Handel: Samson

Samson, HWV 57, Symphony: I. Andante

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Samson, HWV 57, Symphony: II. Allegro

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Samson, HWV 57, Symphony: III. Menuet

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: I. This Day, a Solemn Feast (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: II. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: III. Ye Men of Gaza (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: IV. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: V. Loud As the Thunder’s Awful Voice (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: VI. Then Free from Sorrow (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: VII. Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: VIII. Why by an Angel (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 1: IX. Torments, Alas, Are Not Confin’d (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: I. Oh, Change Beyond Report (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: II. O Mirror of Our Fickle State! (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: III. Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: IV. Total Eclipse! (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: V. Since Light so Necessary Is to Life (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: VI. O First Created Beam (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 2: VII. Ye See, My Friends (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: I. Brethren and Men of Dan (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: II. Oh, Miserable Change! (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: III. Oh, Ever Failing Trust (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: IV. God of Our Fathers (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: V. The Good We Wish for (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: VI. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir’d My Tongue (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: VII. Justly These Evils (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: VIII. My Griefs for This (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: IX. Why Does the God of Israel Sleep? (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: X. There Lies Our Hope! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XI. Then Shall They Know (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XII. For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XIII. My Genial Spirits Droop (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XIV. Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss (Arioso)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XV. Joys That Are Pure (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 1 Scene 3: XVI. Then Round About the Starry Throne (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 1: I. Despair Not Thus! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 1: II. Just Are the Ways of God to Man (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 1: III. My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 1: IV. Return, O God of Hosts! (Air and Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: I. But Who Is This (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: II. With Plaintive Notes (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: III. Alas! Th’Event Was Worse (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: IV. Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: V. Forgive What’s Done (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: VI. My Faith and Truth (Duet)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: VII. Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: VIII. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: IX. Her Faith and Truth (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: X. Ne’er Think of That! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 2: XI. Traitor to Love (Duet)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 3: I. She’s Gone! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 3: II. It Is Not Virtue (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 3: III. Favour’d of Heav’n Is He (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 3: IV. To Man God’s Universal Law (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: I. No Words of Peace (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: II. Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: III. Put on Your Arms (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: IV. My Strength Is from the Living God (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: V. With Thee, a Man Condemn’d (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: VI. Go, Baffled Coward, Go (Duet)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: VII. Here Lie the Proof (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: VIII. Hear, Jacob’s God (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: IX. Dagon, Arise (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: X. To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: XI. To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 2 Scene 4: XII. Fix’d in His Everlasting Seat (Chorus and Soli)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: I. More Trouble Is Behind (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: II. Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath! (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: III. Reflect Then, Samson (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: IV. With Thunder Arm’d, Great God, Arise! (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: V. Be of Good Courage (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: VI. Then Shall I Make Jehovah’s Glory Known! (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: VII. Thus When the Sun from’s Wat’ry Bed (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: VIII. With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men (Accompagnato)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 1: IX. The Holy One of Israel (Air and Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: I. Old Manoa, with Youthful Steps (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: II. Great Dagon Has Subdu’d Our Foe (Air and Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: III. What Noise of Joy Was That? (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: IV. How Willing My Paternal Love (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: V. Your Hopes of His Deliv’ry (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: Symphony: I. Presto

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: I. Heav’n! What Noise! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: II. Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 2: III. Noise Call You This? (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: I. Where Shall I Run (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: II. Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament (Air and Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: III. Proceed We Hence to Find His Body (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: IV. Glorious Hero (Soli and Chorus)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: V. Come, Come! (Recitative)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: VI. Let the Bright Seraphim (Air)

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Samson, HWV 57, Act 3 Scene 3: VII. Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus)

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