1Handel: Samson, HWV 57 - Symfony - Andante - Allegro - Allegro - Menuet
2Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast"
3Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
4Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza"
5Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
6Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"
7Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Then free from sorrow"
8Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
9Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel"
10Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!"
11Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report"
12Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state !"
13Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself"
14Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!"
15Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!"
16Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends"
17Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan"
18Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!"
19Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust"
20Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers"
21Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for"
22Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue"
23Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son"
24Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
25Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!"
26Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know"
27Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son"
28Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss"
29Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Joys that are pure"
30Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne"
31Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!"
32Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!"
33Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!"
34Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air and Chorus: "To dust his glory they would tread"
35Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?"
36Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "With doubtful feet"
37Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes"
38Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?"
39Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way"
40Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done"
41Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth"
42Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
43Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air, 1st verse:"To fleeting pleasures make your court"
44Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
45Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air, 2nd verse: "How charming is domestic ease!"
46Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Her faith and truth"
47Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!"
48Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!"
49Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "She's gone!"
50Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue"
51Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he"
52Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law"
53Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace"
54Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe"
55Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this"
56Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go"
57Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof"
58Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God"
59Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!"
60Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "To song and dance we give the day"
61Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day"
62Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 2 - Double Chorus: "Fix'd in this everlasting seat"
63Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind"
64Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!"
65Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson"
66Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!"
67Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage"
68Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
69Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men"
70Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go"
71Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa"
72Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"
73Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?"
74Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love"
75Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry"
76Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Hear us, our God!"
77Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?"
78Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run"
79Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep"
80Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Proceed we hence"
81Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March
82Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes"
83Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero"
84Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! no time for lamentation now"
85Handel: Samson / Act 3, HWV 57 - Air: "Let The Bright Seraphim"
86Handel: Samson HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"
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