Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

Thomas Cooley, FestspielOrchester Göttingen & Nicholas McGegan

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

4 MINUTES AND 33 SECONDS

Album tracklist

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Symphony

04:31

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Menuet

02:03

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

00:35

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (I)

01:57

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

04:06

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (II)

00:27

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"

03:27

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"

00:34

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"

04:42

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

00:52

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

03:14

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"

01:21

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"

03:59

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

03:25

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

00:56

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

00:34

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

00:49

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

00:14

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"

03:03

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"

01:08

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"

04:34

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"

00:14

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Accomp: "My griefs for this"

00:56

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"

04:47

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

00:21

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"

02:49

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

01:59

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

02:34

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

00:59

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

08:40

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"

02:27

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"

03:51

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

00:30

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

02:35

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

00:39

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"

05:23

Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court

04:57

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

01:21

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"

01:55

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"

02:44

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

00:24

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

02:28

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"

01:44

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

05:14

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

00:30

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

02:18

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

00:49

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

03:18

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

00:13

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"

01:57

Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix’d in his everlasting seat

02:49

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

01:22

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"

01:55

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

00:47

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"

02:46

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"

01:59

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

04:33

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

00:28

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"

02:16

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"

00:34

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"

03:39

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

00:52

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"

03:46

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

01:53

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

00:39

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"

02:37

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"

03:42

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March

02:42

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"

00:58

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"

05:06

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"

00:32

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

06:10

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"