Handel: Samson

by George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Tracklist

Digital Media 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 march3:41
  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

Digital Media 2

  1. SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony4:09
  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