‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Franziska Gottwald

Symphony

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:30

Menuet

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:06

Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

0:27

Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"

Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

3:13

Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, William Berger

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:07

Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:34

Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:55

Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, North German Radio Chorus, Michael Slattery, William Berger

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman

1:20

Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger

0:13

Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

NDR Chor, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

1:22

Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:46

Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

1:58

Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:33

Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

0:28

Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:36

Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:57

Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:05

Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
William Berger

Bass
Nicholas McGegan

Conductor
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir
Michael Slattery

Tenor

Bernhard Güttler

Producer
Bernhard Güttler

Mixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
Sarah Hölscher

Assistant Engineer
Christian Feldgen

Engineer
Ryan Bates

Photography
Marcus Krüger

Photography
Michael Schilhansl

Photography
Christoph Wetzel

Cover Art
Sandra Lousada

Photography
Jan Gutzeit

Photography
Randi Beach

Photography
Stefan Schweiger

Photography
Dorothea Schroeder

Liner Notes
Ed. W. Hansen

Booklet Editor
Peter Hurley

Photography
Dorothea Heise

Photography

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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George Frideric Handel

William Berger

Nicholas McGegan

NDR Chor

Michael Slattery

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