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Jephtha HWV 70: 50. How dark O Lord are thy decrees!

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On Handel: Jephtha

2024 · 64 tracks

01Jephtha HWV 70: 36. Hail glorious conqueror0:28
01Jephtha HWV 70: 1. Overture3:17
02Jephtha HWV 70: 37. Welcome as the cheerful light2:00
02Jephtha HWV 70: 2. It must be so1:27
03Jephtha HWV 70: 3. Pour forth no more3:05
03Jephtha HWV 70: 38. Welcome though whose deeds1:01
04Jephtha HWV 70: 4. No more to Ammon's god and king2:55
04Jephtha HWV 70: 39. Horror! Confusion!0:25
05Jephtha HWV 70: 40. Open thy marble jaws4:36
05Jephtha HWV 70: 5. But Jephtha comes kind heaven0:59
06Jephtha HWV 70: 6. Virtue my soul shall stil embrace3:52
06Jephtha HWV 70: 41. Why is my brother thus afflicted?1:09
07Jephtha HWV 70: 42. First perish though2:22
07Jephtha HWV 70: 7. 'Twill be a painful separation0:28
08Jephtha HWV 70: 43. If such thy cruel purpose0:13
08Jephtha HWV 70: 8. In gentle murmurs will I mourn4:24
09Jephtha HWV 70: 9. Happy this embassy0:46
09Jephtha HWV 70: 44. On me let blind mistaken zeal1:33
10Jephtha HWV 70: 10. Dull delay in piercing anguish3:03
10Jephtha HWV 70: 45. O spare your daughter2:37
11Jephtha HWV 70: 46. Such news flies swift0:25
11Jephtha HWV 70: 11. Ill suits the voice of love0:25
12Jephtha HWV 70: 47. For joys so vast0:42
12Jephtha HWV 70: 12. Take the heard you fondly gave3:26
13Jephtha HWV 70: 13. I go my soul0:25
13Jephtha HWV 70: 48. Happy they3:00
14Jephtha HWV 70: 14. These labours past3:10
14Jephtha HWV 70: 49. Deeper and deeper still3:14
15Jephtha HWV 70: 15. What mean these doubtful fancies0:51
15Jephtha HWV 70: 50. How dark O Lord are thy decrees!7:23
16Jephtha HWV 70: 16. If Lord sustained0:41
16Jephtha HWV 70: 51. Hide thou thy hated beams2:17
17Jephtha HWV 70: 17. Tis said Attend ye Chiefs0:16
17Jephtha HWV 70: 52. A father off ring up his only child0:19
18Jephtha HWV 70: 18. O God behold our sore distress4:17
18Jephtha HWV 70: 53. Waft her angels through the skies3:57
19Jephtha HWV 70: 54. Ye sacred priests0:32
19Jephtha HWV 70: 19. Some dire event hangs o'er our heads0:26
20Jephtha HWV 70: 55. Farewell ye limpid springs and floods4:57
20Jephtha HWV 70: 20. Scenes of horror2:16
21Jephtha HWV 70: 56. Doubtful fear and reverent awe3:44
21Jephtha HWV 70: 21. Say my dear mother0:47
22Jephtha HWV 70: 58. Rise Jephtha and ye reverend priests1:05
22Jephtha HWV 70: 22. The smiling dawn of happy days2:35
23Jephtha HWV 70: 23. Such Jephtha was the haughty king's reply0:28
23Jephtha HWV 70: 59. Happy Iphis shalt thou live4:34
24Jephtha HWV 70: 24. When his loud voice in thunder spake4:30
24Jephtha HWV 70: 60. For ever blessed be thy holy name1:21
25Jephtha HWV 70: 61. Theme sublime of endless praise3:06
25Jephtha HWV 70: 25. Glad tidings of great joy1:15
26Jephtha HWV 70: 27. Up the dreadful steep ascending4:48
26Jephtha HWV 70: 62. Let me congratulate0:28
27Jephtha HWV 70: 28. 'Tis well haste haste ye maidens0:21
27Jephtha HWV 70: 63. Laud her all ye virgin train1:06
28Jephtha HWV 70: 64. O let me fold these0:18
28Jephtha HWV 70: 29. Tune the soft melodious lute1:55
29Jephtha HWV 70: 30. Again Heaven smiles0:23
29Jephtha HWV 70: 66. With transport Iphis0:18
30Jephtha HWV 70: 68. My faithful Hamor0:16
30Jephtha HWV 70: 31. Freedom now once more / 32. Zebul, thy deeds were valiant3:34
31Jephtha HWV 70: 33. His mighty arm2:22
31Jephtha HWV 70: 70. All that is in Hamor mine3:44
32Jephtha HWV 70: 34. In glory high2:33
32Jephtha HWV 70: 71. Ye house of Gilead3:26