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George Frideric Handel
Discography
Handel: Samson
Handel: Samson
Featuring
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
and
Raymond Leppard
Release year
2015
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Tracklist
1
Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
2
Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
3
Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)
4
Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)
5
Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
6
Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)
7
ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
8
Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
9
Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)
10
With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)
11
Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)
12
Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)
13
Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
14
Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)
15
Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)
16
Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)
17
Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)
18
Symphony: dead march
19
Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)
20
Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)
21
Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
22
Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)
23
SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony
24
ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)
25
Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
26
Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)
27
Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)
28
Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)
29
Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)
30
Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)
31
Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)
32
Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)
33
Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)
34
Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)
35
Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)
36
Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)
37
ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)
38
Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)
39
Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)
40
Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
41
Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
42
Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)
43
Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)
44
Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)
45
Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)
46
Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
47
Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)