Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, William Berger
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, 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"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, 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!"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, William Berger
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, 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
NDR Chor, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
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"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald
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"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, 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