GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Samson

1

Symphony

4:10

2

Chorus: Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!

2:17

3

Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring

3:41

4

Chorus: Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound

2:23

5

Air: Total eclipse!

4:32

6

Chorus: O first created beam

4:57

7

Accompagnato: The good we wish for, often prove our banes

4:52

8

Air: Why does the God of Israel

3:45

9

Accompagnato: My genial spirits droop, my hopes are flat

1:36

10

Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss

4:52

11

Chorus: Then round about the starry throne

4:39

12

Air: Return, oh God of hosts!

4:12

13

Chorus: To dust his glory they would tread

7:10

14

Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan

5:08

15

Air: Your charms to ruin led the way

4:11

16

Duet: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove

4:42

17

Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more

4:14

18

Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe

5:24

19

Recitative: Cam’st thou for this?

1:13

20

Duet: Go, baffled coward, go

3:11

21

Chorus: Hear Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear!

4:29

22

Chorus: Fix in his everlasting seat

2:52

23

Recitative: More trouble is behind

1:53

24

Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath

3:43

25

Chorus: With thunder arm’d great God, arise

5:07

26

Air: Thus when the sun from wat’ry bed

3:55

27

Accompagnato – Air – Chorus: With might endued above the sons of men

3:42

28

Air: How willing my paternal love – Symphony of horror and confusion

4:02

29

Chorus: Hear us, oh God, oh hear our cry

1:53

30

Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament

2:38

31

Chorus: Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain

1:43

32

A Dead March

3:44

33

Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave

5:01

34

Air: Let the bright seraphim in burning row

6:31

35

Chorus: Let their celestial concerts all unite

3:06

Jon Vickers Samson (tenor)

Joan Carlyle Dalila (soprano)

Lauris Elms Micah (contralto)

Joan Sutherland Israelite Woman (soprano)

David Kelly Harapha (bass)

Joseph Rouleau Manoa (tenor)

Raymond Leppard