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Special offer. Handel: Samson

Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George, Jonathan Best

The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers

Handel: Samson

Special offer. Handel: Samson

Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George, Jonathan Best

The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers

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  • Release date: 1st Jun 2002
  • Label: Coro
  • Catalogue number: COR16008
  • Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
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Handel: Samson
Work length3:24:07
  • The Sixteen and Harry Christophers
Overture
Track length7:46
Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held
Track length0:32
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
Track length1:54
Air: Ye men of Gaza
Track length3:51
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2)
Track length0:29
Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice
Track length3:07
Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall
Track length2:34
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3)
Track length0:28
Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold
Track length0:52
Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd: Handel
Track length3:56
Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Track length0:56
Air: O mirror of our fickle state!
Track length2:44
Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself
Track length2:36
Air: Total eclipse!
Track length3:28
Recit: Since light so necessary is to life
Track length1:12
Chorus: Oh first created beam!
Track length3:34
Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round
Track length1:59
Recit: Brethren and men of Dan
Track length0:33
Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man
Track length0:44
Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!
Track length0:15
Air: God of our fathers, what is man?
Track length3:00
Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane
Track length1:04
Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue
Track length4:35
Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son
Track length1:35
Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close
Track length0:54
Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?
Track length4:34
Recit: There lies our hope!
Track length0:21
Chorus: Then shall they know
Track length2:19
Recit: For thee, my dearest son
Track length2:56
Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss
Track length5:26
Chorus: Then round about the starry throne
Track length2:09
Recit: Despair not thus!
Track length1:25
Air: Just are the ways of God to man
Track length3:26
Recit: My evils hopeless are!
Track length0:46
Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts!
Track length8:38
Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay
Track length3:15
Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan
Track length7:06
Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw
Track length0:54
Air: Your charms to ruin led the way
Track length3:36
Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure
Track length0:30
Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove
Track length6:14
Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court
Track length4:53
Recit: Ne'er think of that!
Track length1:27
Duet & Recit: Traitor to love!
Track length1:57
Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit
Track length4:12
Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he
Track length0:22
Chorus: To man God's universal law
Track length2:31
Recit: No words of peace
Track length1:38
Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe
Track length5:40
Recit: Put on your arms
Track length0:10
Air: My strength is from the living God
Track length2:53
Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd
Track length0:41
Duet: Go, baffled coward, go
Track length2:16
Recit: Here lie the proof
Track length0:46
Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear!
Track length3:14
Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!
Track length0:13
Air: To song and dance we give the day
Track length4:04
Chorus: To song and dance we give the day
Track length1:57
Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat
Track length3:03
Recitative: More trouble is behind
Track length1:23
Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath
Track length3:01
Recitative: Reflect then, Samson
Track length0:50
Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise
Track length2:55
Recitative: Be of good courage
Track length2:23
Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed
Track length3:54
Recitative: With might endued
Track length0:25
Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide / To fame immortal go
Track length2:22
Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps
Track length0:26
Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe
Track length4:28
Recitative: What noise of joy was that
Track length0:47
Air: How willing my paternal love
Track length3:36
Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain
Track length1:57
Recit: Noise call you this?
Track length0:40
Recitative: Where shall I run
Track length3:49
Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel / Weep Israel
Track length3:20
Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body
Track length0:46
Dead March
Track length3:06
Recit: The body comes
Track length1:10
Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave
Track length5:12
Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now
Track length1:02
Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
Track length6:25
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