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Samson, HWV57

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) DEU/ENG [Composer]

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Album: Georg Friedrich Händel: Händel-Highlights: Overtures and Arias from Operas and Oratorios

Perf: Charles Farncombe, Deutsche Händel-Solisten

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Musicology:

Samson, HWV57

Year: 1741

Genre: Oratorio

Pr. Instruments: Voice & Chorus/Choir
- Act 1
  - 1.Sinfonia (Overture)
    1a.Andante. Adagio
    
    1b.Allegro
    
    1c.Menuetto
  - 2.Sc.1, Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held
  - 3a.Sc.1, Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
  - 4.Sc.1, Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring
  - 3b.Sc.1, Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
  - 5.Sc.1, Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice
  - 6.Sc.1, Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall
  - 3c.Sc.1, Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
  - 7.Sc.1, Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold
  - 8.Sc.1, Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd
  - 9.Sc.2, Recitative: O charge beyond report, thought, or belief!
  - 10.Sc. 2,Air: O mirror of our fickle state!
  - 11.Sc.2, Recitative: Whom have I to complain of but myself
  - 12.Sc.2, Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon
  - 13.Sc.2, Recitative: Since light so necessary is to life
  - 14.Sc.2, Chorus: Oh first created beam! And thou great word!
  - 15.Sc.2, Recitative: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round
  - 16.Sc.3, Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son
  - 17.Sc.3, Recitative: Oh miserable change! Is this the man
  - 18.Sc.3, Recitative: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!
  - 19.Sc.3, Air: God of our fathers, what is man?
  - 20.Sc.3, Recitative: The good we wish for, often proves our bane
  - 21.Sc.3, Air: Thy glorious deed inspir'd my tongue
  - 22.Sc.3, Recitative: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son
  - 23.Sc.3, Recitative: My griefs for this
  - 24.Sc.3, Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?
  - 25.Sc.3, Recitative: There lies our hope!
  - 26.Sc.3, Chorus: Then shall they know
  - 27.Sc.3, Recitative: For thee, my dearest son; No.28. Recitative: My genial spirits droop
  - 28.Sc.3, Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss
  - 29.Sc.3, Chorus: Then round about the starry throne
- Act 2
  - 1.Sc.1, Recitative: Despair not thus!
  - 2.Sc.1, Air: Just are the ways of God to man
  - 3.Sc.1, Recitative: My evils hopeless are!
  - 4.Sc.1, Air: Return, oh God of hosts!
  - 5.Sc.1, Air: Return, oh God of hosts! 6.Sc.1, Chorus: To dust his glory they would tread
  - 7.Sc.1, Recitative: But who is this?
  - 8.Sc.1, Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan
  - 9.Sc.1, Recitative: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw
  - 10.Sc.1, Air: Your charms to ruin led the way
  - 11.Sc.1, Recitative: Forgive what's done
  - 12.Sc.1, Duet: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove; 13.Sc.2, Chorus: Her faith and
  - 14.Sc.2, Air: To fleeting pleasures make your court
  - 15.Sc.2, Air: To fleeting pleasures make your court; 16.Sc.2, Chorus: Her faith and truth
  - 17.Sc.2, Recitative: Ne'er think of that!
  - 18Sc.2, Duet: Traitor to love! I'll sue no more; 19.Sc.2, Recitative: She's gone!
  - 20.Sc.2, Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit
  - 21.Sc.2, Recitative: Favour'd of Heaven is he
  - 22.Sc.2, Chorus: To man God's universal law
  - 23.Sc.2, Recitative: No words of peace
  - 24.Sc.2, Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe
  - 25.Sc.2, Recitative: Put on your arms
  - 26.Sc.2, Air: My strength is from the living God
  - 27.Sc.2, Recitative: With thee, a man condemn'd
  - 28.Sc.2, Duet: Go, baffled coward, go
  - 29.Sc.2, Recitative: Here lie the proof
  - 30.Sc.2, Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah hear!
  - 31.Sc.2, Recitative: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!
  - 32.Sc.2, Air: To song and dance we give the day
  - 33.Sc.2, Chorus: To song and dance we give the day
  - 34.Sc.2, Chorus: Fix'd in his everlasting seat
- Act 3
  - 1.Sc.1, Recitative: More trouble is behind
  - 2.Sc.1, Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath!
  - 3.Sc.1, Recitative: Reflect then, Samson,
  - 4.Sc.1, Chorus: With thunder arm'd great God, arise!
  - 5.Sc.1, Recitative: Be of good courage; I begin to feel
  - 6.Sc.1, Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed
  - 7.Sc.1, Recitative: With might endu'd
  - 8.Sc.1, Air: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide; 9.Sc.2, Chorus: To fame immortal go
  - 10.Sc.2, Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps,
  - 11.Sc.2, Air: Great Dagon has subdu'd our foe; 12.Sc.2, Chorus: Great Dagon has subd
  - 13.Sc.2, Recitative: What noise of joy was that?
  - 14.Sc.2, Air: How willing my paternal love
  - 15.Sc.12, Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv'ry; 15a.Sc.2: Sinfonia
  - 16.Sc.2, Recitative: Noise call you this?
  - 17.Sc.3, Recitative: Where shall I run?
  - 18.Sc.3, Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament; 19.Sc.3, Chorus: Weep Israel
  - 20.Sc.3, Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body
  - 21.Sc.3, Sinfonia: Dead March
  - 22.Sc.3, Recitative and Air: The body comes;
  - 23.Sc.3, Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave
  - 24.Sc.3, Recitative: Come, come! No time for lamentation now
  - 25.Sc.3, Air: Let the bright Seraphim
  - 26.Sc.3, Chorus: Let their celestial concerts all unite

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