Handel: Samson

Tracklist

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Disc 1

• 1 Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha) 0:53
• 2 Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha) 2:26
• 3 Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson) 1:02
• 4 Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus) 3:48
• 5 Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha) 0:19
• 6 Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus) 3:08
• 7 ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha) 1:51
• 8 Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha) 2:34
• 9 Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson) 1:05
• 10 With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus) 3:05
• 11 Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson) 1:15
• 12 Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson) 4:34
• 13 Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus) 2:05
• 14 Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah) 0:58
• 15 Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah) 4:04
• 16 Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus) 2:10
• 17 Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus) 4:33
• 18 Symphony: dead march 3:41
• 19 Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus) 4:13
• 20 Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah) 0:42
• 21 Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus) 6:28
• 22 Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus) 3:01

Disc 2

• 1 SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony 4:09
• 2 ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus) 1:58
• 3 Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus) 4:21
• 4 Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson) 1:17
• 5 Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson) 5:08
• 6 Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus) 4:13
• 7 Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah) 1:07
• 8 Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah) 2:18
• 9 Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson) 1:37
• 10 Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson) 3:26
• 11 Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson) 2:15
• 12 Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah) 1:02
• 13 Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah) 3:50
• 14 Then round about the starry throne (Chorus) 3:28
• 15 ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah) 4:12
• 16 Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson) 1:47
• 17 Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman) 4:26
• 18 Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson) 0:55
• 19 Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson) 3:48
• 20 Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila) 0:32
• 21 Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman) 3:59
• 22 Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson) 0:31
• 23 Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson) 1:39
• 24 Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha) 2:25
• 25 Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha) 5:48

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