Handel: Jeptha – Lynne Dawson, Ruth Holton, Anne Sofie von Otter & Michael Chance

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

5:11

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"

Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:24

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"

Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:52

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "No more to Ammon's god and king"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:55

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "But Jephta comes"

Stephen Varcoe, Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

0:53

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:07

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta...In gentle murmurs will I mourn"

Anne Sofie von Otter, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:59

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis...Dull delay, in piercing anguish"

Michael Chance, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:51

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls...Take the heart you fondly gave"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:15

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command...These labours past, how happy we!"

Michael Chance, Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

7:28

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "What mean these doubtful fancies"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:57

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "O God, behold our sore distress"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

4:34

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads...Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"

Anne Sofie von Otter, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:58

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Say, my dear mother"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

0:53

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "The smiling dawn of happy days"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:33

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"

Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

0:27

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

4:39

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"

Michael Chance, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:15

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:13

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Up the dreadful steep ascending"

Michael Chance, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:15

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens...Tune the soft melodious lute"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:43

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people...His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

6:28

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "In glory high, in might serene"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:32

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Handel: Jephtha / Act 2: Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:31

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Welcome as the cheerful light"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:53

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Horror! confusion!...Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

5:00

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Why is my brother thus afflicted"

Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists

0:58

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "First perish thou, and perish all the world"

Anne Sofie von Otter, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:20

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "If such thy cruel purpose...On me let blind mistaken zeal"

Michael Chance, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:48

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "O spare your daughter"

Stephen Varcoe, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance & Nigel Robson

3:13

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Such news flies swift"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:21

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Happy they! this vital breath"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:30

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Deeper, and deeper still"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:26

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

8:04

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

3:03

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Waft her, angels, through the skies"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:30

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Handel: Jephtha / Act 3: "Ye sacred priests...Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"

Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

6:28

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:50

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: Symphony

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

2:45

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"

Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:01

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"

Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

4:00

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

1:29

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Theme sublime of endless praise"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:24

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Let me congratulate this happy turn...Laud her, all ye virgin train"

Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:22

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms...Sweet as sight

Anne Sofie von Otter, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

2:16

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence...All that is in Hamor mine"

Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Michael Chance & Anne Sofie von Otter

3:38

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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

3:00

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Applause

Nigel Robson, Lynne Dawson, Anne Sofie von Otter & Michael Chance

0:19