Handel: Samson

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen & The Symphony of Harmony and Invention

2002-10-01 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Overture
  7:47
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held
  0:32
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
  1:54
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Ye men of Gaza (Handel: Samson)
  3:52
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2)
  0:29
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice
  3:07
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall
  2:35
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3)
  0:28
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold
  0:52
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd
  3:57
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
  0:57
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: O mirror of our fickle state!
  2:44
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself
  2:36
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Total eclipse!
  3:29
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Since light so necessary is to life
  1:12
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Oh first created beam!
  3:34
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round
  1:60
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Brethren and men of Dan
  0:33
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man
  0:45
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!
  0:15
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: God of our fathers, what is man?
  3:01
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane
  1:04
• 23
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue
  4:36
• 24
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son
  1:36
• 25
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close
  0:54
• 26
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?
  4:35
• 27
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: There lies our hope!
  0:21
• 28
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Then shall they know
  2:19
• 29
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: For thee, my dearest son
  2:57
• 30
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss
  5:27
• 31
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Then round about the starry throne
  2:10
• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Despair not thus!
  1:26
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Just are the ways of God to man
  3:26
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: My evils hopeless are!
  0:46
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts!
  8:39
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay
  3:15
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan
  7:06
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw
  0:55
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Your charms to ruin led the way
  3:37
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure
  0:30
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove
  6:15
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court
  4:54
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Ne'er think of that!
  1:27
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Duet & Recit: Traitor to love!
  1:57
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit
  4:13
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he
  0:22
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: To man God's universal law
  2:31
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: No words of peace
  1:38
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe
  5:41
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Put on your arms
  0:11
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: My strength is from the living God
  2:53
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd
  0:42
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Duet: Go, baffled coward, go
  2:17
• 23
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Here lie the proof
  0:47
• 24
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear!
  3:15
• 25
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!
  0:14
• 26
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: To song and dance we give the day
  4:05
• 27
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: To song and dance we give the day
  1:58
• 28
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat
  3:03
• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: More trouble is behind
  1:24
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath
  3:01
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Reflect then, Samson
  0:50
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise (Handel: Samson)
  2:55
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Be of good courage
  2:24
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed
  3:54
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: With might endued
  0:26
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide/To fame immortal go
  2:23
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps
  0:26
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe
  4:29
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: What noise of joy was that
  0:48
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Air: How willing my paternal love
  3:36
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain
  1:57
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Noise call you this?
  0:41
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Where shall I run
  3:49
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel/Weep Israel
  3:21
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body
  0:47
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Dead March
  3:06
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Recit: The body comes
  1:11
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave
  5:12
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now
  1:02
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
  6:26