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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Symphony
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:31
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Menuet
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:03
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:35
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:57
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"
Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:06
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:27
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:27
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:34
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:42
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:52
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:14
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:21
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:59
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor & Nicholas McGegan
03:25
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:56
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:34
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:49
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:14
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"
Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:03
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:08
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:34
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:14
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Accomp: "My griefs for this"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:56
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:47
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:21
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:49
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:59
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:34
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:59
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
08:40
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"
Sophie Daneman, Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:27
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Nicholas McGegan & Sophie Daneman
03:51
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:30
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:35
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"
Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:39
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"
Sophie Daneman, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
05:23
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Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court
Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:57
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:21
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"
Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:55
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:44
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:24
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:28
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:44
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
05:14
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:30
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:18
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:49
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:18
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:13
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:57
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Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix’d in his everlasting seat
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan, Sophie Daneman, Thomas Cooley & Wolf Matthias Friedrich
02:49
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:22
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:55
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:47
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:46
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"
Franziska Gottwald, Thomas Cooley, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:59
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
04:33
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:28
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:16
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:34
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
Michael Slattery, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:39
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:52
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
03:46
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
01:53
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:39
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"
Franziska Gottwald, Michael Slattery, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:37
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, Franziska Gottwald, NDR Chor & Nicholas McGegan
03:42
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
02:42
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"
Franziska Gottwald, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:58
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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"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor, Nicholas McGegan & Sophie Daneman
05:06
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"
FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
00:32
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"
Sophie Daneman, NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan
06:10
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