No. |
Title |
Length |
1. |
Samson, HWV 57: Overture (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
7:46 |
2. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:32 |
3. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:54 |
4. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Ye men of Gaza (Handel: Samson) (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:51 |
5. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2) (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:29 |
6. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:06 |
7. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:34 |
8. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3) (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:27 |
9. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:52 |
10. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:56 |
11. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:56 |
12. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: O mirror of our fickle state! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:44 |
13. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:36 |
14. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Total eclipse! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:28 |
15. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Since light so necessary is to life (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:12 |
16. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Oh first created beam! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:34 |
17. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:59 |
18. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Brethren and men of Dan (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:33 |
19. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:44 |
20. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:15 |
21. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: God of our fathers, what is man? (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:00 |
22. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:03 |
23. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:35 |
24. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:35 |
25. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:54 |
26. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:34 |
27. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: There lies our hope! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:21 |
28. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Then shall they know (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:19 |
29. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: For thee, my dearest son (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:56 |
30. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
5:26 |
31. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Then round about the starry throne (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:09 |
32. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Despair not thus! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:25 |
33. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Just are the ways of God to man (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:25 |
34. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: My evils hopeless are! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:46 |
35. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
8:38 |
36. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:15 |
37. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
7:06 |
38. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:54 |
39. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:36 |
40. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:30 |
41. |
Samson, HWV 57: Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
6:14 |
42. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:53 |
43. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Ne'er think of that! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:26 |
44. |
Samson, HWV 57: Duet & Recit: Traitor to love! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:56 |
45. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:12 |
46. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:22 |
47. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: To man God's universal law (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:31 |
48. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: No words of peace (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:37 |
49. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
5:40 |
50. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Put on your arms (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:10 |
51. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: My strength is from the living God (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:53 |
52. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:41 |
53. |
Samson, HWV 57: Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:16 |
54. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Here lie the proof (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:46 |
55. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:14 |
56. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast! (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:13 |
57. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: To song and dance we give the day (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:04 |
58. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus: To song and dance we give the day (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:57 |
59. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:03 |
60. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: More trouble is behind (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:23 |
61. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:01 |
62. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Reflect then, Samson (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:50 |
63. |
Samson, HWV 57: Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise (Handel: Samson) (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:55 |
64. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Be of good courage (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:23 |
65. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:54 |
66. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: With might endued (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:25 |
67. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide/To fame immortal go (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
2:22 |
68. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:26 |
69. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
4:28 |
70. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: What noise of joy was that (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:47 |
71. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air: How willing my paternal love (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:36 |
72. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:57 |
73. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: Noise call you this? (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:40 |
74. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Where shall I run (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:49 |
75. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel/Weep Israel (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:20 |
76. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
0:46 |
77. |
Samson, HWV 57: Dead March (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
3:06 |
78. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recit: The body comes (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:10 |
79. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
5:12 |
80. |
Samson, HWV 57: Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
1:02 |
81. |
Samson, HWV 57: Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row (featuring The Sixteen Harry Christophers) |
6:25 |