Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
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· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Michael Slattery· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Franziska Gottwald· William Berger· Sophie Daneman· North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· North German Radio Chorus· William Berger· Michael Slattery· Franziska Gottwald· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Sophie Daneman
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Michael Slattery· Sophie Daneman· North German Radio Chorus· Thomas Cooley· William Berger
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· NDR Chor· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· 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· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman· Nicholas McGegan
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Sophie Daneman· Michael Slattery· North German Radio Chorus· William Berger· Franziska Gottwald· Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· North German Radio Chorus· Sophie Daneman· William Berger· Michael Slattery· Franziska Gottwald
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· North German Radio Chorus· Thomas Cooley· William Berger· 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
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· NDR Chor· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· North German Radio Chorus· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Sophie Daneman· Michael Slattery· William Berger
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
NDR Chor· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Nicholas McGegan· NDR Chor· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Nicholas McGegan· Michael Slattery· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· NDR Chor· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
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"
Producción
- Bernhard GüttlerProducción
- Bernhard GüttlerIngeniería de mezcla, Ingeniería de edición
- Sarah HölscherAsistente de ingeniería
- Christian FeldgenIngeniería
- Ryan BatesFotografía
- Marcus KrügerFotografía
- Michael SchilhanslFotografía
- Christoph WetzelIlustración de portada
- Sandra LousadaFotografía
- Jan GutzeitFotografía
- Randi BeachFotografía
- Stefan SchweigerFotografía
- Dorothea SchroederNotas de álbum
- Ed. W. HansenEdición del libreto
- Peter HurleyFotografía
- Dorothea HeiseFotografía
