Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)
Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)
Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor
Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"
Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"
Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"
Production
- Bernhard GüttlerProducer
- Bernhard GüttlerMixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Sarah HölscherAssistant Engineer
- Christian FeldgenEngineer
- Ryan BatesPhotography
- Marcus KrügerPhotography
- Michael SchilhanslPhotography
- Christoph WetzelCover Art
- Sandra LousadaPhotography
- Jan GutzeitPhotography
- Randi BeachPhotography
- Stefan SchweigerPhotography
- Dorothea SchroederLiner Notes
- Ed. W. HansenBooklet Editor
- Peter HurleyPhotography
- Dorothea HeisePhotography