Samson

Album by George Frideric Handel & Chœur de Chambre de Namur & Millenium Orchestra & Leonardo García Alarcón

Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, premiered in 1743. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra in the Baroque idiom, it combines dramatic recitatives, expressive arias and prominent choruses and represents Handel's late-career engagement with English oratorio following his earlier Italian opera work.
First released: 14th August 2020

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Overture
  2. 2.
    Ne'er Think Of That!
  3. 3.
    Traitor To Love! Traitress To Love!
  4. 4.
    This Day, A Solemn Feast To Dagon Held
  5. 5.
    She's Gone!
  6. 6.
    Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
  7. 7.
    Ye Men Of Gaza, Hither Bring
  8. 8.
    To Man God's Universal Law
  9. 9.
    Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
  10. 10.
    No Words Of Peace
  11. 11.
    Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe
  12. 12.
    Why By An Angel Was My Birth Foretold
  13. 13.
    O Change Beyond Report
  14. 14.
    Cam'st Thou For This, Vain Boaster?
  15. 15.
    Go, Baffled Coward, Go - Presume No On Thy God
  16. 16.
    Whom Have I To Complain Of But Myself
  17. 17.
    Total Eclipse!
  18. 18.
    Here Lie The Proof
  19. 19.
    Since Light So Necessary Is To Life
  20. 20.
    Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!
  21. 21.
    Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!
  22. 22.
    Oh First Created Beam!
  23. 23.
    To Song And Dance We Give The Day
  24. 24.
    Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclose Me Round
  25. 25.
    To Song And Dance We Give The Day
  26. 26.
    Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue
  27. 27.
    Fix'd In His Everlasting Seat
  28. 28.
    To Sorrow Now I Tune
  29. 29.
    Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son
  30. 30.
    More Trouble Is Behind
  31. 31.
    My Genial Spirits Droop, My Hopes Are Fled
  32. 32.
    Presuming Slave. To Move Their Wrath!
  33. 33.
    Then Round About The Starry Throne
  34. 34.
    Reflect Then, Samson, Matters Now Are
  35. 35.
    With Thunder Arm'd Great God, Arise!
  36. 36.
    Trust Yet In God! - Return O God Of Hosts! Behold
  37. 37.
    But Who Is This, That So Bedeck'd And Gay
  38. 38.
    Be Of Good Courage, I Begin To Feel
  39. 39.
    Thus When The Sun From's Wat'ry Bed
  40. 40.
    With Doubtful Feet
  41. 41.
    With Might Endu'd Above The Sons Of Men
  42. 42.
    With Plaintive Notes And Am'rous Moan
  43. 43.
    Did Love Constrain Thee?
  44. 44.
    The Holy One Of Israel Be Thy Guide
  45. 45.
    Your Charms To Ruin Led The Way
  46. 46.
    Old Manoa, With Youthful Steps
  47. 47.
    Forgive What's Done, Not Think Of What's Past Cure
  48. 48.
    Great Dagon Has Subdued Our Foe
  49. 49.
    What Noise Of Joy Was That?
  50. 50.
    My Faith And Truth, Oh Samson
  51. 51.
    To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court
  52. 52.
    How Willing My Paternal Love
  53. 53.
    Her Faith And Truth, O Samson!
  54. 54.
    Your Hopes Of His Deliv'ry Seem Not Vain
  55. 55.
    Noise Call You This?
  56. 56.
    Ye Sons Of Israel, Now Lament
  57. 57.
    Dead March
  58. 58.
    The Body Comes
  59. 59.
    Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave
  60. 60.
    May Ev'ry Hero Fal Like Thee
  61. 61.
    Bring The Laurels, Bring The Bays
  62. 62.
    Come, come! No time for lamentation now
  63. 63.
    Let the bright seraphim in burning row
  64. 64.
    Let their celestial concerts all unite