‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Symphony

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:30

Menuet

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

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

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:06

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

0:27

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

Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

3:13

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

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, 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"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

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"

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:55

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, 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"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

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

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

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"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

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

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

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, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley

0:46

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

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, 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"

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, 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"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, 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"

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

5:05

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor
Sophie Daneman

Soprano
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

Sophie Daneman

NDR Chor

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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