Handel: Samson

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Overture
• 2. This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held
• 3. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 4. Ye Men of Gaza
• 5. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 6. Loud As the Thunder's Awful Voice
• 7. Then Free from Sorrow, Free from Thrall
• 8. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 9. Why By an Angel Was My Birth Foretold
• 10. Torments Alas! Are Not Confin'd
• 11. O Change Beyond Report, Thought, Or Belief!
• 12. O Mirror of Our Fickle State
• 13. Whom Have I to Complain of But Myself
• 14. Totel Eclipse!
• 15. Since Light So Necessary Is to Life
• 16. Oh First Created Beam!
• 17. Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclosed Me Round
• 18. Brethren and Men of Dan, Say, Where Is My Son
• 19. Oh Miserable Change!
• 20. Oh Ever Failing Trust in Mortal Strength!
• 21. God of Our Fathers, What Is Man?
• 22. The Good We Wish For, Often Proves Our Bane
• 23. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue
• 24. Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son
• 25. My Griefs for This
• 26. Why Does the God of Israel Sleep?
• 27. These Lies Our Hope!
• 28. Then Shall They Know
• 29. For Thee, My Dearest Son
• 30. Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss
• 31. Then Round About the Starry Throne

Disc 2

• 1. Despair Not Thus!
• 2. Just Are the Ways of God to Man
• 3. My Evils Hopeless Are!
• 4. Return, Oh God of Hosts! - To Dust His Glory
• 5. But Who Is This, That So Bedeck'd and Gay
• 6. With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan
• 7. Alas! Th'event Was Worse Than I Foresaw
• 8. Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way
• 9. Forgive What's Done, Nor Think of What's Past Cure
• 10. My Faith and Truth - Her Faith and Truth
• 11. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court - Her Faith and Truth
• 12. Ne'er Think of That!
• 13. Traitor to Love! - She's Gone!
• 14. It Is Not Virtue, Valour, Wit
• 15. Favour'd of Heaven Is He
• 16. To Man God's Universal Law
• 17. No Words of Peace
• 18. Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe
• 19. Put On Your Arms
• 20. My Strength Is from the Living God
• 21. With Thee! A Man Condemn'd
• 22. Go, Baffled Coward, Go
• 23. Here Lie the Proof
• 24. Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah
• 25. Dagon, Arise!
• 26. To Song and Dance We Give the Day
• 27. To Song and Dance We Give the Day
• 28. Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat

Disc 3

• 1. More Trouble Is Behind
• 2. Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath
• 3. Reflect Then, Samson, Matters Now Are Strain'd
• 4. With Thunder Arm'd Great God, Arise!
• 5. Be of Good Courage
• 6. Thus When the Sun From's Wat'ry Bed
• 7. With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men
• 8. The Holy One of Israel Be Thy Guide - To Fame Immortal Go
• 9. Old Manoa, With Youthful Steps, Makes Haste
• 10. Great Dagon Has Subdued Our Foe
• 11. What Noise of Joy Was That?
• 12. How Willing My Paternal Love
• 13. Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry Seem Not Vain - Hear Us, Our God!
• 14. Noise Call You This
• 15. Where Shall I Run
• 16. Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament - Weep Israel
• 17. Proceed We Hence to Find His Body
• 18. Dead March
• 19. The Body Comes
• 20. Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave Peace
• 21. Come! No Time for Lamentation Now
• 22. Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row