‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:06

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

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:27

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

0:55

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

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

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, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

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, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald

0:13

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

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

0:46

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

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

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

1:58

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

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:33

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

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:57

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

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

5:05

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor
Sophie Daneman

Soprano
Nicholas McGegan

Conductor

Bernhard Güttler

Producer
Christian Feldgen

Engineer
Bernhard Güttler

Mixing Engineer, Editing Engineer
Sarah Hölscher

Assistant 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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

Sophie Daneman

Nicholas McGegan

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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