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Handel: Jephtha

Dresden Frauenkirche & Dresden Barockorchester, Matthias Grünert

Handel: Jephtha
this account of arguably the greatest of Handel's late works captures its elegiac spirit perfectly...the account rises to a moving climax with Markus Schäfer's noble Jephtha and Miriam Meyer's...

The Observer, 8th March 2009

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Handel: Jephtha

Dresden Frauenkirche & Dresden Barockorchester, Matthias Grünert

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this account of arguably the greatest of Handel's late works captures its elegiac spirit perfectly...the account rises to a moving climax with Markus Schäfer's noble Jephtha and Miriam Meyer's...

The Observer, 8th March 2009

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Handel’s work on Jeptha in 1751 was repeatedly delayed as a result of his steadily progressing blindness. Even so, with Jeptha Handel created a musical masterpiece of baroque oratorio, with its great choruses, emotionally expressive arias and gripping ensembles. A fine line up of soloists with the Kammerchor of the Dresden Frauenkirche and the Dresden Barockorchester, conducted by Matthias Grünert, make this another excellent release from Carus, presented as part of their Handel anniversary year celebrations. Highly Recommended

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Pt. 1
Work length1:00:59
  • Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Markus Schäfer (tenor), Britta Schwarz (mezzo-soprano), Patrick Van Goethem (alto), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Britta Schwarz (alto)
  • Dresdner Barockorchester, Kammerchor der Frauenkirche
  • Matthias Grünert
  • Recorded: 2008-12-01
Overture
Track length5:39
Menuet
Track length1:29
Recitative: It Must Be so
Track length1:34
Aria: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Prayers
Track length5:18
Chorus: No More to Ammon's God and King
Track length2:50
Recitative: But Jephtha Comes
Track length1:06
Aria: Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
Track length4:07
Recitative: 'Twill Be a Painful Separation
Track length0:33
Aria: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
Track length4:45
Recitative: Happy This Embassy
Track length0:45
Aria: Dull Delay, in Piercing Anguish
Track length2:58
Recitative: Ill Suits the Voice of Love
Track length0:29
Aria: Take the Heart You Fondly Gave
Track length3:20
Recitative: I Go, My Soul, Inspir'd
Track length0:26
Duet: These Labours Past
Track length5:54
Recitative: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies
Track length0:49
Recitative: If, Lord, Sustain'd by Thy Almighty Pow'r
Track length0:38
Recitative: 'Tis Said
Track length0:16
Chorus: O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
Track length3:54
Recitative: Some Dire Event
Track length0:27
Aria: Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe
Track length4:13
Recitative: Say, My Dear Mother
Track length0:55
Aria: The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days
Track length3:25
Recitative: Such, Jephtha
Track length0:29
When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke
Track length4:40
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Pt. 2
Work length1:00:12
Recitative: Glad Tidings of Great Joy
Track length1:20
Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim
Track length3:02
Aria: Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending
Track length5:01
Recitative: 'Tis Well
Track length0:23
Aria: Tune the Soft Melodious Lute
Track length3:40
Recitative: Again Heav'n Smiles
Track length0:22
Aria: Freedom Now Once More Possessing
Track length3:18
Recitative: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant
Track length0:16
Aria: His Mighty Arm
Track length5:27
Chorus: In Glory High
Track length2:52
Symphony
Track length1:08
Recitative: Hail, Glorious Conqueror!
Track length0:23
Aria: Welcome as the Cheerful Light
Track length4:34
Recitative: Horror! Horror!
Track length0:26
Aria: Open Thy Marble Jaws
Track length4:15
Recitative: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted
Track length1:11
Recitative: First Perish Thou
Track length2:24
Recitative: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose
Track length0:17
Aria: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
Track length1:39
Quartet: O Spare Your Daughter
Track length2:33
Recitative: Such News Flies Swiftly
Track length0:31
Recitative: For Joys so Vast
Track length0:47
Aria: Happy They
Track length3:15
Recitative: Deeper and Deeper Still
Track length3:30
Chorus: How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees
Track length7:38
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 / Pt. 3
Work length38:48
  • Markus Schäfer (tenor), Miriam Meyer (soprano), Birte Kulawik (soprano), Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Britta Schwarz (mezzo-soprano), Patrick Van Goethem (alto)
  • Dresdner Barockorchester, Kammerchor der Frauenkirche
  • Matthias Grünert
  • Recorded: 2008-12-01
Recitative: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams
Track length2:27
Recitative: A father, Off'ring up His Only Child
Track length0:19
Aria: Waft Her, Angels
Track length3:41
Recitative: Ye Sacred Priests
Track length0:38
Aria: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs
Track length5:36
Chorus: Doubtful Fear
Track length3:37
Symphony
Track length2:42
Recitative: Rise Jephtha
Track length1:08
Aria: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live
Track length4:23
Aria: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name
Track length1:27
Chorus: Theme Sublime of Endless Praise
Track length3:13
Recitative: Let Me Congratulate
Track length0:32
Aria: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train
Track length2:13
Recitative: My Faithful Hamor
Track length0:17
Quintet: All That Is in Hamor Mine
Track length3:21
Chorus: Ye House of Gilead
Track length3:14
Excerpt,Handel: Jephtha
Work length0:32
Closing Applause
Track length0:32

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8th March 2009

this account of arguably the greatest of Handel's late works captures its elegiac spirit perfectly...the account rises to a moving climax with Markus Schäfer's noble Jephtha and Miriam Meyer's heartbreaking Iphis attains real intensity in the slow section of her final aria.
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