HANDEL, Emma Kirkby, Jurgen Budday, Maulbronn Chamber Choir – Jephtha

George Frideric Handel - Handel: Jephtha [Budday] (Disc 1) 01. Overture (4:19) 02. Act 1: It must be so - or these vile ammonites. (4:45) 03. Act 1: No more to Ammon's god and king. (3:13) 04. Act 1: Virtue my soul shall still embrace. (4:59) 05. Act 1: In gentle murmurs will I mourn. (5:23) 06. Act 1: Dull delay in piercing anguish. (3:53) 07. Act 1: Take the heart you fondly gave. (4:07) 08. Act 1: These labours past, how happy. (6:26) 09. Act 1: What mean these doubtful fancies of the brain? (2:38) 10. Act 1: O God, behold our sore distress. (4:35) 11. Act 1: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply. (0:29) 12. Act 1: When his loud voice in thunder spoke. (5:03) 13. Act 2: Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis. (1:19) 14. Act 2: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms. (3:19) 15. Act 2: Up the dreadul steep ascending. (5:50) 16. Act 2: Tune the soft melodius lute. (4:09) 17. Act 2: His mighty arm, with sudden blow, dispers'd. (6:17) 18. Act 2: In glory high, in might serene. (3:12) George Frideric Handel - Handel: Jephtha [Budday] (Disc 2) 01. Act 2 - Sinfonia (1:24) 02. Act 2 - Welcome, as the cheerful light (4:18) 03. Act 2 - Open thy marble jaws, O tomb. (5:27) 04. Act 2 - First perish thou; and perish all the world! (1:10) 05. Act 2 - Let other creatures die. (2:25) 06. Act 2 - On me let blind mistaken zeal. (2:12) 07. Act 2 - O spare your daughter! - Spare my child! - My love! (2:58) 08. Act 2 - Such news flies swift; - I've heard the mournful cause. (1:24) 09. Act 2 - Happy they! This vital breath with content I shall resign. (3:42) 10. Act 2 - Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness, child. (3:49) 11. Act 2 - How dark, O lord, are they decrees. (9:29) 12. Act 3 - Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun, in clouds. (2:31) 13. Act 3 - Waft her, angels through the skies. (3:25) 14. Act 3 - Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne'er yet were stain'd. (5:21) 15. Act 3 - Doubtful fear, and reverend awe. (4:13) 16. Act 3 - Rise, Jephtha. And ye reverend priests. (5:00) 17. Act 3 - For ever blessed be thy holy name. (1:35) 18. Act 3 - Theme sublime of endless praise. (3:27) 19. Act 3 - Let me congratulate this happy turn. (2:25) 20. Act 3 - O let me fold thee in a mother's arms. (2:34) 21. Act 3 - All that is in Hamor/Iphis mine, freely to heaven resign. (4:22) 22. Act 3 - Ye house of Gilead, with one voice in blessings manifold rejoice. (4:10)