Release by George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
=> 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)
=> 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)
=> Andromeda (Classical music label)
2015
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