Samson HWV 57
Dunedin Consort, Joshua Ellicott (Tenor), Jess Dandy (Alto), Matthew Brook (Bass), Vitali Rozynko (Bass), Sophie Bevan (Soprano), Hugo Hymas (Tenor), Mary Bevan (Soprano), Fflur Wyn (Soprano), John Butt (Harpsichord)
2018, London, Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb
Act I
- 00:34This Day, a Solemn Feast (Recitative)
- 02:05Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
- 04:06Ye Men of Gaza (Air)
- 00:30Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
- 02:53Loud As the Thunder’s Awful Voice (Air)
- 02:33Then Free from Sorrow (Air)
- 00:30Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)
- 00:49Why by an Angel (Recitative)
- 04:53Torments, Alas, Are Not Confin’d (Air)
- 00:49Oh, Change Beyond Report (Recitative)
- 03:39O Mirror of Our Fickle State! (Air)
- 03:01Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself (Recitative)
- 04:04Total Eclipse! (Air)
- 01:17Since Light so Necessary Is to Life (Accompagnato)
- 02:58O First Created Beam (Chorus)
- 01:57Ye See, My Friends (Recitative)
- 00:32Brethren and Men of Dan (Recitative)
- 00:59Oh, Miserable Change! (Accompagnato)
- 00:13Oh, Ever Failing Trust (Recitative)
- 02:29God of Our Fathers (Air)
- 01:16The Good We Wish for (Accompagnato)
- 04:26Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir’d My Tongue (Air)
- 01:41Justly These Evils (Recitative)
- 01:02My Griefs for This (Accompagnato)
- 04:39Why Does the God of Israel Sleep? (Air)
- 00:23There Lies Our Hope! (Recitative)
- 02:34Then Shall They Know (Chorus)
- 01:43For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recitative)
- 01:29My Genial Spirits Droop (Accompagnato)
- 02:09Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss (Arioso)
- 03:01Joys That Are Pure (Air)
- 02:29Then Round About the Starry Throne (Chorus)
Act II
- 01:25Despair Not Thus! (Recitative)
- 03:07Just Are the Ways of God to Man (Air)
- 00:31My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recitative)
- 07:46Return, O God of Hosts! (Air and Chorus)
- 03:24But Who Is This (Recitative)
- 07:14With Plaintive Notes (Air)
- 00:59Alas! Th’Event Was Worse (Recitative)
- 02:48Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way (Air)
- 00:31Forgive What’s Done (Recitative)
- 04:26My Faith and Truth (Duet)
- 01:11Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)
- 03:06To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air)
- 01:14Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)
- 01:35Ne’er Think of That! (Recitative)
- 01:39Traitor to Love (Duet)
- 00:20She’s Gone! (Recitative)
- 04:00It Is Not Virtue (Air)
- 00:21Favour’d of Heav’n Is He (Recitative)
- 02:33To Man God’s Universal Law (Chorus)
- 01:55No Words of Peace (Recitative)
- 05:44Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Air)
- 00:11Put on Your Arms (Recitative)
- 02:56My Strength Is from the Living God (Air)
- 00:52With Thee, a Man Condemn’d (Recitative)
- 02:18Go, Baffled Coward, Go (Duet)
- 00:52Here Lie the Proof (Recitative)
- 03:17Hear, Jacob’s God (Chorus)
- 00:16Dagon, Arise (Recitative)
- 04:06To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Air)
- 02:03To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Chorus)
- 03:11Fix’d in His Everlasting Seat (Chorus and Soli)
Act III
- 01:38More Trouble Is Behind (Recitative)
- 03:23Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath! (Air)
- 00:51Reflect Then, Samson (Recitative)
- 02:40With Thunder Arm’d, Great God, Arise! (Chorus)
- 02:19Be of Good Courage (Recitative)
- 00:31Then Shall I Make Jehovah’s Glory Known! (Accompagnato)
- 04:43Thus When the Sun from’s Wat’ry Bed (Air)
- 00:32With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men (Accompagnato)
- 02:21The Holy One of Israel (Air and Chorus)
- 00:29Old Manoa, with Youthful Steps (Recitative)
- 03:45Great Dagon Has Subdu’d Our Foe (Air and Chorus)
- 00:50What Noise of Joy Was That? (Recitative)
- 03:44How Willing My Paternal Love (Air)
- 00:17Your Hopes of His Deliv’ry (Recitative)
- 00:19Presto
- 00:06Heav’n! What Noise! (Recitative)
- 01:12Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus)
- 00:49Noise Call You This? (Recitative)
- 03:49Where Shall I Run (Recitative)
- 03:42Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament (Air and Chorus)
- 01:44Proceed We Hence to Find His Body (Recitative)
- 05:43Glorious Hero (Soli and Chorus)
- 01:05Come, Come! (Recitative)
- 02:58Let the Bright Seraphim (Air)
- 03:06Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus)
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