Handel: Samson, HWV 57 – Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery & Thomas Cooley

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Symphony

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:31

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Menuet

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:03

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:35

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

1:57

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:07

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:27

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"

Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:27

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:35

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:43

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:52

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:14

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

1:21

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:59

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:25

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

0:56

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:35

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:50

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:15

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"

Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:04

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

1:08

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:35

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:14

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:56

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:47

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:22

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:50

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

1:59

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:34

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

0:59

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

8:41

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"

Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley & FestspielOrchester Göttingen

2:28

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman & George Frideric Handel

3:52

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:30

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:36

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:39

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"

Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

5:23

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Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court

Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

4:57

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

1:21

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"

Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

1:55

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:44

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:24

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:29

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich & FestspielOrchester Göttingen

1:44

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

5:14

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

0:30

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

2:18

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:50

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:19

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:14

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

1:57

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Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix’d in his everlasting seat

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan & Sophie Daneman

2:50

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich & FestspielOrchester Göttingen

1:22

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

1:55

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

0:47

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"

NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:46

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich & FestspielOrchester Göttingen

1:59

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

4:34

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:29

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"

Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

2:17

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:35

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"

Michael Slattery, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

3:39

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:53

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

3:47

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

1:53

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:39

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"

Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

2:37

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor & Nicholas McGegan

3:43

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

2:43

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"

Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:58

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan & Sophie Daneman

5:06

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"

FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & George Frideric Handel

0:33

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

6:10