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"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, 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"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, North German Radio Chorus, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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!"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, North German Radio Chorus, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Haendel : Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
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, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
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"
Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, 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
