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曲目:

George Frideric Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70

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. - 27. Up the dreadful steep ascending

28. 'Tis well, haste, haste, ye maidens

29. Tune the soft melodious lute

30. Again Heaven smiles

31. Freedom now once more

32. - 33. His mighty arm

34. In glory high

35. - 36. Hail, glorious conqueror

37. Welcome as the cheerful light

38. Welcome though, whose deeds

39. Horror! Confusion!

40. Open thy marble jaws

41. Why is my brother thus afflicted?

42. First perish though

43. If such thy cruel purpose

44. On me let blind mistaken zeal

45. O spare your daughter

46. Such news flies swift

47. For joys so vast

48. Happy they

49. Deeper and deeper still

50. How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees!

51. Hide thou thy hated beams

52. A father, off ring up his only child

53. Waft her, angels, through the skies

54. Ye sacred priests

55. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods

56. Doubtful fear and reverent awe

57. - 58. Rise, Jephtha, and ye reverend priests

59. Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live

60. For ever blessed be thy holy name

61. Theme sublime of endless praise

62. Let me congratulate

63. Laud her, all ye virgin train

64. O let me fold thee

65. - 66. With transport, Iphis

67. - 68. My faithful Hamor

69. - 70. All that is in Hamor mine