Haendel : Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Haendel : Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Haendel : Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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 GüttlerProduction
- Bernhard GüttlerIngénierie de mixage, Ingénierie de montage
- Sarah HölscherAssistance d’ingénierie
- Christian FeldgenIngénierie
- Ryan BatesPhotographie
- Marcus KrügerPhotographie
- Michael SchilhanslPhotographie
- Christoph WetzelIllustration
- Sandra LousadaPhotographie
- Jan GutzeitPhotographie
- Randi BeachPhotographie
- Stefan SchweigerPhotographie
- Dorothea SchroederNotes d’accompagnement
- Ed. W. HansenRédaction de livrets
- Peter HurleyPhotographie
- Dorothea HeisePhotographie
