Handel: Oratorium Jephtha. Maulbronner Kammerchor, Ensemble Il Capriccio, Jürgen Budday

1 Overture
2 Accompagnato: It must be so, or these vile Ammonities
3 Arie: Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs
4 Chor: No more to Ammon's god and king
5 Rezitativ: But Jeptha comes
6 Arie: Virtue my soul shall still embrace
7 Rezitativ: Twill be a painful separation, Jeptha - Arie: In gentle murmurs will I mourn
8 Rezitativ: Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis
9 Arie: Dulldelay, in piercing anguish
10 Rezitativ: Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls - Arie: Take the heart you fondly gave
11 Rezitativ: I go - Duett: These labours past, how happy we!
12 Rezitativ: What mean thsese doubtful fancies of the brain? - Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustain'd by Thy almighty pow'r
13 Chro: O God, behold our sore distress
14 Rezitativ: Such, Jeptha, was the haughty king's reply
15 Chor: When His loud voice in thunder spoke
16 Rezitativ: Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis
17 Chor: Cherub and seraphim, unbodied forms
18 Arie: Up the dreadful steep ascending
19 Rezitativ: 'Tis well - Arie: Tune the soft melodius lute
20 Rezitativ: Again heav'n smiles once more on His repentant people - Rezitativ: Zebul, thy deeds were valiant
21 Arie: His mighty arm, with sudden blow
22 Chor: In glory high, in might serene
1 Sinfonia - Rezitativ: Hail, glorious conqueror, much lov'd father, hail!
2 Arie: Welcome as the cheerful light - Chor: Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire - Rezitativ: Horror, confusion!
3 Arie: Open thy marble jaws
4 Rezitativ: Why is my brother thus afflicted?
5 Accompagnato: First perish thou, and perish all the world! - Arie: Let other creatures die?
6 Rezitativ: If such cruel purpose, lo, your friend - Arie: On me let blind mistaken zeal her utmost rage employ
7 Quartett: Oh, spare your daughter
8 Rezitativ: Such news flies swift - Accompagnato: For joys so vast too little is the price
9 Arie: Happy they!
10 Accompagnato: Deeper, and deeper still, thy goodness, child
11 Chor: How dark, o Lord, are Thy decrees
12 Arie: Hide thou hated beams - Accompagnato: A father, off'ring up his only child
13 Arie: Waft her, angels, through the skies
14 Accompagnato: Ye sacred priests, whose hands ne'er yet were stain'd - Arie: Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods
15 Chor: Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe
16 Sinfonia
17 Rezitativ: Rise, Jeptha, and ye rev'rend priests, withhold - Arie: Happy, Iphis shalt thou live
18 Arioso: For ever blessed be Thy holy name, Lord God of Israel!
19 Chor: Theme sublime of endless praise
20 Rezitativ: Le me congratulate this happy turn - Air: Laud her, all ye virgin train
21 Rezitativ: Oh, let me fold thee in a mother's arms - Arie: Sweet as sight to the blind
22 Rezitativ: With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety - Rezitativ: My faithful Hamor, may that Provicence
23 Arie: All that is in Iphis - Duet - Quintett - Chor: Ye housee of Gilead