Friday, 21 June 2019

Handel - Jephtha [& Chandos Anthem No.2] (Neville Marriner) [3CD]


London (Decca) 1990 [1979] | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 3CDs + booklet | 957MB


JEPHTHA, Oratorio in three Acts, HWV 70


performed by

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor (Jephtha)

Margaret Marshall, soprano (Iphis)

Alfreda Hodgson, contralto (Storge)

Paul Esswood, countertenor (Hamor)

Christopher Keyte, bass (Zebul)

Emma Kirkby, soprano (Angel)


Southend Boys' Choir

Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

(on modern instruments)

Neville Marriner, dir.

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CD 3 also contains:

Chandos Anthem No. 2 'In the Lord put I my trust'

Philip Langridge, tenor

Choir of Kings' College, Cambridge

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields


David Willcocks, dir.

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Recordings: King's College Chapel, Cambridge, 1974 (Chandos Anthem); St. Jude-on-the-Hill, London, 3/1979 (Jephtha)
TT: 215'56'' [Jephtha: 172'17'']