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Handel: Samson

Jon Vickers (Samson), Joan Carlyle (Dalila), Joan Sutherland (Israelite Woman), James Pease (Harapha), Lauris Elms (Micah), Joseph Rouleau (Manoah)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Raymond Leppard

Handel: Samson
It seems incredible that a singer of Heldentenor quality like Vickers could sing so stylishly in Handel, with elaborate divisions perfectly executed. Not only that, his portrayal of Samson is...

Gramophone Magazine, August 2011

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Handel: Samson

Jon Vickers (Samson), Joan Carlyle (Dalila), Joan Sutherland (Israelite Woman), James Pease (Harapha), Lauris Elms (Micah), Joseph Rouleau (Manoah)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Raymond Leppard

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It seems incredible that a singer of Heldentenor quality like Vickers could sing so stylishly in Handel, with elaborate divisions perfectly executed. Not only that, his portrayal of Samson is...

Gramophone Magazine, August 2011

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This performance was recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1959.

Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Handel: Samson
Work length4:09
Overture
Track length4:09
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act I
Work length35:56
Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
Track length1:58
Ye Men of Gaza
Track length4:21
Why By an Angel Was My Birth Foretold
Track length1:17
Total Eclipse! No. Sun, No Moon
Track length5:08
O First Created Beam!
Track length4:13
Brethren and Men of Dan
Track length1:07
To Sorrows Now I Tune My Song
Track length2:18
Justly These Evils Have BefalI'n Thy Son
Track length1:37
Why Does the God of lsrael Sleep?
Track length3:26
For Thee, My Dearest Son
Track length2:15
Then Long Eternity Shall Greet
Track length1:02
Joys That Are Pure, Sincerely Good
Track length3:50
Then Round About the Starry Throne
Track length3:24
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act II
Work length41:33
Did Love Constrain. Return, O God of Hosts
Track length4:12
But Who is This, That So Bedeck'd and Gay
Track length1:47
With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan
Track length4:26
Did Love Constrain Thee?
Track length0:55
Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way
Track length3:48
Forgive What's Done
Track length0:32
My Faith and Truth
Track length3:59
Let Me Approach, At Least, and Touch Thy Hand
Track length0:31
Traitor to Love! I’ll Sue No More
Track length1:39
She's gone! A Serpent Manifest
Track length2:25
Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe
Track length5:48
Cam'st Thou for This, Vain Boaster?
Track length0:53
Go, Baffled Coward, Go
Track length2:26
Here Lies the Proof
Track length1:02
Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!
Track length3:48
Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!
Track length0:19
Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat
Track length3:03
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act III
Work length46:19
More Trouble is Behind
Track length1:51
Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath!
Track length2:34
Consider, Samson, Matters Now Are Strain'd
Track length1:05
With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise!
Track length3:05
Be of Good Courage
Track length1:15
Thus When the Sun From's Wat'ry Bed
Track length4:34
Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe
Track length2:05
What Noise of Joy Was That?
Track length0:58
How Willing My Paternal Love
Track length4:04
Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry
Track length2:10
Ye Sons of lsrael
Track length4:33
Symphony. Dad March
Track length3:41
Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave
Track length4:13
Come, come! No Time for Lamentation Now
Track length0:42
Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row
Track length6:28
Samson HWV 57, Act III: Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite
Track length3:01

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August 2011

It seems incredible that a singer of Heldentenor quality like Vickers could sing so stylishly in Handel, with elaborate divisions perfectly executed. Not only that, his portrayal of Samson is deeply moving, thanks to vocal acting over as wide tonal and dynamic range.
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