Dame Jane Glover & Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra – Händel: Jephtha (CD)

Now in its fifth decade, Music of the Baroque is one of the leading professional ensembles in America devoted to 17th and 18th century works. The Chicago Sun-Times writes, “Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra may be the big guys on the local classical music scene, but in terms of sheer quality of performance…Music of the Baroque inhabits the same stratosphere.”

Acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours, has been Music of the Baroque’s music director since 2002. Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. She has worked with the period instrument orchestras Philharmonia Baroque and the Handel & Haydn Society. A Mozart specialist, she has conducted all the Mozart operas all over the world regularly, and her core operatic repertoire also includes Monteverdi, Handel, and Britten.

David Portillo, tenor (Jephtha)

Lauren Snouffer, soprano (Iphis)

Clara Osowski, mezzosoprano (Storgè)

Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor (Hamor)

Neal Davies, bassbaritone (Zebul)

Katelyn Lee, soprano (Angel)

We recommend the use of „L’Art du Son” CD/DVD conditioner for even more sonic improvement.

Lista pieselor

Disc 1

1. Overture

2. It must be so

3. Pour forth no more

4. No more to Ammon’s god and king

5. But Jephtha comes, kind heaven

6. Virtue my soul shall stil embrace

7. ‘Twill be a painful separation

8. In gentle murmurs will I mourn

9. Happy this embassy

10. Dull delay in piercing anguish

11. Ill suits the voice of love

12. Take the heard you fondly gave

13. I go, my soul

14. These labours past

15. What mean these doubtful fancies

16. If Lord, sustained

17. 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

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 spake

25. Glad tidings of great joy

26. Up the dreadful steep ascending

27. ‘Tis well, haste, haste, ye maidens

28. Tune the soft melodious lute

29. Again Heaven smiles

30. Freedom now once more

31. His mighty arm

32. In glory high

Disc 2

33. Hail, glorious conqueror

34. Welcome as the cheerful light

35. Welcome though, whose deeds

36. Horror! Confusion!

37. Open thy marble jaws

38. Why is my brother thus afflicted?

39. First perish though

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 his only child

50. Waft her, angels, through the skies

51. Ye sacred priests

52. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods

53. Doubtful fear and reverent awe

54. Rise, Jephtha, and ye reverend priests

55. Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live

56. For ever blessed be thy holy name

57. Theme sublime of endless praise

58. Let me congratulate

59. Laud her, all ye virgin train

60. O let me fold thee

61. With transport, Iphis

62. My faithful Hamor

63. All that is in Hamor mine

64. Ye house of Gilead

Artist	Dame Jane Glover & Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra
Format	CD
Casă de discuri	Reference Recordings
Gen muzical	Muzică clasică