Jephte or Historia di Jephte is an important exemplar of the mid-17th-century Historia Sacra form composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Carissimi">Giacomo Carissimi</a> around 1650 (probably 1648), based on the story of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jephtha">Jephtha</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament">Old Testament</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judges">Book of Judges</a>. The work follows what is considered the classic early Baroque oratorio form with a Biblical text related by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music)">soloists</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choir">chorus</a> linked by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrator">narrator</a>. The only known contemporaneous score is for organ continuo alone though this is sometimes augmented in performance by violins and string bass, for which some support exists in other works by the composer.Purchase the music (without talk) at Itunes or Amazon. Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!<a href="http://www.classicalmusicdiscoveries.store/donate.html">Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store)</a> staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Episode 54: 19054 Carissima - History of Jephte

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