HANDEL, G.F.: Jephtha [Oratorio] (Ainsley)

Overture

Menuet

Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: It must be so (Zebul)

Act I Scene 1: Air: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)

Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)

Act I Scene 2: Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)

Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation (Storge)

Act I Scene 2: Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)

Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)

Act I Scene 3: Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)

Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)

Aria: Take the heart you fondly gave

Act I Scene 3: Recitative: I go, my soul (Hamor)

Act I Scene 3: Duet: These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)

Act I Scene 4: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies (Jephtha)

Act I Scene 4: Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain'd by thy almighty pow'r - Tis said. Attend, ye Chiefs (Jephtha)

Act I - "O God, Behold our Sore Distress"

Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Some dire event hangs o'er our heads (Storge)

Act I Scene 5: Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)

Act I Scene 6: Recitative: Say, my dear mother (Iphis, Storge)

Act I Scene 6: Air: The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)

Act I Scene 7: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)

Act I - "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke"

Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy (Hamor)

Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)

Act II Scene 1: Air: Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)

Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens (Iphis)

Act II - "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute"

Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Heav'n smiles once more (Jephtha)

Act II Scene 2: Air: His mighty arm (Jephtha)

Act II Scene 2: In glory high (Chorus)

Act II Scene 3: Symphony

Act II Scene 3: Hail, glorious conqueror! (Iphis)

Act II Scene 3: Air and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light … Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha)

Act II Scene 3: Air: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)

Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso: First perish thou - Let other creatures (Storge)

Act II Scene 3: Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose (Hamor)

Act II Scene 3: Air: On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)

Act II Scene 3: Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)

Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Such news flies swift (Iphis)

Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: For joys so vast (Iphis)

Act II Scene 4: Air: Happy they! (Iphis)

Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still (Jephtha)

Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)

Arioso: Hide thou thy hated beams

Accompagnato: A father, off'ring up

Aria: Waft her, angels

Act III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests (Iphis)

Act III - "Farewell, ye limpid springs"

Chorus: Doubtful fear and reverend awe

Sinfonia

Act III Scene 1: Recitative: Rise, Jephtha (Angel)

Act III Scene 1: Air: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live (Angel)

Act III Scene 1: Arioso: For ever blessed be (Jephtha)

Act III - "Theme Sublime of Endless Praise"

Act III Scene 2: Recitative: Let me congratulate (Zebul)

Act III Scene 2: Air: Laud her, all ye virgin train (Zebul)

Act III Scene 2: Recitative: O let me fold thee (Storge)

Act III Scene 2: Air: Sweet as sight to the blind (Storge)

Act III Scene 2: Recitative: With transport, Iphis (Hamor)

Act III Scene 2: Recitative: My faithful Hamor (Iphis)

Act III Scene 2: Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine (Iphis, Hamor, Storge, Jephtha, Zebul)

Act III - "Ye House of Gilead"