Handel: Samson, HWV 57

1. 1
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Symphony
   4:31
2. 2
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Menuet
   2:03
3. 3
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
   0:35
4. 4
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)
   1:57
5. 5
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"
   4:06
6. 6
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)
   0:26
7. 7
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
   3:27
8. 8
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"
   0:34
9. 9
   Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"
   4:42
10. 10
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"
    0:52
11. 11
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
    3:13
12. 12
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
    1:21
13. 13
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"
    3:59
14. 14
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"
    3:25
15. 15
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
    0:56
16. 16
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
    0:34
17. 17
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"
    0:49
18. 18
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
    0:14
19. 19
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"
    3:03
20. 20
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"
    1:08
21. 21
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"
    4:34
22. 22
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
    0:14
23. 23
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Accomp: "My griefs for this"
    0:55
24. 24
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
    4:47
25. 25
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
    0:21
26. 26
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"
    2:49
27. 27
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
    1:59
28. 28
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
    2:34
29. 29
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
    0:59
30. 30
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
    8:40
31. 31
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"
    2:27
32. 32
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"
    3:51
33. 33
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
    0:30
34. 34
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
    2:35
35. 35
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"
    0:39
36. 36
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"
    5:23
37. 37
    Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court
    4:57
38. 38
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
    1:21
39. 39
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
    1:55
40. 40
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"
    2:44
41. 41
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
    0:24
42. 42
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"
    2:28
43. 43
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"
    1:44
44. 44
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
    5:14
45. 45
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
    0:30
46. 46
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
    2:18
47. 47
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
    0:49
48. 48
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"
    3:18
49. 49
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
    0:13
50. 50
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
    1:57
51. 51
    Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix'd in his everlasting seat
    2:49
52. 52
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
    1:22
53. 53
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
    1:55
54. 54
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
    0:47
55. 55
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
    2:46
56. 56
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"
    1:59
57. 57
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
    4:33
58. 58
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
    0:28
59. 59
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
    2:16
60. 60
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"
    0:34
61. 61
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
    3:39
62. 62
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
    0:52
63. 63
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"
    3:46
64. 64
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
    1:53
65. 65
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
    0:39
66. 66
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"
    2:37
67. 67
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
    3:42
68. 68
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March
    2:42
69. 69
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"
    0:58
70. 70
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"
    5:06
71. 71
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"
    0:32
72. 72
    Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"
    6:10

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