Handel: Samson

Tracklist 128:27

Digital Media 1

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

Digital Media 2

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