Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
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, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
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, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, 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"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Handel: 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!"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, NDR Chor
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
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"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, William Berger
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
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, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
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 GüttlerProducer
- Bernhard GüttlerMixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Sarah HölscherAssistant Engineer
- Christian FeldgenEngineer
- Ryan BatesPhotography
- Marcus KrügerPhotography
- Michael SchilhanslPhotography
- Christoph WetzelCover Art
- Sandra LousadaPhotography
- Jan GutzeitPhotography
- Randi BeachPhotography
- Stefan SchweigerPhotography
- Dorothea SchroederLiner Notes
- Ed. W. HansenBooklet Editor
- Peter HurleyPhotography
- Dorothea HeisePhotography