Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
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"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, Michael Slattery
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Michael Slattery
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
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!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Michael Slattery
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, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
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, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, 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"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor
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