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Offer,Handel: Samson

Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George, Jonathan Best

The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers

  • Release Date: 1st Jun 2002
  • Catalogue No: COR16008
  • Label: Coro
  • Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

3 CDs

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Contents

Handel: Samson

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  • The Sixteen and Harry Christophers

Overture

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Recitative: This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held

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Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!

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Air: Ye men of Gaza

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Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (2)

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Air: Loud as the thunder's awful voice

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Air: Then free from sorrow, free from thrall

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Chorus: Awake the trumpet's lofty sound (3)

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Recit: Why by an angel was my birth foretold

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Air: Torments alas! are not confin'd: Handel

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Recit: O change beyond report, thought, or belief!

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Air: O mirror of our fickle state!

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Recit: Whom have I to complain of but myself

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Air: Total eclipse!

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Recit: Since light so necessary is to life

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Chorus: Oh first created beam!

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Recit: Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round

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Recit: Brethren and men of Dan

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Recit: Oh miserable change! Is this the man

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Recit: Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!

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Air: God of our fathers, what is man?

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Recit: The good we wish for, often proves our bane

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Air: Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue

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Recit: Justly these evils have befall'n thy son

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Recit: My griefs for this forbid mine eye to close

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Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep?

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Recit: There lies our hope!

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Chorus: Then shall they know

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Recit: For thee, my dearest son

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Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss

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Chorus: Then round about the starry throne

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Recit: Despair not thus!

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Air: Just are the ways of God to man

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Recit: My evils hopeless are!

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Air & Chorus: Return, O God of hosts!

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Recit: But who is this, that so bedeck'd and gay

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Air: With plaintive notes and am'rous moan

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Recit: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw

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Air: Your charms to ruin led the way

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Recit: Forgive what's done, nor think of what's past cure

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Duet & Chorus: My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove

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Air & Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court

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Recit: Ne'er think of that!

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Duet & Recit: Traitor to love!

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Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit

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Recit: Favour'd of Heaven is he

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Chorus: To man God's universal law

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Recit: No words of peace

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Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe

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Recit: Put on your arms

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Air: My strength is from the living God

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Recit: With thee! A man condemn'd

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Duet: Go, baffled coward, go

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Recit: Here lie the proof

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Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehova, hear!

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Recit: Dagon, arise! Attend thy sacred feast!

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Air: To song and dance we give the day

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Chorus: To song and dance we give the day

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Chorus & soloists: Fix'd in his everlasting seat

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Recitative: More trouble is behind

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Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath

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Recitative: Reflect then, Samson

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Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd great God, arise

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Recitative: Be of good courage

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Air: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed

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Recitative: With might endued

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Air & Chorus: The Holy One of Israel be thy guide / To fame immortal go

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Recitative: Old Manoa, with youthful steps

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Air & Chorus: Great Dagon has subdued our foe

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Recitative: What noise of joy was that

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Air: How willing my paternal love

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Recit, Sinfonia & Chorus: Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain

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Recit: Noise call you this?

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Recitative: Where shall I run

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Air & Chorus: Ye sons of Israel / Weep Israel

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Recitative: Proceed we hence to find his body

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Dead March

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Recit: The body comes

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Air & Chorus: Glorious hero, may thy grave

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Recitative: Come come! No time for lamentation now

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Air & Chorus: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row

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