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Samson (London Voices & English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Raymond Leppard) George Frideric Handel

Release: 1993 Germany, Language: [Multiple languages], Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 84, Length: 3:32:34, Barcode: 022924599422
Release type: Album

Contents

CD #1
1 Samson: Act I. Sinfonia 8:41
2 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "This day, a solemn feast" 0:37
3 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" 2:14
4 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Ye men of Gaza" 3:43
5 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" 0:36
6 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" 3:05
7 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Then free from sorrow" 2:49
8 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" 0:34
9 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Why by an angel" 1:10
10 Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Torments, alas! are not confin'd" 3:36
11 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh change beyond report" 0:55
12 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh mirror of our fickle state" 3:48
13 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Whom have I to complain of" / "Matchless in might!" / "Welcome, my friends" / "Which shall we first bewail" / "Oh loss of sight!" 2:23
14 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Total eclipse" 3:57
15 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Since light so necessary" 1:25
16 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh first created beam" 4:11
17 Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Ye see, my friends" / "The wisest men have err'd" / "Oh that I had" 1:39
18 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Brethren and men of Dan" / "Oh miserable change" / "Oh ever failing trust" 1:52
19 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "God of our fathers" 2:32
20 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "The good we wish for" 1:15
21 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd" 4:50
22 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Justly these evils have befall'n" / "Worse yet remains" / "This have I done" 1:36
23 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "My griefs for this" 1:11
24 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Why does the God of Israel sleep" 5:17
25 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "There lies our hope" 0:24
26 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then shall they know" 2:28
CD #2
1 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "For thee my dearest son" / "It should be so - to expiate my crime" / "Be for thy fate contrite" / "Why should I live" 2:58
2 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then long eternity shall greet your bliss" 2:06
3 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Joys that are pure" 3:10
4 Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then round about the starry throne" 2:18
5 Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Despair not thus" / "Where'er the liquid brook or fountain flow'd" 1:21
6 Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Just are the way of God to man" / "Trust yet in God" 3:54
7 Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "My evils hopeless are" / "Relieve thy champion" 0:46
8 Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Return, oh God of hosts" 4:48
9 Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "To dust his glory they would tread" 3:33
10 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "But who is this" / "My wife? my traitress!" / "She stands, and eyes thee fix'd" / "With doubtful feet" / "Out thou hyæna!" / "I would not lessen my offense" / "How cunningly the sorceress displays" 3:02
11 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "With plantive notes" 7:39
12 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Did love constrain thee" 0:49
13 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Your charms to ruin led the way" 3:09
14 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Forgive what's done" 0:34
15 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "My faith and truth" / "Her faith and truth" 4:36
16 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth" 1:14
17 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "To fleeting pleasures make your court" 1:50
18 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth" 1:13
19 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "How charming is domestic ease" 1:48
20 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth" 1:14
21 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Ne'er think of that" / "Let me approach" / "Not for thy life" / "Thou art more deaf to pray'rs than winds or seas" 1:33
22 Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" / "Traitress to love! I'll hear no more" / Scene 3. "She's gone! a serpent manifest" 2:06
23 Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "It is not virtue" 5:11
24 Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "Favour'd of heaven is he" 0:18
25 Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "To man God's universal law" 3:10
26 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "No words of peace" / "I come not, Samson" / "The way to know" / "Ha! dost thou then already single me" / "Boast not of what thou would'st of have done" / "The honour certain to have won from thee" 1:56
27 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" 6:11
CD #3
1 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Put on your arms" / "My strength is from the living God" 3:08
2 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "With thee!" / "Cam'st thou for this" 0:47
3 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Go, baffled coward, go" / "Presume not on thy God" 2:37
4 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Here lies the proof" 0:52
5 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Hear, Jacob's God" 2:58
6 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Dagon, arise" 0:18
7 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance we give the day" 4:21
8 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance" 2:18
9 Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Fix'd in his everlasting seat" 3:03
10 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "More trouble is behind" / "I fear him not" / "Samson, to thee our Lords" / "I am an Hebrew" / "This answer will offend" / "Myself!" / "My message, given with speed" 1:15
11 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Presuming slave" 2:43
12 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Reflect then, Samson" / "Shall I abuse" 0:46
13 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With thunder arm'd" 3:20
14 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Be of good courage" 2:43
15 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" 4:23
16 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With might endued" 0:41
17 Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" / "To fame immortal go" 2:44
18 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Old Manoa, with youthful steps" / "I come, my brethren" 0:27
19 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" / "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" 3:51
20 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "What noise of joy was that" 0:50
21 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "How willing my paternal love" 3:35
22 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Your hopes of his deliv'ry" / "I know your friendly mind, and Heav'n! what noise!" / "Hear us, our God" 1:48
23 Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Noise call you this" / "Ruin indeeed" / "Thy son is rather slaying them" / Scene 3. "Where shall I run" / "The accident was loud" / "Let me recover breath" / "Suspense in news is torture" / "Unwounded of his enemies he fell" 1:59
24 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" / "Weep, Israel, weep" 3:48
25 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Proceed we hence" 0:53
26 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Dead March" 2:48
27 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "The body comes" 1:00
28 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Glorious hero" 5:13
29 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Come, come! no time for lamentation" 1:04
30 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let the bright Seraphim" 3:31
31 Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let their celestal concerts all unite" 3:35

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