Handel: Samson
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Release date:
01.01.2015Plays count:
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Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)
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Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)
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Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)
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Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)
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Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
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Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)
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ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
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Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)
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Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)
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With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)
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Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)
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Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)
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Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
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Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)
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Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)
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Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)
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Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)
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Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)
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Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)
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Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
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Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)
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SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony
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ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)
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Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)
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Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)
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Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)
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Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)
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Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)
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Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)
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Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)
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Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)
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Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)
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Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)
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Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)
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Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)
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ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)
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Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)
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Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)
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Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
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Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
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Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)
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Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)
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Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)
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Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)
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Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
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Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)