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Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor, counter-tenor), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Jochen Kowalski (counter-tenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Roberta Alexander (soprano), Alastair MiIes (bass), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conch), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Maria Venuti (soprano)

Concentus...

  • Release Date: 1st Jan 1993
  • Catalogue No: 9029673572
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Samson, HWV 57: Overture

Work length5:28
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  • Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1

Work length16:08
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  • Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Menuet - Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held" (Samson)

Track length2:58
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Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" (Philistines)

Track length2:06
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Aria. "Ye Men of Gaza" (Philistine Woman)

Track length3:54
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Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" - Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold" (Philistines, Samson)

Track length1:13
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Aria. "Torments, Alas, Are Not Confined" - Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report" (Samson, Micah)

Track length5:57
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2

Work length13:41
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  • Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Aria. "O mirror of our fickle state" - Recitative. "Whom have I to complain of" (Micah, Samson)

Track length4:01
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Aria. "Total eclipse!" (Samson)

Track length3:27
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Accompagnato. "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah)

Track length1:19
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Chorus. "O first created beam!" - Recitative. "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" (Israelites, Samson, Micah, Manoah)

Track length4:54
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3

Work length10:59
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  • Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Accompagnato. "Oh miserable change!" (Manoah)

Track length0:54
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Accompagnato. "The good we wish for" (Manoah)

Track length1:09
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Aria. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" - Recitative. "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (Manoah, Samson)

Track length4:17
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Accompagnato. "My genial spirits droop" (Samson)

Track length1:19
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Recitative. "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah)

Track length0:54
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Chorus. "Then round about the starry throne" (Israelites)

Track length2:26
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 1

Work length10:15
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  • Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Anton Scharinger (bass), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Recitative. "Trust yet in God! Thy father's timely care" (Manoah, Samson, Micah)

Track length1:01
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Aria. "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah)

Track length3:49
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Chorus and Aria. "To dust his glory they would tread" (Israelites, Micah)

Track length5:25
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2

Work length22:33
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  • Angela Maria Blasi (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Roberta Alexander (soprano)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Aria. "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" - Recitative. "Did love constrain thee?" (Dalila, Samson)

Track length6:20
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Aria. "Your charms to ruin led the way" - Recitative. "Forgive what's done" (Samson, Dalila)

Track length3:49
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Aria and Duet. "My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Philistine Woman)

Track length4:44
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Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Virgins)

Track length1:11
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Aria. "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Dalila)

Track length1:37
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Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Virgins) [Reprise]

Track length1:18
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Recitative. "N'er think of that!" (Samson, Dalila)

Track length1:16
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Duet. "Traitor to love!" - Recitative. "She's gone! (Dalila, Samson, Micah)

Track length2:18
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 3: Chorus. "To man God's universal Law" - Recitative. "No words of peace" (Israelites, Micah, Harapha, Samson)

Work length4:19
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  • Alastair MiIes (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 4

Work length17:58
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  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conch), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Alastair MiIes (bass), Alastair Miles (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Aria. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" - Recitative. "Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster?" (Harapha, Samson)

Track length5:18
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Duet. "Go, baffled coward, go" - Recitative. "Here lies the proof" (Samson, Harapha, Micah)

Track length3:05
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Chorus. "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear" - Recitative. "Dagon, arise" (Israelites, Harapha)

Track length3:15
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Aria. "To song and dance we give the day" (A Philistine)

Track length1:23
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Chorus. "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistines)

Track length2:06
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Chorus. "Fix'd in his everlasting seat" (Israelites and Philistines)

Track length2:51
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 1

Work length16:44
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  • Alastair MiIes (bass), Anton Scharinger (bass), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Recitative. "More trouble is behind" (Micah, Samson, Harapha)

Track length1:30
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Aria. "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" - Recitative. "Reflect then" (Harapha, Micah, Samson)

Track length3:00
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Chorus. "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise" - Recitative. "Be of good courage" (Israelites, Samson, Micah, Harapha)

Track length4:23
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Accompagnato. "Then shall I make Jehovah's glory known!" (Samson)

Track length0:30
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Aria. "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson)

Track length4:03
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Accompagnato. "With might endued above the sons of men" (Micah)

Track length0:32
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Aria. "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" (Micah)

Track length1:26
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Chorus. "To fame immortal go" - Recitative. "Old Manoah, with youthful steps" (Israelites, Micah, Manoah)

Track length1:20
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 2

Work length13:56
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  • Anton Scharinger (bass), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor)
  • Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Aria. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (A Philistine)

Track length1:55
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Chorus. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" - Recitative. "What noise of joy was that?" (Philistines, Manoah, Micah)

Track length2:23
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Aria. "How willing my paternal love" - Recitative. "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Manoah, Micah)

Track length2:49
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A Symphony of Horror and Confusion - Recitative. "Heav'n! What noise!" (Manoah)

Track length0:23
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Chorus. "Hear us, our God!" - Recitative. "Noise call you this?" (Philistines, Micah, Manoah, Messenger)

Track length3:08
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Aria. "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" (Micah)

Track length2:07
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Chorus. "Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain" (Israelites)

Track length1:11
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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 3, Scene 3

Work length15:28
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  • Anton Scharinger (bass), Jochen Kowalski (countertenor), Maria Venuti (soprano)
  • Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Dead March - Recitative. "The body comes" (Micah, Manoah)

Track length3:42
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Aria with Chorus. "Glorious hero" - Recitative. "Come, come! No time for lamentation now" (Manoah, Israelites, Israelite Woman)

Track length5:13
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Aria. "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row" (Israelite Woman)

Track length3:13
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Chorus. "Let their celestial concerts all unite" (Israelites)

Track length3:20
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