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Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Return, oh God of hosts"

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Samson (Lodon Voices & English Chamber Orchestra feat. conductor: Raymond Leppard)
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1993 · 84 tracks

01Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Put on your arms" / "My strength is from the living God"3:08
01Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "For thee my dearest son" / "It should be so - to expiate my crime" / "Be for thy fate contrite" / "Why should I live"2:58
01Samson: Act I. Sinfonia8:41
02Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "With thee!" / "Cam'st thou for this"0:47
02Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "This day, a solemn feast"0:37
02Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then long eternity shall greet your bliss"2:06
03Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Go, baffled coward, go" / "Presume not on thy God"2:37
03Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"2:14
03Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Joys that are pure"3:10
04Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Here lies the proof"0:52
04Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Ye men of Gaza"3:43
04Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then round about the starry throne"2:18
05Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Despair not thus" / "Where'er the liquid brook or fountain flow'd"1:21
05Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"0:36
05Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Hear, Jacob's God"2:58
06Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Dagon, arise"0:18
06Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Just are the way of God to man" / "Trust yet in God"3:54
06Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Loud as the thunder's awful voice"3:05
07Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Then free from sorrow"2:49
07Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance we give the day"4:21
07Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "My evils hopeless are" / "Relieve thy champion"0:46
08Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "To song and dance"2:18
08Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "Return, oh God of hosts"4:48
08Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound"0:34
09Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Fix'd in his everlasting seat"3:03
09Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Why by an angel"1:10
09Samson: Act II, Scene 1. "To dust his glory they would tread"3:33
10Samson: Act I, Scene 1. "Torments, alas! are not confin'd"3:36
10Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "More trouble is behind" / "I fear him not" / "Samson, to thee our Lords" / "I am an Hebrew" / "This answer will offend" / "Myself!" / "My message, given with speed"1:15
10Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "But who is this" / "My wife? my traitress!" / "She stands, and eyes thee fix'd" / "With doubtful feet" / "Out thou hyæna!" / "I would not lessen my offense" / "How cunningly the sorceress displays"3:02
11Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Presuming slave"2:43
11Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "With plantive notes"7:39
11Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh change beyond report"0:55
12Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Reflect then, Samson" / "Shall I abuse"0:46
12Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Did love constrain thee"0:49
12Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh mirror of our fickle state"3:48
13Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Whom have I to complain of" / "Matchless in might!" / "Welcome, my friends" / "Which shall we first bewail" / "Oh loss of sight!"2:23
13Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With thunder arm'd"3:20
13Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Your charms to ruin led the way"3:09
14Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Forgive what's done"0:34
14Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Be of good courage"2:43
14Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Total eclipse"3:57
15Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "My faith and truth" / "Her faith and truth"4:36
15Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Since light so necessary"1:25
15Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"4:23
16Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "With might endued"0:41
16Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"1:14
16Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Oh first created beam"4:11
17Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "To fleeting pleasures make your court"1:50
17Samson: Act I, Scene 2. "Ye see, my friends" / "The wisest men have err'd" / "Oh that I had"1:39
17Samson: Act III, Scene 1. "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" / "To fame immortal go"2:44
18Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Old Manoa, with youthful steps" / "I come, my brethren"0:27
18Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Brethren and men of Dan" / "Oh miserable change" / "Oh ever failing trust"1:52
18Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"1:13
19Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" / "Great Dagon has subdued our foe"3:51
19Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "How charming is domestic ease"1:48
19Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "God of our fathers"2:32
20Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "What noise of joy was that"0:50
20Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Her faith and truth"1:14
20Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "The good we wish for"1:15
21Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Ne'er think of that" / "Let me approach" / "Not for thy life" / "Thou art more deaf to pray'rs than winds or seas"1:33
21Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd"4:50
21Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "How willing my paternal love"3:35
22Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Justly these evils have befall'n" / "Worse yet remains" / "This have I done"1:36
22Samson: Act II, Scene 2. "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" / "Traitress to love! I'll hear no more" / Scene 3. "She's gone! a serpent manifest"2:06
22Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Your hopes of his deliv'ry" / "I know your friendly mind, and Heav'n! what noise!" / "Hear us, our God"1:48
23Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "My griefs for this"1:11
23Samson: Act III, Scene 2. "Noise call you this" / "Ruin indeeed" / "Thy son is rather slaying them" / Scene 3. "Where shall I run" / "The accident was loud" / "Let me recover breath" / "Suspense in news is torture" / "Unwounded of his enemies he fell"1:59
23Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "It is not virtue"5:11
24Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "Favour'd of heaven is he"0:18
24Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" / "Weep, Israel, weep"3:48
24Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Why does the God of Israel sleep"5:17
25Samson: Act II, Scene 3. "To man God's universal law"3:10
25Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "There lies our hope"0:24
25Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Proceed we hence"0:53
26Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Dead March"2:48
26Samson: Act I, Scene 3. "Then shall they know"2:28
26Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "No words of peace" / "I come not, Samson" / "The way to know" / "Ha! dost thou then already single me" / "Boast not of what thou would'st of have done" / "The honour certain to have won from thee"1:56
27Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "The body comes"1:00
27Samson: Act II, Scene 4. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe"6:11
28Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Glorious hero"5:13
29Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Come, come! no time for lamentation"1:04
30Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let the bright Seraphim"3:31
31Samson: Act III, Scene 3. "Let their celestal concerts all unite"3:35