Jephtha HWV 70

• Overture
  07:31

Act I

• 1. Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" - Air. "Pour Forth No More"
  04:18
• 2. "No More to Ammon's God and King"
  02:44
• 3. Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" - Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace"
  04:45
• 4. Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" - Air. "In Gentle Murmurs"
  05:01
• 5. Recitative. "Happy This Embassy" - Air. "Dull Delay"
  03:44
• 6. Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" - Air. "Take the Heart"
  03:37
• 7. Recitative. "I Go; My Soul" - Duet. "These Labors Past"
  06:40
• 8. Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" - Accompagnato. "If, Lord" - Recitative. "'Tis Said"
  02:00
• 9. "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"
  04:17
• 10. Recitative. "Some Dire Event" - Air. "Scenes of Horror"
  04:57
• 11. Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" - Air. "The Smiling Dawn"
  03:43
• 12. Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" - "When His Loud Voice Spoke in Thunder"
  05:14

Act II

• 1. Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy to Thee"
  01:19
• 2. "Cherub and Seraphim"
  03:17
• 3. Air. "'Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending"
  04:08
• 4. Recitative. "'Tis Well" - Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute"
  05:13
• 5. Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" - Air. "His Mighty Arm"
  05:56
• 6. "In Glory High, in Might Serene"
  02:31
• 7. Symphony
  01:08
• 8. Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" - Air. "Welcome as the Cheerful Light"
  04:19
• 9. Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" - Air. "Open thy marble jaws"
  04:52
• 10. Recitative. "Why is My Brother Thus Afflicted?"
  01:08
• 11. Accompagnato and Air. "First Perish Thou"
  02:19
• 12. Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" - Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal"
  02:10
• 13. Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter"
  03:12
• 14. Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" - Accompagnato. "For Joys so Vast"
  01:16
• 15. Air. "Happy They; This Vital Breath"
  03:51
• 16. Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still"
  03:17
• 17. "How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees"
  07:27

Act III

• 1. Air. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, in Clouds"
  02:43
• 2. Accompagnato. "A Father Off'ring Up" - Air. "Waft Her, Angels"
  05:18
• 3. Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" - Air. "Fairwell, ye Limpid Springs and Floods"
  05:33
• 4. "Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe"
  03:56
• 5. Sinfonia
  02:40
• 6. Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" - Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live"
  05:15
• 7. Air. "For Ever Blessed by Thy Holy Name"
  01:01
• 8. "Theme Sublime of Endless Praise"
  03:16
• 9. Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" - Air. "Laud Her, all ye Virgin Train"
  02:39
• 10. Recitative. "Oh, Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother's Arms" - Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind"
  02:47
• 11. Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heav'n's All-Ruling Pow'r"
  05:26
• 12. Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" - Quintet. "All That is in Hamor is Mine"
  03:51
• 13. "Ye House of Gilead, With One Voice"
  03:50

Appendix

• Recitative. "Again Heav'n Smiles" - Air. "Freedom Now"
  04:01