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Special offer. Handel: Samson

Matthew Newlin, Julie Roset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Luigi Di Donato, Klara Ek, Maxime Melnik, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón

Handel: Samson
This live recording captures a panoply of moods and colours abetted by theatrical vitality and predominantly brisk pacing...the Millenium Orchestra’s broad textural palette is matched by the...

Gramophone Magazine, October 2020

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Special offer. Handel: Samson

Matthew Newlin, Julie Roset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Luigi Di Donato, Klara Ek, Maxime Melnik, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón

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This live recording captures a panoply of moods and colours abetted by theatrical vitality and predominantly brisk pacing...the Millenium Orchestra’s broad textural palette is matched by the...

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Samson is not merely an effective narrative, but also a drama of great psychological depth. Over its three acts, we witness the slow but inexorable mental resurrection of a man chosen by God who, overcome by remorse, gradually rebuilds his character. Awareness of his error sustains him and helps him to conceive a decisive reversal of his situation. Though held in chains and for ever deprived of his sight, Samson nevertheless gradually becomes convinced that his strength is intact. In order to set Israel free, he will succeed in regaining God’s mercy and destroying his captors’ people at a single blow. This recording was made live during the Namur Music Festival in July 2018.

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Samson
Work length2:28:13
Overture
Track length4:56
I. Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held"
Track length0:39
II. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
Track length1:42
III. Air. "Ye Men of Gaza, Hither Bring"
Track length3:49
IV. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
Track length0:25
V. Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold"
Track length4:27
I. Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report"
Track length3:45
II. Recitative. "Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself"
Track length1:32
III. Air. "Total Eclipse!"
Track length3:38
IV. Accompagnato. "Since Light So? Necessary Is to Life"
Track length1:13
V. Chorus. "O First Created Beam!"
Track length3:42
VI. Recitative. "Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclose Me Round"
Track length3:06
I. Air. "Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue"
Track length1:45
II. Accompagnato. "To Sorrow Now I Tune"
Track length2:04
III. Recitative. "Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son"
Track length0:19
IV. Accompagnato. "My Genial Spirits Droop, My Hopes Are Fled"
Track length2:29
V. Chorus. "Then Round About the Starry Throne"
Track length2:08
I. Recitative and Air. "Trust yet in God! - Return, O God of Hosts! Behold"
Track length7:46
I. Recitative. "But Who Is This, That so Bedeck'd and Gay"
Track length0:49
II. Recitative. "With Doubtful Feet"
Track length1:39
III. Air. "With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan"
Track length7:26
IV. Recitative. "Did Love Constrain Thee?"
Track length0:32
V. Air. "Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way"
Track length2:47
VI. Recitative. "Forgive What's Done, nor Think of What's Past Cure"
Track length0:38
VII. Air. "My Faith and Truth, O Samson"
Track length6:41
VIII. Air. "To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court"
Track length1:27
IX. Chorus of Virgins. "Her Faith and Truth, Oh Samson"
Track length1:57
X. Recitative. "Ne'er Think of That!"
Track length1:24
XI. Duet. "Traitor to Love!" - "Traitress to Love!"
Track length1:30
I. Recitative. "She's Gone!"
Track length0:38
II. Chorus of Israelites. "To Man God's Universal Law"
Track length2:35
I. Recitative. "No Words of Peace"
Track length2:07
II. Air. "Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe"
Track length4:16
III. Recitative. "Cam'st Thou for This, Vain Boaster?"
Track length0:37
IV. Duet. "Go, Baffled Coward, Go" - "Presume No on Thy God"
Track length2:02
V. Recitative. "Here Lies the Proof"
Track length0:47
VI. Chorus of Israelites. "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!"
Track length3:40
VII. Recitative. "Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!"
Track length0:18
VIII. Air. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
Track length1:18
IX. Chorus of Philistines. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
Track length1:47
X. Chorus of Israelites and Philistines. "Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat"
Track length3:22
I. Recitative. "More Trouble Is Behind"
Track length1:35
II. Air. "Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath!"
Track length2:28
III. Recitative. "Reflect Then Samson, Matters Now Are"
Track length0:52
IV. Chorus of Israelites. "With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise!"
Track length3:11
V. Recitative. "Be of Good Courage, I Begin to Feel"
Track length2:21
VI. Air. "Thus When the Sun from's Wat'ry Bed"
Track length3:42
VII. Accompagnato. "With Might Endu'd Above the Sons of Men"
Track length0:26
VIII. Air and Chorus. "The Holy One of Israel Be Thy Guide"
Track length2:12
I. Recitative. "Old Manoah, with Youthful Steps"
Track length0:31
II. Air. "Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe"
Track length3:35
III. Recitative. "What Noise of Joy Was That?"
Track length0:49
IV. Air. "How Willing My Paternal Love"
Track length3:33
V. Recitative. "Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry Seem not Vain"
Track length2:13
VI. Recitative. "Noise Call You This?"
Track length2:37
I. Air & Chorus. "Ye Sons of lsrael, Now Lament"
Track length3:55
II. Symphony. Dead March
Track length2:21
III. Recitative. "The Body Comes"
Track length1:02
IV. Air & Chorus. "Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave"
Track length1:31
V. Recitativo & Chorus of Virgins. "May Evr'y Hero Fal Like Thee"
Track length0:45
VI. Chorus of Virgins. "Bring the Laurels, Bring the Bays"
Track length2:40
VII. Recitative. "Come, Come! No Time for Lamentation Now"
Track length0:28
VIII. Air. "Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row"
Track length2:50
IX. Chorus of Israelites. "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"
Track length2:54

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October 2020

This live recording captures a panoply of moods and colours abetted by theatrical vitality and predominantly brisk pacing...the Millenium Orchestra’s broad textural palette is matched by the Namur Chamber Choir’s firmness of commitment and expressive flexibility.
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