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James Gilchrist

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: "How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees"

James Gilchrist

Handel: Jephtha

7 MINUTES AND 26 SECONDS

Album Tracklist

1
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I: Overture
07:30
2
Jephtha, HWV.70, Act I, Scene 1: Accompagnato. "It Must Be So" - Air. "Pour Forth No More"
04:17
3
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 1: "No More to Ammon's God and King"
02:43
4
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "But Jephtha Comes" - Air. "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace"
04:45
5
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 3: Recitative. "'Twill Be a Painful Separation" - Air. "In Gentle Murmurs"
05:01
6
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 3: Recitative. "Happy This Embassy" - Air. "Dull Delay"
03:44
7
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 3: Recitative. "Ill Suits the Voice of Love" - Air. "Take the Heart"
03:36
8
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 3: Recitative. "I Go; My Soul" - Duet. "These Labors Past"
06:40
9
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 4: Recitative. "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" - Accompagnato. "If, Lord" - Recitative. "'Tis Said"
02:00
10
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 4: "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress"
04:16
11
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Some Dire Event" - Air. "Scenes of Horror"
04:57
12
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Say, My Dear Mother" - Air. "The Smiling Dawn"
03:43
13
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" - "When His Loud Voice Spoke in Thunder"
05:14
14
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 1: Recitative. "Glad Tidings of Great Joy to Thee"
01:18
15
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 1: "Cherub and Seraphim"
03:16
16
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 1: Air. "'Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending"
04:07
17
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "'Tis Well" - Air. "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute"
05:13
18
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "Heav'n Smiles Once More" - Air. "His Mighty Arm"
05:55
19
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 2: "In Glory High, in Might Serene"
02:31
20
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2, Scene III: Symphony
01:08
21
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Recitative. "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" - Air. "Welcome as the Cheerful Light"
04:18
22
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Recitative. "Horror! Confusion!" - Air. "Open thy marble jaws"
04:52
23
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Recitative. "Why is My Brother Thus Afflicted?"
01:08
24
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Accompagnato and Air. "First Perish Thou"
02:18
25
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Recitative. "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" - Air. "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal"
02:10
26
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 3: Quartet. "O Spare Your Daughter"
03:12
27
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: Recitative. "Such News Flies Swift" - Accompagnato. "For Joys so Vast"
01:15
28
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: Air. "Happy They; This Vital Breath"
03:50
29
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: Accompagnato. "Deeper and Deeper Still"
03:17
30
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: "How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees"
07:26
31
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Air. "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, in Clouds"
02:42
32
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Accompagnato. "A Father Off'ring Up" - Air. "Waft Her, Angels"
05:18
33
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Accompagnato. "Ye Sacred Priests" - Air. "Fairwell, ye Limpid Springs and Floods"
05:33
34
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: "Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe"
03:55
35
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Sinfonia
02:39
36
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha" - Air. "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live"
05:15
37
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: Air. "For Ever Blessed by Thy Holy Name"
01:01
38
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 1: "Theme Sublime of Endless Praise"
03:16
39
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 2: Recitative. "Let Me Congratulate" - Air. "Laud Her, all ye Virgin Train"
02:38
40
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 2: Recitative. "Oh, Let Me Fold Thee in a Mother's Arms" - Air. "Sweet as Sight to the Blind"
02:46
41
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 2: Recitative. "With Transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heav'n's All-Ruling Pow'r"
05:26
42
Jephtha, HWV.70, Act III, Scene 2: Recitative. "My Faithful Hamor" - Quintet. "All That is in Hamor is Mine"
03:50
43
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act III, Scene 2: "Ye House of Gilead, With One Voice"
03:49
44
Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "Again Heav'n Smiles" - Air. "Freedom Now"
04:01
Handel: Jephtha
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Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II, Scene 4: "How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees"
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