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Description
Renowned for their Handel interpretations, Harry Christophers and his award-winning choir, The Sixteen, add to their glittering catalogue of Handel discs with this new recording of Jephtha. The Sixteen are joined by a stellar cast of soloists: James Gilchrist, Susan Bickley, Sophie Bevan, Robin Blaze, Matthew Brook and Grace Davidson.'It has been reckoned that Handel put more notes on paper than any other composer before or since. When he undertook Jephtha, the last new oratorio he was to write, he had composed over 40 operas, over 30 odes, oratorios and serenatas, over 100 cantatas, over 40 pieces of church music, and over 100 instrumental works. Jephtha is the harvest of his decades of penetration and expression of individual character, the human condition, the natural world and the nature of God, and for many listeners it is the masterpiece among his oratorios.' (Ruth Smith: from her CD booklet article) -
Tracklisting
- 1. Overture
- 2. It Must Be So - Pour Forth No More
- 3. No More to Ammon's God and King
- 4. But Jephtha Comes - Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
- 5. Twill Be a Painful Separation - In Gentle Murmurs
- 6. Happy This Embassy - Dull Delay
- 7. I'll Suits the Voice of Love - Take the Heart
- 8. I Go; My Soul - These Labors Past
- 9. What Mean These Doubtful Fancies - If, Lord - Tis Said
- 10. O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
- 11. Some Dire Event - Scenes of Horror
- 12. Say, My Dear Mother - The Smiling Dawn
- 13. Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply - When His Loud Voice Spoke in Thunder
- 1. Glad Tidings of Great Joy to Thee
- 2. Cherub and Seraphim
- 3. Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending
- 4. Tis Well - Tune the Soft Melodious Lute
- 5. Heav'n Smiles Once More - His Mighty Arm
- 6. In Glory High, in Might Serene
- 7. Symphony
- 8. Hail, Glorious Conquerer - Welcome As the Cheerful Light
- 9. Horror! Confusion! - Open Thy Marble Jaws
- 10. Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
- 11. First Perish Thou
- 12. If Such Thy Cruel Purpose - On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
- 13. O Spare Your Daughter
- 14. Such News Flies Swift - For Joys So Vast
- 15. Happy They; This Vital Breath
- 16. Deeper and Deeper Still
- 17. How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!
- 1. Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams , O Sun, in Clouds
- 2. A Father Off'ring Up - Waft Her, Angels
- 3. Ye Sacred Priests - Fairwell, Ye Limpid Springs and Floods
- 4. Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe
- 5. Sinfonia
- 6. Rise, Jephtha - Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
- 7. For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name
- 8. Theme Sublime of Endless Praise
- 9. Let Me Congratulate - Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
- 10. Oh, Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother's Arms - Sweet As Sight to the Blind
- 11. With Transport, Iphis - Tis Heav'n's All-ruling Pow'r
- 12. My Faithful Hamor - All That Is in Hamor Is Mine
- 13. Ye House of Gilead With One Voice
- 14. Again Heav'n Smiles - Freedom Now
Disc 1
Side 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
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