Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
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!"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
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!"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, William Berger, Michael Slattery, North German Radio Chorus
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, Michael Slattery, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Sophie Daneman, Michael Slattery, William Berger
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, North German Radio Chorus, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Michael Slattery, William Berger, Sophie Daneman
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, 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"
NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
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