Handel: Samson - George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Handel: Samson

Album by George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Released 2015

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Digital Media 1
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Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Jon Vickers & James Pease
0:53
2
Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Jon Vickers & James Pease
2:26
3
Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
1:02
4
Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:48
5
Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & James Pease
0:19
6
Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:08
7
ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Lauris Margaret Elms, Jon Vickers & James Pease
1:51
8
Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & James Pease
2:34
9
Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Lauris Margaret Elms & Jon Vickers
1:05
10
With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:05
11
Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
1:15
12
Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
4:34
13
Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joan Sutherland
2:05
14
Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joseph Rouleau & Lauris Margaret Elms
0:58
15
Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joseph Rouleau
4:04
16
Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Lauris Margaret Elms & Joseph Rouleau
2:10
17
Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Lauris Margaret Elms
4:33
18
Symphony: dead march
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:41
19
Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joseph Rouleau
4:13
20
Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joseph Rouleau
0:42
21
Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joan Sutherland
6:28
22
Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:01
Digital Media 2
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SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
4:09
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ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
1:58
3
Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joan Sutherland
4:21
4
Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
1:17
5
Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
5:08
6
Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
4:13
7
Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joseph Rouleau & Lauris Margaret Elms
1:07
8
Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joseph Rouleau
2:18
9
Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
1:37
10
Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
3:26
11
Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joseph Rouleau & Jon Vickers
2:15
12
Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Lauris Margaret Elms
1:02
13
Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Lauris Margaret Elms
3:50
14
Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Raymond Leppard
3:28
15
ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Lauris Margaret Elms
4:12
16
Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Lauris Margaret Elms & Jon Vickers
1:47
17
Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joan Sutherland
4:26
18
Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
0:55
19
Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Jon Vickers
3:48
20
Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & Joan Carlyle
0:32
21
Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joan Carlyle & Joan Sutherland
3:59
22
Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joan Carlyle & Jon Vickers
0:31
23
Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Joan Carlyle & Jon Vickers
1:39
24
Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard, Lauris Margaret Elms, Jon Vickers & James Pease
2:25
25
Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Raymond Leppard & James Pease
5:48