No. |
Title |
Length |
1. |
Overture: Handel: Samson |
7:46 |
2. |
Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held: Handel: Samson |
0:32 |
3. |
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!: Handel: Samson |
1:54 |
4. |
Air: Ye men of Gaza: Handel: Samson |
3:51 |
5. |
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2): Handel: Samson |
0:29 |
6. |
Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice: Handel: Samson |
3:07 |
7. |
Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall: Handel: Samson |
2:34 |
8. |
Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3): Handel: Samson |
0:28 |
9. |
Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold: Handel: Samson |
0:52 |
10. |
Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd: Handel: Samson |
3:56 |
11. |
Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief!: Handel: Samson |
0:56 |
12. |
Air: O mirror of our fickle state!: Handel: Samson |
2:44 |
13. |
Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself: Handel: Samson |
2:36 |
14. |
Air: Total eclipse!: Handel: Samson |
3:29 |
15. |
Recit: Since light so necessary is to life: Handel: Samson |
1:12 |
16. |
Chorus: Oh first created beam!: Handel: Samson |
3:34 |
17. |
Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round: Handel: Samson |
1:59 |
18. |
Recit: Brethren and men of Dan: Handel: Samson |
0:33 |
19. |
Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man: Handel: Samson |
0:44 |
20. |
Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!: Handel: Samson |
0:15 |
21. |
Air: God of our fathers, what is man?: Handel: Samson |
3:00 |
22. |
Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane: Handel: Samson |
1:04 |
23. |
Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue: Handel: Samson |
4:35 |
24. |
Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son: Handel: Samson |
1:35 |
25. |
Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close: Handel: Samson |
0:54 |
26. |
Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?: Handel: Samson |
4:34 |
27. |
Recit: There lies our hope!: Handel: Samson |
0:21 |
28. |
Chorus: Then shall they know: Handel: Samson |
2:19 |
29. |
Recit: For thee, my dearest son: Handel: Samson |
2:56 |
30. |
Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss: Handel: Samson |
5:26 |
31. |
Chorus: Then round about the starry throne: Handel: Samson |
2:09 |
32. |
Recit: Despair not thus!: Handel: Samson |
1:25 |
33. |
Air: Just are the ways of God to man: Handel: Samson |
3:26 |
34. |
Recit: My evils hopeless are!: Handel: Samson |
0:46 |
35. |
Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts!: Handel: Samson |
8:39 |
36. |
Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay: Handel: Samson |
3:15 |
37. |
Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan: Handel: Samson |
7:06 |
38. |
Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw: Handel: Samson |
0:54 |
39. |
Air: Your charms to ruin led the way: Handel: Samson |
3:36 |
40. |
Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure: Handel: Samson |
0:30 |
41. |
Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove: Handel: Samson |
6:14 |
42. |
Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court: Handel: Samson |
4:53 |
43. |
Recit: Ne'er think of that!: Handel: Samson |
1:27 |
44. |
Duet & Recit: Traitor to love!: Handel: Samson |
1:57 |
45. |
Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit: Handel: Samson |
4:12 |
46. |
Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he: Handel: Samson |
0:22 |
47. |
Chorus: To man God's universal law: Handel: Samson |
2:31 |
48. |
Recit: No words of peace: Handel: Samson |
1:38 |
49. |
Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe: Handel: Samson |
5:40 |
50. |
Recit: Put on your arms: Handel: Samson |
0:10 |
51. |
Air: My strength is from the living God: Handel: Samson |
2:53 |
52. |
Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd: Handel: Samson |
0:41 |
53. |
Duet: Go, baffled coward, go: Handel: Samson |
2:16 |
54. |
Recit: Here lie the proof: Handel: Samson |
0:46 |
55. |
Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear!: Handel: Samson |
3:14 |
56. |
Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!: Handel: Samson |
0:13 |
57. |
Air: To song and dance we give the day: Handel: Samson |
4:04 |
58. |
Chorus: To song and dance we give the day: Handel: Samson |
1:57 |
59. |
Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat: Handel: Samson |
3:03 |
60. |
Recitative: More trouble is behind: Handel: Samson |
1:23 |
61. |
Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath: Handel: Samson |
3:01 |
62. |
Recitative: Reflect then, Samson: Handel: Samson |
0:50 |
63. |
Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise: Handel: Samson |
2:55 |
64. |
Recitative: Be of good courage: Handel: Samson |
2:23 |
65. |
Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed: Handel: Samson |
3:54 |
66. |
Recitative: With might endued: Handel: Samson |
0:25 |
67. |
Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide/To fame immortal go: Handel: Samson |
2:22 |
68. |
Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps: Handel: Samson |
0:26 |
69. |
Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe: Handel: Samson |
4:28 |
70. |
Recitative: What noise of joy was that: Handel: Samson |
0:47 |
71. |
Air: How willing my paternal love: Handel: Samson |
3:36 |
72. |
Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain: Handel: Samson |
1:57 |
73. |
Recit: Noise call you this?: Handel: Samson |
0:40 |
74. |
Recitative: Where shall I run: Handel: Samson |
3:49 |
75. |
Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel/Weep Israel: Handel: Samson |
3:20 |
76. |
Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body: Handel: Samson |
0:46 |
77. |
Dead March: Handel: Samson |
3:06 |
78. |
Recit: The body comes: Handel: Samson |
1:10 |
79. |
Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave: Handel: Samson |
5:12 |
80. |
Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now: Handel: Samson |
1:02 |
81. |
Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row: Handel: Samson |
6:25 |