Handel: 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· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Nicholas McGegan· Michael Slattery· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· North German Radio Chorus· William Berger
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· William Berger· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· North German Radio Chorus· Michael Slattery
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· William Berger· Michael Slattery· Sophie Daneman· North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· NDR Chor· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Sophie Daneman· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman· 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"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· North German Radio Chorus· William Berger· Michael Slattery· Franziska Gottwald· Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· William Berger· North German Radio Chorus· Michael Slattery
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· William Berger· Franziska Gottwald· Sophie Daneman· Michael Slattery· North German Radio Chorus
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
NDR Chor· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Nicholas McGegan· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· William Berger· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Thomas Cooley· Michael Slattery· Sophie Daneman· North German Radio Chorus
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· 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"
Nicholas McGegan· NDR Chor· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Michael Slattery· Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
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"
Producción
- Bernhard GüttlerProducción
- Bernhard GüttlerIngeniería de mezcla, Ingeniería de edición
- Sarah HölscherAsistente de ingeniería
- Christian FeldgenIngeniería
- Ryan BatesFotografía
- Marcus KrügerFotografía
- Michael SchilhanslFotografía
- Christoph WetzelIlustración de portada
- Sandra LousadaFotografía
- Jan GutzeitFotografía
- Randi BeachFotografía
- Stefan SchweigerFotografía
- Dorothea SchroederNotas de álbum
- Ed. W. HansenEdición del libreto
- Peter HurleyFotografía
- Dorothea HeiseFotografía
