‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Symphony

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

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, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

4:06

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

0:27

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:07

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:34

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

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:55

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

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

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

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

0:46

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, 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"

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:57

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

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

5:05

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor
Sophie Daneman

Soprano
Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Bass

Bernhard Güttler

Producer
Bernhard Güttler

Mixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
Sarah Hölscher

Assistant Engineer
Christian Feldgen

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

Sophie Daneman

Wolf Matthias Friedrich

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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