‎Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by NDR Chor

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)

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan

1:56

Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Sophie Daneman, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

4:06

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

NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:27

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Michael Slattery, Nicholas McGegan

3:27

Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:34

Air: "Torments, alas!"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:42

Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:51

Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:13

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

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

1:20

Air: "Total eclipse!"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, 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, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan, Thomas Cooley

0:55

Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:49

Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

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

0:14

Air: "God of our fathers"

Nicholas McGegan, Michael Slattery, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:03

Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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"

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

0:13

Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan

0:55

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Thomas Cooley

4:46

Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

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

0:21

Chorus: "Then shall they know"

NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

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"

Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:33

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

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

0:58

Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

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

8:40

Recitative: "But who is this?"

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

2:27

Air: "With plaintive notes"

Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:51

Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:29

Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Thomas Cooley, Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:35

Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Duet: "My faith and truth"

Sophie Daneman, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

5:22

To fleeting pleasures make your court

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

4:56

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

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

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, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:43

Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Sophie Daneman, William Berger, Michael Slattery, 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"

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

1:43

Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich

5:13

Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

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

0:29

Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

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

2:17

Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:49

Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

3:18

Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

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

0:13

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

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, NDR Chor

1:56

Fix’d in his everlasting seat

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

2:49

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

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

1:22

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

Nicholas McGegan, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

1:54

Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

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

0:46

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, NDR Chor

2:45

Recitative: "Be of good courage"

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

1:58

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

Thomas Cooley, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

4:33

Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

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

0:28

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

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

2:16

Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:34

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

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

3:38

Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald

0:52

Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

3:46

Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

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

1:52

Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan

0:38

Recitative: "Where shall I run"

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

2:36

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

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

3:42

Dead March

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

2:42

Recitative: "The body comes"

Nicholas McGegan, Franziska Gottwald, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:57

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

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

5:05

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

Nicholas McGegan, Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

0:32

Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

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

6:09

George Frideric Handel

Composer
NDR Chor

Bass, Choir
Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Orchestra, Ensemble
Michael Slattery

Tenor
Wolf Matthias Friedrich

Bass

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

RECORD LABEL

George Frideric Handel

NDR Chor

Festspiel Orchester Göttingen

Michael Slattery

Wolf Matthias Friedrich

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

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