‎Handel: Samson by The Symphony of Harmony and Invention

Overture

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

7:46

Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

0:32

Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

1:54

Air: Ye men of Gaza (Handel: Samson)

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

3:51

Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2)

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:29

Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

3:06

Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall

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2:34

Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3)

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

0:27

Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

0:52

Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

3:56

Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:56

Air: O mirror of our fickle state!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:44

Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:36

Air: Total eclipse!

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3:28

Recit: Since light so necessary is to life

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1:12

Chorus: Oh first created beam!

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3:34

Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round

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1:59

Recit: Brethren and men of Dan

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0:33

Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:44

Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:15

Air: God of our fathers, what is man?

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

3:00

Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

1:03

Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

4:35

Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son

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1:35

Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close

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0:54

Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

4:34

Recit: There lies our hope!

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0:21

Chorus: Then shall they know

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2:19

Recit: For thee, my dearest son

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:56

Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss

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5:26

Chorus: Then round about the starry throne

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2:09

Recit: Despair not thus!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

1:25

Air: Just are the ways of God to man

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3:25

Recit: My evils hopeless are!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:46

Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts!

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8:38

Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

3:15

Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

7:06

Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:54

Air: Your charms to ruin led the way

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

3:36

Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure

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0:30

Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove

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6:14

Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court

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4:53

Recit: Ne'er think of that!

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1:26

Duet & Recit: Traitor to love!

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

1:56

Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit

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4:12

Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he

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0:22

Chorus: To man God's universal law

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:31

Recit: No words of peace

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

1:37

Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe

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5:40

Recit: Put on your arms

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:10

Air: My strength is from the living God

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2:53

Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd

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0:41

Duet: Go, baffled coward, go

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2:16

Recit: Here lie the proof

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0:46

Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear!

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3:14

Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!

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0:13

Air: To song and dance we give the day

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4:04

Chorus: To song and dance we give the day

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1:57

Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat

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3:03

Recitative: More trouble is behind

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1:23

Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath

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3:01

Recitative: Reflect then, Samson

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:50

Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise (Handel: Samson)

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:55

Recitative: Be of good courage

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:23

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

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3:54

Recitative: With might endued

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0:25

Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide/To fame immortal go

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2:22

Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps

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0:26

Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe

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4:28

Recitative: What noise of joy was that

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

0:47

Air: How willing my paternal love

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3:36

Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

1:57

Recit: Noise call you this?

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0:40

Recitative: Where shall I run

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3:49

Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel/Weep Israel

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3:20

Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body

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0:46

Dead March

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3:06

Recit: The body comes

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1:10

Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave

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5:12

Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now

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1:02

Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row

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6:25

George Frideric Handel

Composer
The Sixteen

Conductor, Orchestra, Choir
Harry Christophers

Conductor
The Symphony of Harmony and Invention

Artist

Mark Brown

Producer
Mike Clements

Engineer
Julian Millard

Mastering Engineer
Mike Hatch

Engineer
Harry Christophers

Liner Notes
Hisham F. Ibrahim

Cover Art
Anthony Hicks

Liner Notes

Handel: Samson

RECORD LABEL

On This Album

George Frideric Handel

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers

The Symphony of Harmony and Invention

Production