‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Nicholas McGegan

Symphony

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:30

Menuet

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

2:02

Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

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

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

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, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:58

Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

3:24

Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

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

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

1:07

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:34

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

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:55

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

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:49

Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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

1:58

Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

1:20

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

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

1:54

Air: "It is not virtue"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

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

0:23

Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:28

Recitative: "No words of peace"

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

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

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"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

0:46

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

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

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"

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:34

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

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

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?"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald

0:57

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

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

5:05

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Nicholas McGegan

Conductor
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor

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

Nicholas McGegan

NDR Chor

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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