Description on Youtube:
George Frideric Handel [Georg Friedrich Händel]
Samson Oratorio composed in 1741
Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert & The New Company
BBC proms subtitled
Singers: Susan Gritton, soprano; Lucy Crowe, soprano, Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Mark Padmore, tenor; Ben Johnson, tenor; Neal Davies, bass; Christopher Purves, bass
****TRACKS****
0:00:00 sinfonia
0:07:56 chorus: awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
0:09:43 ye men of gaza, hither bring
0:13:35 chorus: awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
0:14:34 torments, alas, are not confined
0:19:16 o change beyond report
0:25:11 total eclipse, no sun, no moon
0:30:15 chorus o first created beam!
0:36:44 thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue
0:42:27 why does the God of israel sleep?
0:47:38 chorus: then shall they know that
0:53:10 no more of earthly joys so false and vain
0:56:55 then round about the starry throne
1:01:04 just are the ways of God to man
1:04:44 return, o God of hosts
1:15:18 with plaintive notes and amorous moan
1:22:05 your charm to ruin led the way
1:25:02 my faith and truth
1:30:31 to fleeting pleasures make your court
1:36:02 traitor to love!
1:38:10 to man God's universal law
1:42:14 honour and arms scorn such a foe
1:48:00 go, baffled coward go
1:52:07 chorus: hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah
1:54:52 to song and dance we give the day
1:58:35 chorus: to song and dance we give the day
2:00:23 chorus: fixed in his everlasting seat
2:04:33 presuming slave, to move their wrath!
2:07:36 chorus: with thunder arm'd great God, arise!
2:12:05 thus when the sun from his watery bed
2:17:19 aria and chorus: the Holy One of Israel be my guide
2:19:58 aria and chorus: great Dagon has subdued our foe
2:24:02 how willing my paternal love
2:28:14 sinfonia
2:28:42 chorus: hear us, our God! Oh, hear our cry!
2:33:23 ye sons, of Israel, now lament
2:35:48 chorus: weep, Israel, weep a louder strain
2:38:11 funeral march
2:24:04 aria and chorus: glorious hero, may thy grave
2:48:12 let the bright Seraphin
2:51:08 let their celestial concerts unite
