Jephtha HWV 70 -Oratorio in three acts- Oratorio in 3 acts 韓德爾 神劇 騎熊士版

耶弗他 是亨德爾的最後一部清唱劇。1751 年，亨德爾因雙目失明而多次中斷作曲。1752 年 2 月在考文特花園劇院的首場演出是他完全失明前指揮的最後一場演出。

作曲家: Handel, George Frideric
改編者: Focke, Martin
校訂者: Nott, Kenneth
樂器: vocal score 聲樂總譜
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
原文簡介:
“Jephtha” is Handel’s last oratorio. Handel had to break off from composing several times because of his increasing blindness in 1751. The first performance at the Covent Garden Theatre in February 1752 was the last performance he conducted before he went completely blind.

In “Jephtha”, Handel succeeded in achieving the perfect fusion between a biblical plot and the spirit of classical tragedy. With great intensity and dramatic expression he highlighted in particular the fates of Jephtha and Iphis , thereby portraying convincing and complex characters.

The chorus “How Dark, O Lord, are Thy Decrees” at the end of part two is of crucial importance in the work and is regarded as the dramatic high point of the oratorio.

The vocal score is based on volume I/30 of the “Halle Handel Edition” (BA 4014), which contains the complete critical version of the music of the oratorio for the first time.

- Handel’s last oratorio based on the Urtext of the Halle Handel Edition

- First critical edition of this work

- Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng)

- Clear straightforward piano reduction