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Samson HWV 57

Libretto: Newburgh Hamilton
John Butt, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Fflur Wyn (Soprano), Hugo Hymas (Tenor), Jess Dandy (Alto), Joshua Ellicott (Tenor), Matthew Brook (Bass), Mary Bevan (Soprano), Sophie Bevan (Soprano), Vitali Rozynko (Bass)
2018, London, St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb
91 Tracks, 3:17:49

  • Symphony

    • 1. Andante
      03:29
    • 2. Allegro
      01:36
    • 3. Menuet
      02:30

  • Act I

    • 1. This Day, a Solemn Feast (Recitative)
      00:34
    • 2. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
      02:05
    • 3. Ye Men of Gaza (Air)
      04:06
    • 4. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
      00:30
    • 5. Loud As the Thunder’s Awful Voice (Air)
      02:53
    • 6. Then Free from Sorrow (Air)
      02:33
    • 7. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
      00:30
    • 8. Why by an Angel (Recitative)
      00:49
    • 9. Torments, Alas, Are Not Confin’d (Air)
      04:53
    • 10. Oh, Change Beyond Report (Recitative)
      00:49
    • 11. O Mirror of Our Fickle State! (Air)
      03:39
    • 12. Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself (Recitative)
      03:00
    • 13. Total Eclipse! (Air)
      04:04
    • 14. Since Light so Necessary Is to Life (Accompagnato)
      01:17
    • 15. O First Created Beam (Chorus)
      03:11
    • 16. Ye See, My Friends (Recitative)
      01:57
    • 17. Brethren and Men of Dan (Recitative)
      00:32
    • 18. Oh, Miserable Change! (Accompagnato)
      00:59
    • 19. Oh, Ever Failing Trust (Recitative)
      00:13
    • 20. God of Our Fathers (Air)
      02:29
    • 21. The Good We Wish for (Accompagnato)
      01:16
    • 22. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir’d My Tongue (Air)
      04:26
    • 23. Justly These Evils (Recitative)
      01:41
    • 24. My Griefs for This (Accompagnato)
      01:03
    • 25. Why Does the God of Israel Sleep? (Air)
      04:40
    • 26. There Lies Our Hope! (Recitative)
      00:23
    • 27. Then Shall They Know (Chorus)
      02:28
    • 28. For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recitative)
      01:42
    • 29. My Genial Spirits Droop (Accompagnato)
      01:29
    • 30. Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss (Arioso)
      02:09
    • 31. Joys That Are Pure (Air)
      03:01
    • 32. Then Round About the Starry Throne (Chorus)
      02:32

  • Act II

    • 1. Despair Not Thus! (Recitative)
      01:25
    • 2. Just Are the Ways of God to Man (Air)
      03:07
    • 3. My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recitative)
      00:31
    • 4. Return, O God of Hosts! (Air and Chorus)
      07:53
    • 5. But Who Is This (Recitative)
      03:24
    • 6. With Plaintive Notes (Air)
      07:14
    • 7. Alas! Th’Event Was Worse (Recitative)
      00:59
    • 8. Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way (Air)
      02:48
    • 9. Forgive What’s Done (Recitative)
      00:31
    • 10. My Faith and Truth (Duet)
      04:26
    • 11. Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)
      01:12
    • 12. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air)
      03:06
    • 13. Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)
      01:11
    • 14. Ne’er Think of That! (Recitative)
      00:28
    • 15. Traitor to Love (Duet)
      00:20
    • 16. She’s Gone! (Recitative)
      00:20
    • 17. It Is Not Virtue (Air)
      00:09
    • 18. Favour’d of Heav’n Is He (Recitative)
      00:21
    • 19. To Man God’s Universal Law (Chorus)
      02:34
    • 20. No Words of Peace (Recitative)
      01:55
    • 21. Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Air)
      05:44
    • 22. Put on Your Arms (Recitative)
      00:11
    • 23. My Strength Is from the Living God (Air)
      02:56
    • 24. With Thee, a Man Condemn’d (Recitative)
      00:52
    • 25. Go, Baffled Coward, Go (Duet)
      02:18
    • 26. Here Lie the Proof (Recitative)
      00:51
    • 27. Hear, Jacob’s God (Chorus)
      03:24
    • 28. Dagon, Arise (Recitative)
      00:16
    • 29. To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Air)
      04:06
    • 30. To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Chorus)
      02:04
    • 31. Fix’d in His Everlasting Seat (Chorus and Soli)
      03:04

  • Act III

    • 1. More Trouble Is Behind (Recitative)
      01:38
    • 2. Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath! (Air)
      03:23
    • 3. Reflect Then, Samson (Recitative)
      00:51
    • 4. With Thunder Arm’d, Great God, Arise! (Chorus)
      02:42
    • 5. Be of Good Courage (Recitative)
      02:19
    • 6. Then Shall I Make Jehovah’s Glory Known! (Accompagnato)
      00:31
    • 7. Thus When the Sun from’s Wat’ry Bed (Air)
      04:43
    • 8. With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men (Accompagnato)
      00:32
    • 9. The Holy One of Israel (Air and Chorus)
      02:22
    • 10. Old Manoa, with Youthful Steps (Recitative)
      00:29
    • 11. Great Dagon Has Subdu’d Our Foe (Air and Chorus)
      03:46
    • 12. What Noise of Joy Was That? (Recitative)
      00:50
    • 13. How Willing My Paternal Love (Air)
      03:44
    • 14. Your Hopes of His Deliv’ry (Recitative)
      00:17
    • 15. Presto
      00:19
    • 16. Heav’n! What Noise! (Recitative)
      00:06
    • 17. Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus)
      01:13
    • 18. Noise Call You This? (Recitative)
      00:49
    • 19. Where Shall I Run (Recitative)
      03:49
    • 20. Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament (Air and Chorus)
      03:43
    • 21. Proceed We Hence to Find His Body (Recitative)
      01:44
    • 22. Glorious Hero (Soli and Chorus)
      05:39
    • 23. Come, Come! (Recitative)
      01:05
    • 24. Let the Bright Seraphim (Air)
      02:58
    • 25. Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus)
      03:09