Handel: Jeptha, HWV 70

Overture

Menuet

Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" (Zebul)

Air. "Pour Forth No More Unheeded Prayr's" (Zebul)

Chorus. "No More to Ammon's God and King"

Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" (Zebul/Jephtha)

Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace" (Jephtha)

Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" (Storgè)

Air. "In Gentle Murmurs Will Mourn" (Storgè)

Recitative. "Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis" (Hamor)

Air. "Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish" (Hamor)

Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" (Iphis)

Air: "Take the Heart You Foundly Gave" (Iphis)

Recitative. "I Go - My Soul Inspir'd by Thy Command" (Hamor)

Duet. "These Labours Past, How Happy We" (Iphis/Hamor)

Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" (Jephtha)

Accompagnato. "If, Lord, Sustain'd by Thy Almighty Pow'r" (Jephtha) - Recitative. "'Tis Said. Attend, Ye Chiefs" (Jephtha)

Recitative. "Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads" (Storgè)

Air. "Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe" (Storgè)

Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" (Iphis/Storgè)

Air. "The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days" (Iphis)

Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" (Zebul/Jephtha)

Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy" (Hamor)

Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, Unbodied Forms"

Air. "Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending" (Hamor)

Recitative. "'Tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens" (Iphis)

Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute" (Iphis)

Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" (Jephtha)

Air. "His Mighty Arm" (Jephtha)

Chorus. "In Glory High"

Symphony

Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" (Iphis)

Air. "Welcome, As the Cheerful Light" (Iphis) - Chorus. "Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire"

Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" (Jephtha)

Air. "Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb" (Jephtha)

Recitative. "Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?" (Zebul/Jephtha)

Accompagnato and Arioso. "First Perish Thou - Let Other Creatures" (Storgè)

Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" (Hamor)

Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal" (Hamor)

Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter!" (Storgè/Hamor/Jephtha/Zebul)

Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" (Iphis)

Accompagnato. "For Joys So Vast" (Iphis)

Air. "Happy They!" (Iphis)

Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still" (Jephtha)

Arioso. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams" (Jephtha)

Accompagnato. "A Father, Off Ring Up" (Jephtha)

Air. "Waft Her, Angels" (Jephtha)

Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" (Iphis)

Air. "Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs" (Iphis)

Chorus. "Doubtful Fear and Reverend Awe" (Priests)

Symphony

Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" (Angel)

Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live" (Angel)

Arioso. "For Ever Blessed Be" (Jephtha)

Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" (Zebul)

Air. "Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train" (Zebul)

Recitative. "O Let Me Fold Thee" (Storgè)

Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind" (Storgè)

Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" (Hamor)

Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" (Iphis)

Quintet. "All That Is in Hamor Mine" (Iphis/Hamor/Storgè/Jephtha/Zebul)