Handel: Jephtha
Accompagnato. It must be so, or these vile Ammonites (Zebul)
Air. Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)
No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)
Recitative. But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)
Air. Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)
Recitative. Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha (Storge)
Air. In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)
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 fondly 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 of the brain? (Jephtha)
O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)
Recitative. Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)
Air. Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)
Recitative. Say, my dear mother, whence these piercing cries (Iphis, Storge)
Air. The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)
Recitative. Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)
When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)
Recitative. Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis (Hamor)
Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)
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 on his repentant people (Jephtha)
Air. His mighty arm, with sudden blow (Jephtha)
In glory high, in might serene (Chorus)
Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)
Air and Chorus. Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)
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, and perish all the world! - Let other creatures (Storge)
Recitative. If such thy cruel purpose, lo, your friend (Hamor)
Air. On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)
Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
Recitative. Such news flies swift (Iphis)
Air. Happy they! (Iphis)
Accompagnato. Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness, child (Jephtha)
How dark, O Lord, Are thy decrees! (Chorus)
Arioso. Hide thou thy hated beams (Jephtha)
Air. Waft her, angels, through the skies (Jephtha)
Accompagnato. Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne’er yet were stain'd (Iphis)
Air. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods (Iphis)
Doubtful fear and reverend awe (Chorus)
Recitative. Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev’rend priests, withhold (Angel)
Air. Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live (Angel)
Arioso. For ever blessed be Thy holy name (Jephtha)
Theme sublime of endless praise (Chorus)
Recitative. Let me congratulate, This happy turn (Zebul)
Air. Laud her, all ye virgin train (Zebul)
Recitative. O let me fold thee in a mother's arms (Storge)
Air. Sweet as sight to the blind (Storge)
Recitative. With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety (Hamor)
Recitative. With transport… - Aria. 'Tis Heaven's all ruling power… (Hamor)
Recitative. My faithful Hamor, may That Providence (Iphis)
Quintet: All That Is in Hamor mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul)
Ye house of Gilead, with one voice (Chorus)