Samson (Lodon Voices & English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Raymond Leppard)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Samson: Act I. Sinfonia
  8:41
• 2
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "This day, a solemn feast"
  0:37
• 3
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"
  2:14
• 4
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Ye men of Gaza"
  3:43
• 5
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"
  0:36
• 6
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
  3:05
• 7
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Then free from sorrow"
  2:49
• 8
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"
  0:34
• 9
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Why by an angel"
  1:10
• 10
  Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Torments, alas! are not confin'd"
  3:36
• 11
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh change beyond report"
  0:55
• 12
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh mirror of our fickle state"
  3:48
• 13
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Whom have I to complain of" / "Matchless in might!" / "Welcome, my friends" / "Which shall we first bewail" / "Oh loss of sight!"
  2:23
• 14
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Total eclipse"
  3:57
• 15
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Since light so necessary"
  1:25
• 16
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh first created beam"
  4:11
• 17
  Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Ye see, my friends" / "The wisest men have err'd" / "Oh that I had"
  1:39
• 18
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Brethren and men of Dan" / "Oh miserable change" / "Oh ever failing trust"
  1:52
• 19
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "God of our fathers"
  2:32
• 20
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "The good we wish for"
  1:15
• 21
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd"
  4:50
• 22
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Justly these evils have befall'n" / "Worse yet remains" / "This have I done"
  1:36
• 23
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "My griefs for this"
  1:11
• 24
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Why does the God of Israel sleep"
  5:17
• 25
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "There lies our hope"
  0:24
• 26
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then shall they know"
  2:28
• CD 2
• 1
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "For thee my dearest son" / "It should be so - to expiate my crime" / "Be for thy fate contrite" / "Why should I live"
  2:58
• 2
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then long eternity shall greet your bliss"
  2:06
• 3
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Joys that are pure"
  3:10
• 4
  Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then round about the starry throne"
  2:18
• 5
  Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Despair not thus" / "Where'er the liquid brook or fountain flow'd"
  1:21
• 6
  Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Just are the way of God to man" / "Trust yet in God"
  3:54
• 7
  Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "My evils hopeless are" / "Relieve thy champion"
  0:46
• 8
  Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Return, oh God of hosts"
  4:48
• 9
  Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "To dust his glory they would tread"
  3:33
• 10
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "But who is this" / "My wife? my traitress!" / "She stands, and eyes thee fix'd" / "With doubtful feet" / "Out thou hyæna!" / "I would not lessen my offense" / "How cunningly the sorceress displays"
  3:02
• 11
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "With plantive notes"
  7:39
• 12
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Did love constrain thee"
  0:49
• 13
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Your charms to ruin led the way"
  3:09
• 14
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Forgive what's done"
  0:34
• 15
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "My faith and truth" / "Her faith and truth"
  4:36
• 16
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"
  1:14
• 17
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "To fleeting pleasures make your court"
  1:50
• 18
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"
  1:13
• 19
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "How charming is domestic ease"
  1:48
• 20
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"
  1:14
• 21
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Ne'er think of that" / "Let me approach" / "Not for thy life" / "Thou art more deaf to pray'rs than winds or seas"
  1:33
• 22
  Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" / "Traitress to love! I'll hear no more" / Scene 3. "She's gone! a serpent manifest"
  2:06
• 23
  Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "It is not virtue"
  5:11
• 24
  Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "Favour'd of heaven is he"
  0:18
• 25
  Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "To man God's universal law"
  3:10
• 26
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "No words of peace" / "I come not, Samson" / "The way to know" / "Ha! dost thou then already single me" / "Boast not of what thou would'st of have done" / "The honour certain to have won from thee"
  1:56
• 27
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe"
  6:11
• CD 3
• 1
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Put on your arms" / "My strength is from the living God"
  3:08
• 2
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "With thee!" / "Cam'st thou for this"
  0:47
• 3
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Go, baffled coward, go" / "Presume not on thy God"
  2:37
• 4
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Here lies the proof"
  0:52
• 5
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Hear, Jacob's God"
  2:58
• 6
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Dagon, arise"
  0:18
• 7
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance we give the day"
  4:21
• 8
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance"
  2:18
• 9
  Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Fix'd in his everlasting seat"
  3:03
• 10
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "More trouble is behind" / "I fear him not" / "Samson, to thee our Lords" / "I am an Hebrew" / "This answer will offend" / "Myself!" / "My message, given with speed"
  1:15
• 11
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Presuming slave"
  2:43
• 12
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Reflect then, Samson" / "Shall I abuse"
  0:46
• 13
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With thunder arm'd"
  3:20
• 14
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Be of good courage"
  2:43
• 15
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
  4:23
• 16
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With might endued"
  0:41
• 17
  Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" / "To fame immortal go"
  2:44
• 18
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Old Manoa, with youthful steps" / "I come, my brethren"
  0:27
• 19
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" / "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
  3:51
• 20
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "What noise of joy was that"
  0:50
• 21
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "How willing my paternal love"
  3:35
• 22
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Your hopes of his deliv'ry" / "I know your friendly mind, and Heav'n! what noise!" / "Hear us, our God"
  1:48
• 23
  Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Noise call you this" / "Ruin indeeed" / "Thy son is rather slaying them" / Scene 3. "Where shall I run" / "The accident was loud" / "Let me recover breath" / "Suspense in news is torture" / "Unwounded of his enemies he fell"
  1:59
• 24
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" / "Weep, Israel, weep"
  3:48
• 25
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Proceed we hence"
  0:53
• 26
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Dead March"
  2:48
• 27
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "The body comes"
  1:00
• 28
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Glorious hero"
  5:13
• 29
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Come, come! no time for lamentation"
  1:04
• 30
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let the bright Seraphim"
  3:31
• 31
  Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let their celestal concerts all unite"
  3:35

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Release credits

• English Chamber Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Raymond Leppard
  conductor

Issues

• S
  Samson (London Voices & English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Raymond Leppard)

  3x CD
  1993