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Handel: Samson (English Oratorio HWV 57, performed according to the traditions of the time)

©℗ 2000 K&K Verlagsanstalt
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    Overture
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    Act I • 1. This Day A Solemn Feast To Dagon Held (Recit. Samson) - Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound! (Chorus of Philistines)
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    Act I • 2. Ye Men Of Gaza (Air Philistine Woman) - Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound! (Chorus Of Philistines)
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    Act I • 3. Why By An Angel Was My Birth Foretold (Recit. Samson & Micah) - Total Eclipse! No Sun, No Moon! (Air Samson)
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    Act I • 4. Of First Created Beam (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act I • 5. Brethren And Men Of Dan, Say (Recit. Manoah & Micah)
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    Act I • 6. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue (Air Manoah)
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    Act I • 7. Justly These Evils (Recit. Samson) - Why Does The God Of Israel Sleep? (Air Samson)
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    Act I • 8. Then Shall They Know (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act I • 9. For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recit. Manoah & Samson) - My Genial Spirits Droop (Accomp. Samson)
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    Act I • 10. Then Long Eternity - Joys That Are Pure, Sincerely Good (Recit. & Air Micah)
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    Act I • 11. Then Round About The Starry Throne (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act II • 1. Just Are The Ways Of God To Man (Air Manoah) - My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recit. Samson & Micah)
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    Act II • 2. Return, O God Of Hosts! (Air Micah) - To Dust His Glory They Would Tread (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act II • 3. But Who Is This, That So Bedeck'd And Gay (Recit. Micah, Samson, Dalila)
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    Act II • 4. With Plaintive Notes And Am'rous Moan (Air Dalila)
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    Act II • 5. My/Her Faith And Truth, O Samson, Prove (Air Dalila & Chorus Of Virgins)
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    Act II • 6. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air Dalila)
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    Act II • 7. Ne'er Think Of That (Samson) - Traitor To Love! (Duet Dalila & Samson)
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    Act II • 8. To Man God's Universal Law (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act II • 9. No Words Of Peace (Recit. Micah, Harapha, Samson)
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    Act II • 10. Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe (Air Harapha)
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    Act II • 11. Go, Baffled Coward (Duet Samson, Harapha)
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    Act II • 12. Here Lies The Proof (Micah) - Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah! (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act II • 13. Dagon, Arise! (Harapha) - To Song And Dance We Give The Day (Chorus Of Philistines)
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    Act II • 14. Fix'd In His Everlasting Seat (Choruses Of Israelites & Philistines)
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    Act III • 1. More Trouble Is Behind (Recit. Micah, Samson, Harapha)
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    Act III • 2. Presuming Slave! (Air Harapha)
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    Act III • 3. Reflect Then, Samson (Recit. Micah, Samson)
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    Act III • 4. With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise! (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act III • 5. Be Of Good Courage (Recit. Samson, Micah, Harapha)
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    Act III • 6. Thus When The Sun From's Wat'ry Bed (Air Samson)
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    Act III • 7. With Might Endu'd - The Holy One Of Israel (Air) - To Fame Immortal Go (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act III • 8. Old Manoah, With Youthful Steps (Recit. Micah, Manoah)
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    Act III • 9. Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe (Chorus Of Philistines) - What Noise Of Joy (Recit. Manoah, Micah)
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    Act III • 10. How Willing My Paternal Love (Air Manoah)
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    Act III • 11. Your Hopes (Micah, Manoah) - A Symphony Of Horror And Confusion - Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus Of Philistines)
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    Act III • 12. Where Shall I Run (Recit. Messenger, Micah, Manoah)
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    Act III • 13. Ye Sons Of Israel, Now Lament (Air Micah) - Weep, Israel, A Louder Strain (Chorus Of Israelites)
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    Act III • 14. Dead March - The Body Comes (Micah, Manoah)
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    Act III • 15. Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave (Air Manoah & Chorus Of Israelites & Soli)
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    Act III • 16. Let The Bright Seraphim In Burning Row (Air Israelite Woman)
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    Act III • 17. Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus Of Israelites)