Raymond Leppard

Handel: Samson

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Release date 2015
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Tracklist

1
Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
0:53
0:53
2
Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
2:26
2:26
3
Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)
1:02
1:02
4
Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)
3:48
3:48
5
Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
0:19
0:19
6
Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)
3:08
3:08
7
ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
1:51
1:51
8
Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
2:34
2:34
9
Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)
1:05
1:05
10
With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)
3:05
3:05
11
Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)
1:15
1:15
12
Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)
4:34
4:34
13
Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
2:05
2:05
14
Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)
0:58
0:58
15
Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)
4:04
4:04
16
Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)
2:10
2:10
17
Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)
4:33
4:33
18
Symphony: dead march
3:41
3:41
19
Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)
4:13
4:13
20
Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)
0:42
0:42
21
Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
6:28
6:28
22
Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)
3:01
3:01
23
SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony
4:09
4:09
24
ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)
1:58
1:58
25
Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
4:21
4:21
26
Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)
1:17
1:17
27
Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)
5:08
5:08
28
Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)
4:13
4:13
29
Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)
1:07
1:07
30
Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)
2:18
2:18
31
Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)
1:37
1:37
32
Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)
3:26
3:26
33
Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)
2:15
2:15
34
Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)
1:02
1:02
35
Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)
3:50
3:50
36
Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)
3:28
3:28
37
ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)
4:12
4:12
38
Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)
1:47
1:47
39
Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)
4:26
4:26
40
Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
0:55
0:55
41
Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
3:48
3:48
42
Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)
0:32
0:32
43
Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)
3:59
3:59
44
Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)
0:31
0:31
45
Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)
1:39
1:39
46
Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
2:25
2:25
47
Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)
5:48
5:48