Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
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"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, William Berger, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Sophie Daneman
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, 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
- Christian FeldgenEngineer
- Bernhard GüttlerMixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
- Sarah HölscherAssistant Engineer
- 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