] (3:07) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus] (1:53) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel] (5:54) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha) (1:48) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus] (3:09) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul] (2:39) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè] (2:32) -- Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "With transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" (Hamor) (7:36) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis] (5:59) -- Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus] (3:26)