‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by William Berger

Symphony

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:30

Menuet

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

4:06

Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

0:27

Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"

Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

3:13

Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

1:07

Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:34

Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:55

Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, William Berger

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

1:20

Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"

Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald

0:13

Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

1:22

Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"

Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:46

Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

1:58

Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

4:33

Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

0:28

Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:36

Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:57

Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Sophie Daneman

5:05

Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
William Berger

Bass
Nicholas McGegan

Conductor
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir
Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Bass

Bernhard Güttler

Producer
Christian Feldgen

Engineer
Bernhard Güttler

Mixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
Sarah Hölscher

Assistant Engineer
Ryan Bates

Photography
Marcus Krüger

Photography
Michael Schilhansl

Photography
Christoph Wetzel

Cover Art
Sandra Lousada

Photography
Jan Gutzeit

Photography
Randi Beach

Photography
Stefan Schweiger

Photography
Dorothea Schroeder

Liner Notes
Ed. W. Hansen

Booklet Editor
Peter Hurley

Photography
Dorothea Heise

Photography

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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George Frideric Handel

William Berger

Nicholas McGegan

NDR Chor

Wolf Matthias Friedrich

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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