Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1
Handel: Samson, HWV 57
Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery
Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
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, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley
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, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
NDR Chor, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "But who is this?"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan
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!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "No words of peace"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, William Berger, North German Radio Chorus, Sophie Daneman
Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, North German Radio Chorus, William Berger, 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
NDR Chor, Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan
Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Thomas Cooley, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley
Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Nicholas McGegan
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"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald
Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen
Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Franziska Gottwald
Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan
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