Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1: Symphony

Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1: Menuet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3: Dead March

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

Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3: Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"

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

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