‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Thomas Cooley

Symphony

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:30

Menuet

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, 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"

Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:55

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

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, 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"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

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, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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

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"

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

0:28

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

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, 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, Michael Slattery, NDR Chor

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

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"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:57

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

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

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, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor
Sophie Daneman

Soprano
Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Bass

Bernhard Güttler

Producer
Christian Feldgen

Engineer
Bernhard Güttler

Mixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
Sarah Hölscher

Assistant 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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

Sophie Daneman

Wolf Matthias Friedrich

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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