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CHAN 0408(2)
Multiple Set of 2 CDs
JEPHTHA (1737) An Oratorio in Two Parts
Release Date: April 2025
Originally recorded in March 2024
Composer
Maurice Greene
Maurice Greene
Tenor Voice Jephtha
Andrew Staples
Andrew Staples
Soprano Voice Jephtha’s Daughter
Mary Bevan
Mary Bevan
Bass Voice First Elder of Gilead
Michael Mofidian
Michael Mofidian
Tenor Voice Second Elder of Gilead
Jeremy Budd
Jeremy Budd
Soprano Voice Soloist in duet ‘Awake each joyful Strain’
Carlin Music Delaware LLC
Carlin Music Delaware LLC
Choral Chorus of Elders, Soldiers, Virgins, &c.
Chorus of Early Opera Company
Chorus of Early Opera Company
Orchestra
Early Opera Company
Early Opera Company
Conductor
Christian Curnyn
Christian Curnyn
Producer
Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper
Engineer
Jonathan Cooper
Jonathan Cooper
Venue 4 - 8 March 2024
Church of St Augustine, Kilburn, London
Church of St Augustine, Kilburn, London
Genre:
Classical
Oratorio, Passion, liturgical drama
Classical
Oratorio, Passion, liturgical drama
Available: 18/APR/2025
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Jephtha
COMPACT DISC ONE: 40:33
MAURICE GREENE
première recording
JEPHTHA (1737)
98:52
An Oratorio in Two Parts
Libretto by John Hoadly (1711 – 1776)
Transcribed and edited 1996 by Peter Lynan
Scene before Jephtha’s House in the Land of Tob
1.
1
Overture. Grave – Allegro
3:37
Part I
Scene I
2.
2
Chorus: ‘Ye Sons of Gilead, seek the Lord’. Largo
3:13
3.
3
Recitative. First Elder: ‘Jair, great Judge of Israel, is no more’ with Second Elder
1:12
Scene II
4.
4
Accompanied Recitative. First Elder: ‘O mighty Leader, see, beneath thy Feet’. Largo – Presto – Largo
1:53
5.
5
Air. Jephtha: ‘Where are your Gods, your Idol-Train’. [Vivace]
5:12
6.
6
Recitative. First Elder: ‘Shameful Remembrance!
0:50
with repentant Tears’
7.
7
Duet. First and Second Elders: ‘O think what Joy to him igiv’n’. Vivace
2:20
8.
8
Recitative. Jephtha: ‘Ill doth my native Land such Grace deserve’
1:02
with Second Elder
9.
9
Air. Second Elder: ‘Against these new Alarms’. Vivace e Piano
3:38
10.
10
Recitative. Jephtha: ‘Hence, shameless Men! Compassion would be Guilt’
0:38
with Second Elder and All Elders
11.
11
Air. Jephtha: ‘Pity soothing melts the Soul’. Affettuoso e Piano
4:28
12.
12
Recitative. First Elder: ‘Cherish that Pity, ’tis a Godlike Guest’
0:36
13.
13
Chorus. Elders: ‘Our Prayers with God Acceptance find’. [Alla breve]
1:24
14.
14
Recitative. Jephtha: ‘Thought I your vow’d Repentance were sincere’
0:40
with First Elder
15.
15
Chorus: ‘Thou, universal Lord’. Allegro
3:22
16.
16
Recitative. Jephtha: ‘No more, with Joy I undertake your Cause’
0:37
17.
17
Air. Jephtha: ‘God of Hosts, whom we adore’. Allegro
2:01
18.
18
Accompanied Recitative. Jephtha: ‘There, what first shall meet my Eye’. Largo e Staccato e Piano
1:40
19.
19
Chorus: ‘God of Hosts, whom we adore’. Allegro – Adagio – Allergo
2:02
Total time: 40:33
COMPACT DISC TWO: 58:19
Part II
Scene I
1.
20
[Symphony.] [Maestoso]
1:03
2.
21
Grand Chorus: ‘The Foes of Gilead are no more’. Allegro
2:12
3.
22
Air. Jephtha: ‘O God, we own Thy mighty Hand’. Vivace
2:09
4.
23
Chorus: ‘Be all the Fame’. Tempo Ordinario
0:22
5.
24
Air [Jephtha’s Daughter], Duet, and Chorus: ‘Awake, awake each joyful Strain’. [Andante]
33:33
Scene II
6.
25
Accompanied Recitative. Jephtha: ‘What do I see, O Heav’n?’.
1:19
Presto – Adagio –
with Jephtha’s Daughter
7.
26
Air. Jephtha’s Daughter: ‘Ah! my foreboding Fears’.
7:55
Andante Vivace – Andante e Piano
8.
27
Recitative. Jephtha: ‘O Heav’n! with Pity view a Father’s Fondness’ –
0:43
9.
28
Air. Jephtha: ‘Thou sweetest Joy by Heav’n bestow’d’.
3:37
Affettuoso e Piano
10.
29
Recitative. Jephtha’s Daughter: ‘O speak, disclose my Doom, I stand prepar’d’
1:00
with Jephtha
11.
30
Air. Jephtha’s Daughter: ‘If I thy Grief’. Largo Andante
7:29
12.
31
Recitative. Jephtha’s Daughter: ‘O blot me from thy Mind’
0:41
with Jephtha
13.
32
Air. Jephtha: ‘O Thou most Dear’. Moderato
4:36
14.
33
Accompanied Recitative. Jephtha: ‘I vow’d, before I fought
1:21
15.
34
Chorus. Elders of Gilead: ‘O God of Might! what Means this Stroke?’. Vivace
1:29
16.
35
Air. First Elder: ‘But oh! behold the princely Pair’.
3:27
Largo e Staccato
17.
36
Chorus. Elders of Gilead: ‘But see! the dreadful Conflict’s o’er’.
1:36
Allegro
18.
37
Accompanied recitative. Jephtha: ‘Can Heav’n delight
3:05
in Guiltless Blood?’. [ ] – Presto – [ ] –
with Jephtha’s Daughter and All
19.
38
Air. Jephtha’s Daughter: ‘Let me awhile defer my Fate’.
2:03
Largo e Piano
20.
39
Accompanied Recitative. Jephtha: ‘Go, and with humble Tears,
1:03
and ceaseless Prayers’. [ ] – Andante – Presto – Largo e Piano –
21.
40
Duet and Chorus. Jephtha: ‘Here let me hold Thee to my Heart’.
2:16
Largo Andante
with Jephtha’s Daughter and Chorus
22.
41
Grand Chorus: ‘Israel’s Daughters, a fair Virgin Train’.
5:09
Vivace
Total time: 58:19
Choral: Chorus of Early Opera Company Chorus of Elders, Soldiers, Virgins, &c.
Orchestra: Early Opera Company
Conductor: Christian Curnyn
