Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· 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"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Michael Slattery· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· North German Radio Chorus· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· William Berger· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· North German Radio Chorus· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· William Berger· Michael Slattery· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· William Berger· North German Radio Chorus· Sophie Daneman· Thomas Cooley· Michael Slattery
Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· NDR Chor· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus
To fleeting pleasures make your court
Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Sophie Daneman· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley
Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Michael Slattery· North German Radio Chorus· Franziska Gottwald· Sophie Daneman· William Berger
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· North German Radio Chorus· Michael Slattery· Sophie Daneman· Franziska Gottwald· William Berger
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Thomas Cooley· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Michael Slattery· William Berger· North German Radio Chorus· Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Sophie Daneman
Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus
Fix’d in his everlasting seat
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· NDR Chor· Sophie Daneman· Thomas Cooley
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Franziska Gottwald· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley
Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Nicholas McGegan· Thomas Cooley· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Sophie Daneman· Thomas Cooley· Wolf Matthias Friedrich· North German Radio Chorus· Michael Slattery· William Berger
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
NDR Chor· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Franziska Gottwald
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· NDR Chor· Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Michael Slattery· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen· Nicholas McGegan· Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
NDR Chor· Franziska Gottwald· Nicholas McGegan· Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
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"
Producción
- Bernhard GüttlerProducción
- Bernhard GüttlerIngeniería de mezcla, Ingeniería de edición
- Sarah HölscherAsistente de ingeniería
- Christian FeldgenIngeniería
- Ryan BatesFotografía
- Marcus KrügerFotografía
- Michael SchilhanslFotografía
- Christoph WetzelIlustración de portada
- Sandra LousadaFotografía
- Jan GutzeitFotografía
- Randi BeachFotografía
- Stefan SchweigerFotografía
- Dorothea SchroederNotas de álbum
- Ed. W. HansenEdición del libreto
- Peter HurleyFotografía
- Dorothea HeiseFotografía
