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Samson HWV 57

Libretto: Newburgh Hamilton
Raymond Leppard, Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Jon Vickers (Tenor), Joan Carlyle (Soprano), Joseph Rouleau (Bass), Lauris Elms (Alto), James Pease (Bass), Dame Joan Sutherland (Soprano)
1959, London
Live
35 Tracks, 2:15:48
    • Symphony
      04:10

  • Act I

    • 1. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
      02:18
    • 2. "Ye Men of Gaza, Hither Bring"
      03:42
    • 3. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound"
      02:23
    • 4. "Total Eclipse! No Sun, No Moon"
      04:32
    • 5. "O First Created Beam"
      04:58
    • 6. "The Good We Wish For, Often Prove Our Banes"
      04:52
    • 7. "Why Does the God of Israel"
      03:46
    • 8. "My Genial Spirits Droop, My Hopes Are Flat"
      01:37
    • 9. "Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss"
      04:52
    • 10. "Then Round About the Starry Throne"
      04:40

  • Act II

    • 1. "Return, Oh God of Hosts!"
      04:12
    • 2. "To Dust His Glory They Would Tread"
      07:10
    • 3. "With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan"
      05:09
    • 4. "Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way"
      04:11
    • 5. "My Faith and Truth, Oh Samson"
      04:42
    • 6. "Traitor to Love! I'll Sue No More"
      04:14
    • 7. "Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe"
      05:25
    • 8. Recitative
      00:54
    • 9. "Go, Baffled Coward, Go"
      03:31
    • 10. "Hear Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!"
      04:30
    • 11. "Fix in His Everlasting Seat"
      02:51

  • Act III

    • 1. "More Trouble Is Behind"
      01:53
    • 2. "Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath"
      03:44
    • 3. "With Thunder Arm'd Great God, Arise"
      05:08
    • 4. "Thus When the Sun from Wat'ry Bed"
      03:55
    • 5. "With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men"
      03:46
    • 6. "How Willing My Paternal Love"
      04:03
    • 7. "Hear Us, Oh God, Oh Hear Our Cry"
      01:54
    • 8. "Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament"
      02:38
    • 9. "Weep, Israel, Weep a Louder Strain"
      01:44
    • 10. "A Dead March (From Saul)"
      03:44
    • 11. "Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave"
      05:02
    • 12. "Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row"
      06:30
    • 13. "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"
      03:08