‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Franziska Gottwald

Symphony

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:30

Menuet

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

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, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

0:27

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

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, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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"

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:55

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, 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!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, 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"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

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

1:58

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

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:33

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

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:57

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

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

5:05

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Sophie Daneman

Soprano
William Berger

Bass
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor

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

Sophie Daneman

William Berger

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

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