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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet
English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
05:11
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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
01:23
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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
02:51
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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
02:55
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "But Jephta comes"
Stephen Varcoe, Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
00:53
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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
04:07
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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
04:59
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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
03:50
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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
04:14
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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 & John Eliot Gardiner
07:28
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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
01:57
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "O God, behold our sore distress"
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
04:34
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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
04:57
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 1: "Say, my dear mother"
Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
00:53
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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
03:33
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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 & John Eliot Gardiner
00:26
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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
04:39
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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
01:15
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:12
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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
04:15
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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
04:42
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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
06:28
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "In glory high, in might serene"
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
02:32
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Handel: Jephtha / Act 2: Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"
Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
01:30
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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
03:52
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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
04:59
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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 & John Eliot Gardiner
00:58
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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
02:20
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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
01:48
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "O spare your daughter"
Stephen Varcoe, Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:13
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Such news flies swift"
Lynne Dawson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
01:21
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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
03:30
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "Deeper, and deeper still"
Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:26
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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
08:04
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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
03:03
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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
04:29
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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
06:27
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:50
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: Symphony
English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
02:44
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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
01:01
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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
04:00
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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
01:29
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Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 3: "Theme sublime of endless praise"
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:23
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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
02:22
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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
02:16
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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, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner
03:37
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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
03:00
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Applause
00:18
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