‎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"

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"

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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"

Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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!"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

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, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus

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"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:34

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

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:55

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

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

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

0:46

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

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

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

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"

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

5:05

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir
Nicholas McGegan

Conductor
Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Bass
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble

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

NDR Chor

Nicholas McGegan

Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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