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Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)

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Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)

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On Handel: Samson

2015 · 47 tracks

01Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)0:53
01SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony4:10
02ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)1:58
02Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)2:27
03Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)4:21
03Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)1:02
04Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)1:18
04Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)3:49
05Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)0:20
05Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)5:09
06Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)4:13
06Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)3:08
07Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)1:08
07ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)1:51
08Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)2:34
08Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)2:18
09Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)1:37
09Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)1:06
10With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)3:06
10Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)3:27
11Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)2:15
11Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)1:15
12Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)1:02
12Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)4:34
13Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)3:50
13Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)2:05
14Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)3:28
14Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)0:58
15Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)4:05
15ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)4:12
16Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)2:10
16Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)1:48
17Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)4:34
17Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)4:27
18Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)0:55
18Symphony: dead march3:42
19Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)4:14
19Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)3:49
20Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)0:33
20Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)0:43
21Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)6:28
21Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)4:00
22Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)3:01
22Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)0:31
23Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)1:40
24Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)2:25
25Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)5:48