Marcus Creed - Jephtha

One of the best recordings of Handel's large scale and impressive oratorio, Jephtha is played on period instruments by the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin. In the title role is renowned British lyric tenor John Mark Ainsley, who continues to enjoy an active international career.

1) Overture - Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
2) Menuet
3) It Must Be So
4) Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs
5) No More to Ammon's God and King
6) But Jephtha Comes
7) Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
8) 'Twill Be a Painful Separation
9) In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
10) Happy This Embassy My Charming Iphis
11) Dull Delay in Piercing Anguish
12) Ill Suits the Voice of Love
13) Take the Heart You Fondly Gave
14) I Go: - My Soul
15) These Labours Past How Happy We
16) What Mean These Doubtful Fancies
17) If Lord Sustain'd By Thy Almighty Pow'r - 'Tis Said. Attend Ye Chiefs
18) O God Behold Our Sore Distress
19) Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads
20) Scenes of Horror Scenes of Woe
21) Say My Dear Mother
22) The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days
23) Such Jephtha Was the Haughty King's Reply
24) When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke
25) Glad Tidings of Great Joy
26) Cherub and Seraphim Unbodied Forms
27) Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending
28) 'Tis Well. Haste Haste Ye Maidens
29) Tune the Soft Melodious Lute
30) Heav'n Smiles Once More
31) His Mighty Arm
32) In Glory High
33) Symphony - Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
34) Hail Glorious Conqueror
35) Welcome As the Cheerful Light - Welcome Thou Whose Deeds Conspire
36) Horror! Confusion!
37) Open Thy Marble Jaws O Tomb
38) Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
39) First Perish Thou - Let Other Creatures
40) If Such Thy Cruel Purpose
41) On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
42) O Spare Your Daughter
43) Such News Flies Swift
44) For Joys So Vast
45) Happy They!
46) Deeper and Deeper Still
47) How Dark O Lord Are Thy Decrees!
48) Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams
49) A Father Off'ring Up
50) Waft Her Angels
51) Ye Sacred Priests
52) Farewell Ye Limpid Springs
53) Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe
54) Symphony - Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin
55) Rise Jephtha
56) Happy Iphis Shalt Thou Live
57) For Ever Blessed Be
58) Theme Sublime
59) Let Me Congratulate
60) Laud Her All Ye Virgin Train
61) O Let Me Fold Thee
62) Sweet As Sight to the Blind
63) With Transport Iphis
64) My Faithful Hamor
65) All That Is in Hamor Mine
66) Ye House of Gilead