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Handel: Samson

Thomas Cooley (Samson) & Sophie Daneman (Dalila)

NDR Choir & Festival Orchestra Göttingen, Nicolas McGegan

…Thomas Cooley makes a tragic Samson, from his first soliloquy on his mental anguish, through a heart-rending 'Total eclipse' to his humility and returning strength in Act III. Sophie Daneman... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 20th Apr 2009
  • Catalogue No: CAR83425
  • Label: Carus
  • Series: Music from Dresden
  • Length: 2 hours 46 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1

Work length59:55
$30.80
$42.00
  • Thomas Cooley (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Michael Slattery (tenor), Franziska Gottwald (alto)
  • FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Symphony

Track length4:30
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Menuet

Track length2:02
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Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"

Track length0:34
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Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"

Track length1:56
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Air: "Ye men of Gaza"

Track length4:06
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Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"

Track length0:27
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Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"

Track length3:27
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Recitative: "Why by an angel"

Track length0:34
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Air: "Torments, alas!"

Track length4:42
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Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"

Track length0:51
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Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!"

Track length3:13
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Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"

Track length1:20
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Air: "Total eclipse!"

Track length3:58
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Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"

Track length3:24
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Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"

Track length0:55
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Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"

Track length0:34
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Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"

Track length0:49
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Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"

Track length0:14
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Air: "God of our fathers"

Track length3:03
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Recitative: "The good we wish for"

Track length1:07
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Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"

Track length4:34
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Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"

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Accomp: "My griefs for this"

Track length0:55
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Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"

Track length4:46
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Recitative: "There lies our hope!"

Track length0:21
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Chorus: "Then shall they know"

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Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"

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Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"

Track length2:33
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2

Work length25:00
$8.80
$12.00
  • Sophie Daneman (soprano), Franziska Gottwald (alto), Thomas Cooley (tenor)
  • NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"

Track length0:58
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Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"

Track length8:40
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Recitative: "But who is this?"

Track length2:27
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Air: "With plaintive notes"

Track length3:51
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Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"

Track length0:29
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Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"

Track length2:35
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Recitative: "Forgive what's done"

Track length0:38
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Duet: "My faith and truth"

Track length5:22
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Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court

Work length4:56
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  • Sophie Daneman (soprano)
  • NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2

Work length24:46
$14.30
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  • Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass (vocal)), NDR Chor (bass (vocal)), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Franziska Gottwald (alto), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass)
  • NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"

Track length1:20
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Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!"

Track length1:54
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Air: "It is not virtue"

Track length2:43
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Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"

Track length0:23
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Chorus: "To man God's universal law"

Track length2:28
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Recitative: "No words of peace"

Track length1:43
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Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"

Track length5:13
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Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"

Track length0:29
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Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"

Track length2:17
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Recitative: "Here lies the proof"

Track length0:49
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Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"

Track length3:18
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Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"

Track length0:13
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Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"

Track length1:56
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Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix’d in his everlasting seat

Work length2:49
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  • Sophie Daneman (soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass)
  • FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3

Work length49:05
$23.10
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  • Michael Slattery (tenor), Franziska Gottwald (alto), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass (vocal)), Sophie Daneman (soprano)
  • NDR Chor, FestspielOrchester Göttingen
  • Nicholas McGegan
  • Recorded: 2009-02-01

Recitative: "More trouble is behind"

Track length1:22
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Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"

Track length1:54
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Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"

Track length0:46
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Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"

Track length2:45
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Recitative: "Be of good courage"

Track length1:58
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Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"

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Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"

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Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"

Track length2:16
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Recitative: "Old Manoa"

Track length0:34
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Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"

Track length3:38
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Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"

Track length0:52
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Air: "How willing my paternal love"

Track length3:46
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Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"

Track length1:52
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Recitative: "Noise call you this?"

Track length0:38
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Recitative: "Where shall I run"

Track length2:36
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Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"

Track length3:42
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Dead March

Track length2:42
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Recitative: "The body comes"

Track length0:57
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Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"

Track length5:05
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Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now"

Track length0:32
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Air: "Let the bright Seraphim"

Track length6:09
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