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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 - Symfony - Andante - Allegro - Allegro - Menuet
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Then free from sorrow"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state !"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Joys that are pure"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air and Chorus: "To dust his glory they would tread"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "With doubtful feet"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air, 1st verse:"To fleeting pleasures make your court"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air, 2nd verse: "How charming is domestic ease!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Double Chorus: "Fix'd in this everlasting seat"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Hear us, our God!"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Proceed we hence"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! no time for lamentation now"
Handel: Samson / Act 3, HWV 57 - Air: "Let The Bright Seraphim"
Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"
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