Handel – Samson (rec. 1968) [3 CD’s] (Helen Donath, Sheila Armstrong, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, Munchener Bach-Chor, Munchener Bach-Orchester, Karl Richter) (1996) FLAC

CD1

1. Symfony – Andante – Allegro – Allegro – Menuet 9mn28
2. Recitative: This day, a solemn feast” 0mn39
3. Chorus: “Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!” 2mn04
4. Air: “Ye men of Gaza” 4mn11
5. Chorus: “Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!” 0mn32
6. Air: “Loud as the thunder’s awful voice” 3mn03
7. Air: “Then free from sorrow” 2mn42
8. Chorus: “Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!” 0mn33
9. Recitative: “Why by an angel” 0mn39
10. Air: “Torments, alas!” 5mn10
11. Recitative: “Oh change beyond report” 1mn07
12. Air: “Oh mirror of our fickle state!” 3mn56
13. Recitative: “Whom have I to complain of but myself” 1mn34
14. Air: “Total eclipse!” 4mn30
15. Chorus: “Oh first created beam!” 3mn14
16. Recitative: “Ye see, my friends” 1mn02
17. Recitative: “Brethren ond men of Dan” 0mn41
18. Recitative: “Oh miserable change!” 1mn04
19. Recitative: “Oh ever failing trust” 0mn23
20. Air: “God of our fathers” 3mn43
21. Recitative: “The good we wish for” 1mn12
22. Air: “Thy glorious deeds inspir’d my tongue” 4mn33
23. Recitative: “Justly these evils have befall’n thy son” 1mn23
24. Air: “Why does the God of Israel sleep?” 5mn00
25. Recitative: “There lies our hope!” 0mn25
26. Chorus: “Then shall they know” 2mn17
27. Recitative: “For thee, my dearest son” 1mn55
28. Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss” 1mn07
29. Air: “Joys that are pure” 5mn07
30. Chorus: “Then round about the starry throne” 2mn02

CD2

1. Recitative: “Trust yet in God!” 0mn23
2. Recitative: “My evils hopeless are!” 0mn55
3. Air: “Return, oh God of hosts!” 5mn50
4. Air and Chorus: “To dust his glory they would tread” 4mn20
5. Recitative: “But who is this?” 1mn14
6. Recitative: “With doubtful feet” 1mn45
7. Air: “With plaintive notes” 7mn12
8. Recitative: “Did Love constrain thee?” 0mn37
9. Air: “Your charms to ruin led the way” 3mn41
10. Recitative: “Forgive what’s done” 0mn41
11. Duet: “My faith and truth” 5mn39
12. Chorus: “Her faith and truth” 1mn23
13. Air, 1st verse:”To fleeting pleasures make your court” 2mn25
14. Chorus: “Her faith and truth” 1mn26
15. Air, 2nd verse: “How charming is domestic ease!” 2mn26
16. Chorus: “Her faith and truth” 1mn25
17. Recitative: “Ne’er think of that!” 1mn45
18. Duet: “Traitor to love!” 1mn46
19. Recitative: “She’s gone!” 0mn18
20. Air: “It is not virtue” 4mn48
21. Recitative: “Favour’d of heaven is he” 0mn31
22. Chorus: To man God’s universal law” 2mn25
23. Recitative: “No words of peace” 1mn53
24. Air: “Honour arms scorn such a foe” 5mn26
25. Recitative: “Cam’st thou for this” 0mn36
26. Duet: “Go, baffled coward, go” 2mn32
27. Recitative: “Here lies the proof” 1mn04
28. Chorus: “Hear, Jacob’s God” 3mn38
29. Recitative: “Dagon, arise!” 0mn15
30. Air: “To song and dance we give the day” 3mn29
31. Chorus: “To song and dance we give the day” 1mn57
32. Double Chorus: “Fix’d in this everlasting seat” 3mn12

CD3

1. Recitative: “More trouble is behind” 1mn33
2. Air: “Presuming slave, to move their wrath!” 2mn40
3. Recitative: “Reflect then, Samson” 0mn49
4. Chorus: “With thunder arm’d, great God, arise!” 3mn06
5. Recitative: “Be of good courage” 2mn59
6. Air: “Thus when the sun from’s wat’ry bed” 4mn00
7. Air: “With might endued above the sons of men” 0mn29
8. Air: “The Holy One of Israel” – Chorus: “To fame im- mortal go” 2mn15
9. Recitative: “Old Manoa” 0mn32
10. Air and Chorus: “Great Dagon has subdued our foe” 3mn51
11. Recitative: “What noise of joy was that?” 1mn00
12. Air: “How willing my paternal love” 3mn24
13. Recitative: “Your hopes of his deliv’ry” 0mn50
14. Chorus: “Hear us, our God!” 1mn26
15. Recitative: “Noise call you this?” 0mn47
16. Recitative: “Where shall I run” 2mn54
17. Air: Ye sons of Irael, now lament” – Chorus: “Weep, Israel, weep” 4mn29
18. Recitative: “Proceed we hence” 0mn59
19. Dead March 2mn54
20. Recitative: “The body comes” 1mn06
21. Solo and Chorus: “Glorious hero” – Accompagnato: “The virgins too shall” – Chorus: ” 6mn20
22. Recitative: “Come, come! no time for lamentation now” 0mn24
23. Air: “Let the bright Seraphim” 3mn14
24. Chorus: “Let their celestial concerts all unite” 2mn55