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George Frideric Handel

Samson, HWV 57

Karl Richter (conductor) · Alexander Young (tenor) · Thomas Stewart (bass) · Ezio Flagello (bass) · Martina Arroyo (soprano) · Helen Donath (soprano) · Sheila Armstrong (soprano) · Münchener Bach-Orchester (orchestra) · Münchener Bach-Chor (choir) · Norma Procter · Jerry Jennings

Baroque86 Mvts. · 3 h 27 min

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Movements

  1. Samson, HWV 57: Symfony - Andante - Allegro - Allegro - MenuetPreview unavailable
  2. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"Preview unavailable
  3. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"Preview unavailable
  4. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Ye men of Gaza"Preview unavailable
  5. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"Preview unavailable
  6. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"Preview unavailable
  7. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Then free from sorrow"Preview unavailable
  8. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"Preview unavailable
  9. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Why by an angel"Preview unavailable
  10. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Torments, alas!"Preview unavailable
  11. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"Preview unavailable
  12. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state !"Preview unavailable
  13. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"Preview unavailable
  14. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Total eclipse!"Preview unavailable
  15. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"Preview unavailable
  16. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"Preview unavailable
  17. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"Preview unavailable
  18. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"Preview unavailable
  19. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"Preview unavailable
  20. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "God of our fathers"Preview unavailable
  21. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "The good we wish for"Preview unavailable
  22. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"Preview unavailable
  23. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"Preview unavailable
  24. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"Preview unavailable
  25. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "There lies our hope!"Preview unavailable
  26. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Then shall they know"Preview unavailable
  27. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"Preview unavailable
  28. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss"Preview unavailable
  29. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Air: "Joys that are pure"Preview unavailable
  30. Samson HWV 57 / Act 1: Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"Preview unavailable
  31. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"Preview unavailable
  32. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!"Preview unavailable
  33. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"Preview unavailable
  34. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air and Chorus: "To dust his glory they would tread"Preview unavailable
  35. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "But who is this?"Preview unavailable
  36. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "With doubtful feet"Preview unavailable
  37. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "With plaintive notes"Preview unavailable
  38. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"Preview unavailable
  39. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"Preview unavailable
  40. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Forgive what's done"Preview unavailable
  41. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Duet: "My faith and truth"Preview unavailable
  42. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "Her faith and truth"Preview unavailable
  43. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air, 1st verse:"To fleeting pleasures make your court"Preview unavailable
  44. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "Her faith and truth"Preview unavailable
  45. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air, 2nd verse: "How charming is domestic ease!"Preview unavailable
  46. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "Her faith and truth"Preview unavailable
  47. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"Preview unavailable
  48. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Duet: "Traitor to love!"Preview unavailable
  49. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "She's gone!"Preview unavailable
  50. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "It is not virtue"Preview unavailable
  51. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"Preview unavailable
  52. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "To man God's universal law"Preview unavailable
  53. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "No words of peace"Preview unavailable
  54. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"Preview unavailable
  55. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"Preview unavailable
  56. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"Preview unavailable
  57. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Here lies the proof"Preview unavailable
  58. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"Preview unavailable
  59. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"Preview unavailable
  60. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Air: "To song and dance we give the day"Preview unavailable
  61. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"Preview unavailable
  62. Samson HWV 57 / Act 2: Double Chorus: "Fix'd in this everlasting seat"Preview unavailable
  63. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "More trouble is behind"Preview unavailable
  64. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"Preview unavailable
  65. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"Preview unavailable
  66. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"Preview unavailable
  67. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Be of good courage"Preview unavailable
  68. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"Preview unavailable
  69. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"Preview unavailable
  70. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"Preview unavailable
  71. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Old Manoa"Preview unavailable
  72. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"Preview unavailable
  73. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"Preview unavailable
  74. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: "How willing my paternal love"Preview unavailable
  75. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"Preview unavailable
  76. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Chorus: "Hear us, our God!"Preview unavailable
  77. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Noise call you this?"Preview unavailable
  78. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Where shall I run"Preview unavailable
  79. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Air: Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"Preview unavailable
  80. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Proceed we hence"Preview unavailable
  81. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Dead MarchPreview unavailable
  82. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "The body comes"Preview unavailable
  83. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"Preview unavailable
  84. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Recitative: "Come, come! no time for lamentation now"Preview unavailable
  85. Samson / Act 3, HWV 57: Air: "Let The Bright Seraphim"Preview unavailable
  86. Samson HWV 57 / Act 3: Chorus: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"Preview unavailable

Performers

Credits

Album
Handel: Samson
Label
Archiv Produktion
Recording year
1996

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