Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel
Performer: Jon Vickers, Joseph Rouleau, Lauris Elms, Joan Carlyles, James Pease
Orchestra: Covent Garden Orchestra
Conductor: Raymond Leppard
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Andromeda
Catalogue: ANDRCD9070
Release: 2011
Size: 272 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Samson, HWV 57
01. Overture
Act I
02. Scene 1: Chorus: Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!
03. Scene 1: Air: Ye men of Gaza (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
04. Scene 1: Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)
05. Scene 1: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)
06. Scene 2: Chorus: O first created beam! (Israelites)
07. Scene 3: Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan (Manoah, Micah)
08. Scene 3: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)
09. Scene 3: Recitative: Justly these evils have befalI’n thy son (Samson)
10. Scene 3: Why does the God of lsrael sleep? (Samson)
11. Scene 3: Recitative: For thee, my dearest son (Manoah, Samson)
12. Scene 3: Recitative: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)
13. Scene 3: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)
14. Scene 3: Chorus: Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)
Act II
15. Scene 1: Did love constrain: Return, O God of hosts (Micah)
16. Scene 1: Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)
17. Scene 1: Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Chorus)
18. Scene 1: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
19. Scene 1: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
20. Scene 1: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)
21. Scene 2: Air: My faith and truth (Dalila, Israelite Woman)
22. Scene 2: Let me approach, at least, and touch thy hand (Dalila, Samson)
23. Scene 2: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)
24. Scene 3: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
25. Scene 4: Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)
CD 02
Act II
01. Scene 4: Cam’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
02. Scene 4: Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
03. Scene 4: Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)
04. Scene 4: Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)
05. Scene 4: Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
06. Scene 4: Chorus: Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)
Act III
07. Scene 1: Recitative: More trouble is behind (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
08. Scene 1: Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
09. Scene 1: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)
10. Scene 1: Chorus: With thunder arm’d, great God, arise! (Chorus)
11. Scene 1: Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)
12. Scene 1: Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’ry bed (Samson)
13. Scene 2: Chorus: Great Dagon has subdu’d our foe (Chorus)
14. Scene 2: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)
15. Scene 2: Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)
16. Scene 2: Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)
17. Scene 3: Air: Ye sons of lsrael (Micah, Chorus)
18. Scene 3: Symphony: Dad March
19. Scene 3: Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)
20. Scene 3: Come, come! No time for lamentation now (Manoah)
21. Scene 3: Air: Let the bright seraphim in burning row (Israelite Woman)
22. Scene 3: Chorus: Let their celestial concerts all unite (Israelites)
