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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor, countertenor), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Roberta Alexander (soprano), Alastair MiIes (bass), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conch), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Maria Venuti (soprano), Concentus...

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor, countertenor), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Roberta Alexander (soprano), Alastair MiIes (bass), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conch), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Maria Venuti (soprano), Concentus...

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  • Release date: 1st Jan 1993
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Catalogue number: 9029673572
  • Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Samson, HWV 57: Overture
Work length5:28
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1
Work length16:08
Menuet - Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held" (Samson)
Track length2:58
Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" (Philistines)
Track length2:06
Aria. "Ye Men of Gaza" (Philistine Woman)
Track length3:54
Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" - Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold" (Philistines, Samson)
Track length1:13
Aria. "Torments, Alas, Are Not Confined" - Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report" (Samson, Micah)
Track length5:57
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2
Work length13:41
Aria. "O mirror of our fickle state" - Recitative. "Whom have I to complain of" (Micah, Samson)
Track length4:01
Aria. "Total eclipse!" (Samson)
Track length3:27
Accompagnato. "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah)
Track length1:19
Chorus. "O first created beam!" - Recitative. "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" (Israelites, Samson, Micah, Manoah)
Track length4:54
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3
Work length10:59
Accompagnato. "Oh miserable change!" (Manoah)
Track length0:54
Accompagnato. "The good we wish for" (Manoah)
Track length1:09
Aria. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" - Recitative. "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (Manoah, Samson)
Track length4:17
Accompagnato. "My genial spirits droop" (Samson)
Track length1:19
Recitative. "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah)
Track length0:54
Chorus. "Then round about the starry throne" (Israelites)
Track length2:26
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 1
Work length10:15
Recitative. "Trust yet in God! Thy father's timely care" (Manoah, Samson, Micah)
Track length1:01
Aria. "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah)
Track length3:49
Chorus and Aria. "To dust his glory they would tread" (Israelites, Micah)
Track length5:25
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2
Work length22:33
Aria. "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" - Recitative. "Did love constrain thee?" (Dalila, Samson)
Track length6:20
Aria. "Your charms to ruin led the way" - Recitative. "Forgive what's done" (Samson, Dalila)
Track length3:49
Aria and Duet. "My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Philistine Woman)
Track length4:44
Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Virgins)
Track length1:11
Aria. "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Dalila)
Track length1:37
Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Virgins) [Reprise]
Track length1:18
Recitative. "N'er think of that!" (Samson, Dalila)
Track length1:16
Duet. "Traitor to love!" - Recitative. "She's gone! (Dalila, Samson, Micah)
Track length2:18
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 3: Chorus. "To man God's universal Law" - Recitative. "No words of peace" (Israelites, Micah, Harapha, Samson)
Work length4:19
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 4
Work length17:58
Aria. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" - Recitative. "Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster?" (Harapha, Samson)
Track length5:18
Duet. "Go, baffled coward, go" - Recitative. "Here lies the proof" (Samson, Harapha, Micah)
Track length3:05
Chorus. "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear" - Recitative. "Dagon, arise" (Israelites, Harapha)
Track length3:15
Aria. "To song and dance we give the day" (A Philistine)
Track length1:23
Chorus. "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistines)
Track length2:06
Chorus. "Fix'd in his everlasting seat" (Israelites and Philistines)
Track length2:51
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 1
Work length16:44
Recitative. "More trouble is behind" (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
Track length1:30
Aria. "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" - Recitative. "Reflect then" (Harapha, Micah, Samson)
Track length3:00
Chorus. "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise" - Recitative. "Be of good courage" (Israelites, Samson, Micah, Harapha)
Track length4:23
Accompagnato. "Then shall I make Jehovah's glory known!" (Samson)
Track length0:30
Aria. "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson)
Track length4:03
Accompagnato. "With might endued above the sons of men" (Micah)
Track length0:32
Aria. "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" (Micah)
Track length1:26
Chorus. "To fame immortal go" - Recitative. "Old Manoah, with youthful steps" (Israelites, Micah, Manoah)
Track length1:20
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 2
Work length13:56
Aria. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (A Philistine)
Track length1:55
Chorus. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" - Recitative. "What noise of joy was that?" (Philistines, Manoah, Micah)
Track length2:23
Aria. "How willing my paternal love" - Recitative. "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Manoah, Micah)
Track length2:49
A Symphony of Horror and Confusion - Recitative. "Heav'n! What noise!" (Manoah)
Track length0:23
Chorus. "Hear us, our God!" - Recitative. "Noise call you this?" (Philistines, Micah, Manoah, Messenger)
Track length3:08
Aria. "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" (Micah)
Track length2:07
Chorus. "Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain" (Israelites)
Track length1:11
Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 3
Work length15:28
Dead March - Recitative. "The body comes" (Micah, Manoah)
Track length3:42
Aria with Chorus. "Glorious hero" - Recitative. "Come, come! No time for lamentation now" (Manoah, Israelites, Israelite Woman)
Track length5:13
Aria. "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row" (Israelite Woman)
Track length3:13
Chorus. "Let their celestial concerts all unite" (Israelites)
Track length3:20
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