‎Handel: Jeptha, HWV 70 by Catherine Denley

Overture

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

5:29

Menuet

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:37

Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" (Zebul)

MICHAEL GEORGE, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:30

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

Marcus Creed, MICHAEL GEORGE, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:58

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

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

2:38

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

MICHAEL GEORGE, John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

1:05

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

4:06

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

Marcus Creed, Catherine Denley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MICHAEL GEORGE, John Mark Ainsley, Christiane Oelze, RIAS Kammerchor, Axel Köhler, Julia Gooding

0:29

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

Catherine Denley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

5:09

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

Marcus Creed, Axel Köhler, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:51

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

Axel Köhler, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:05

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

Marcus Creed, Christiane Oelze, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:30

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

Marcus Creed, Christiane Oelze, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:57

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

Axel Köhler, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:30

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

Marcus Creed, Axel Köhler, Christiane Oelze, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

5:46

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:56

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

1:09

Chorus. "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"

Marcus Creed, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:10

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

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:28

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

Marcus Creed, Catherine Denley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:17

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

Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:58

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

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:18

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:28

Chorus. "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke"

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:20

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

Marcus Creed, Axel Köhler, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:19

Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, Unbodied Forms"

Marcus Creed, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:06

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

Axel Köhler, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:32

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

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:22

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

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

4:19

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:33

Air. "His Mighty Arm" (Jephtha)

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

5:25

Chorus. "In Glory High"

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

2:23

Symphony

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:12

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

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:23

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

RIAS Kammerchor, Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:56

Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" (Jephtha)

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:25

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

4:32

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

MICHAEL GEORGE, John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

1:06

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

Catherine Denley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

2:13

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

Axel Köhler, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Catherine Denley, RIAS Kammerchor, Christiane Oelze, MICHAEL GEORGE, John Mark Ainsley, Julia Gooding

0:23

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

Axel Köhler, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:35

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

Axel Köhler, John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Catherine Denley, MICHAEL GEORGE, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

2:47

Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" (Iphis)

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:29

Accompagnato. "For Joys So Vast" (Iphis)

Marcus Creed, Christiane Oelze, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:49

Air. "Happy They!" (Iphis)

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

3:40

Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still" (Jephtha)

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

3:37

Chorus. "How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

7:08

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Axel Köhler, MICHAEL GEORGE, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

2:39

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

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, Axel Köhler, MICHAEL GEORGE, Julia Gooding

0:26

Air. "Waft Her, Angels" (Jephtha)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed

4:05

Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" (Iphis)

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Catherine Denley, John Mark Ainsley, MICHAEL GEORGE, Axel Köhler, Julia Gooding

0:35

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

Christiane Oelze, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

5:02

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

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Marcus Creed, RIAS Kammerchor, Julia Gooding, John Mark Ainsley, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, MICHAEL GEORGE, Axel Köhler

3:42

Symphony

Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

1:53

Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" (Angel)

Marcus Creed, Julia Gooding, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MICHAEL GEORGE, Axel Köhler, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, John Mark Ainsley

1:10

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

Marcus Creed, Julia Gooding, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

4:41

Arioso. "For Ever Blessed Be" (Jephtha)

John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

1:30

Chorus. "Theme Sublime"

RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Catherine Denley, John Mark Ainsley, Christiane Oelze, MICHAEL GEORGE, Axel Köhler, Julia Gooding

3:25

Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" (Zebul)

Marcus Creed, MICHAEL GEORGE, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, John Mark Ainsley

0:29

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

MICHAEL GEORGE, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Axel Köhler, Catherine Denley, John Mark Ainsley, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

2:15

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

Marcus Creed, Catherine Denley, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Axel Köhler, John Mark Ainsley, MICHAEL GEORGE, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

0:19

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

Catherine Denley, Marcus Creed, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MICHAEL GEORGE, Axel Köhler, John Mark Ainsley, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

1:55

Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" (Hamor)

Marcus Creed, Axel Köhler, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MICHAEL GEORGE, Catherine Denley, John Mark Ainsley, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

0:20

Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" (Iphis)

Marcus Creed, Christiane Oelze, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

0:14

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

Axel Köhler, John Mark Ainsley, Marcus Creed, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, MICHAEL GEORGE, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

3:36

Chorus. "Ye House of Gilead"

Marcus Creed, RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, MICHAEL GEORGE, John Mark Ainsley, Axel Köhler, Catherine Denley, Christiane Oelze, Julia Gooding

3:21

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Catherine Denley

Mezzo-Soprano
Axel Köhler

Countertenor
Marcus Creed

Conductor
John Mark Ainsley

Tenor

Handel: Jeptha, HWV 70

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