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Handel: Jephtha / Grunert, Kulawik, Meyer, Schafer


Release Date: 06/09/2009 
Label:  Carus   Catalog #: 83422   Spars Code: n/a 
Composer:  George Frideric Handel
Performer:  Patrick Van Goethem,  Britta Schwarz,  Miriam Meyer,  Gotthold Schwarz,   ... 
Conductor:  Matthias Grünert
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dresden Baroque Orchestra,  Dresden Frauenkirche Chamber Choir
Number of Discs: 3 
Recorded in: Multi 
Length: 2 Hours 40 Mins. 

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Works on This Recording

1. Jephtha, HWV 70 by George Frideric Handel
Performer:  Patrick Van Goethem (Countertenor), Britta Schwarz (Alto), Miriam Meyer (Soprano),
Gotthold Schwarz (Bass), Markus Schäfer (Tenor)
Conductor:  Matthias Grünert
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dresden Baroque Orchestra,  Dresden Frauenkirche Chamber Choir
Period: Baroque 
Written: 1752; London, England 
 Length: 147 Minutes 55 Secs. 

Sound Samples

Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture
Jephtha, HWV 70: Menuet
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: It must be so (Zebul)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: Air: Pour forth no more unheeded prayr's (Zebul)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 1: No more to Ammon's god and king (Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Recitative: But Jephtha comes (Zebul, Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation (Storge)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 2: Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn (Storge)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis (Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish (Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Air: Take the heart you fondly gave (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 3: Duet: These labours past, how happy we (Iphis, Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 4: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 4: Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain'd by thy almighty pow'r (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 4: O God, behold our sore distress (Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 5: Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe (Storge)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 6: Recitative: Say, my dear mother (Iphis, Storge)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 6: Air: The smiling dawn of happy days (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 7: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply (Zebul, Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act I Scene 7: When his loud voice in thunder spoke (Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Glad tidings of great joy (Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms (Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Air: Up the dreadful steep ascending (Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 1: Air: Tune the soft melodious lute (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: Freedom now (Zebul)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: Air: His mighty arm (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 2: In glory high (Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Symphony
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light ... Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire (Iphis, Chorus)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air: Open thy marble jaws, O tomb (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato and Arioso: First perish thou - Let other creatures (Storge)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Air: On me let blind mistaken zeal (Hamor)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 3: Quartet: O spare your daughter! (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Recitative: Such news flies swift (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: For joys so vast (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Air: Happy they! (Iphis)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: Accompagnato: Deeper and deeper still (Jephtha)
Jephtha, HWV 70: Act II Scene 4: How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees! (Chorus)

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