Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger
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!"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, 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, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, 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
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor
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"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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