GeorG FrIeDrICH HänDeL (1685-1759) SAMSon orAtorIUM In DreI AKten HWV 57 (1741) symphony Andante – Allegro akT i Szene 1 samson (recitative): „This day, a solemn feast“ Chorus of the Priests of Dagon: „Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!“ a Philistine woman (air): „Ye men of Gaza, hither bring!“ Chorus of the Priests of Dagon: „Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound!“ a Philistine (air): „Loud as the thunder’s awful voice“ samson (recitative/air): „Why by an angel” samson (air): „Torments, alas, are not confin’d“ Szene 2 Micah (recitative): „Oh, change beyond report“ Micah (air): „O mirror of our fickle state!“ samson (recitative): „Whom have I complain of but myself“ Micah (recitative): „Matchless in might!“ samson (recitative): „Welcome, my friends“ Micah (recitative): „Which shall we first bewail“ samson (recitative): „O loss of sight“ samson (air): „Total eclipse“ Mica (accompagnato): „Since light so necessary is to life“ Chorus of israelites: „O first created beam“ Szene 3 Manoa (accompagnato): „The good we wish“ Manoa (air): „Thy glorious deeds“ samson (recitative): „Justly these evils“ samson (accompagnato): My griefs for this samson (air): „Why does the God of Israel sleep“ Micah (recitative): „There lies our hope“ Chorus of israelites: „Then shall they know“ samson (accompagnato): „My genial spirits droop“ Micah (arioso): „Then long eternity“ Micah (air): „Joys that are pure“ Chorus of israelites: „Then round about“ akT i i Szene 1 Manoa (air): „Just are the ways of God to man” samson (recitative): „My evils hopeless are“ Micah (recitative): „Relieve thy champion” Air & Chorus Micah (air): „Return, O God of hosts!” Chorus of israelites: „To dust his glory” Szene 2 Micah (recitative): „But who ist his“ samson (recitative): „My wife“ Micah (recitative): „She stands and eyes thee fix’d“ ProGrAMM Dalila (recitative): „With doubtful feet“ samson (recitative): „Out, thou hyena“ Dalila (recitative): „I would not lesson“ samson (recitative): „How cunningly“ a virgin to Dalila (air): „With plaintive“ samson (recitative): „Did love constrain thee“ samson (air): „Your charms“ Dalila (recitative): „Forgive what’s done“ Virgin, Dalila (Duet): „My faith and truth, O Samson, prove“ Chorus of Virgins: „Her faith and truth, O Samson, prove“ Dalila (air): „To fleeting pleasures“ samson (recitative): „Ne’er think of that“ Dalila (recitative): „Let me approach“ samson (recitative): „Not for thy life“ Dalila (recitative): „Thou art more“ Dalila, samson (Duet): „Traitor to love“/ „Traitress to love“ Szene 3 samson (recitative): „Favour’d of Heav’n“ Chorus of israelites: „To man God’s universal law“ Pause Szene 4 Micah (recitative): „No words of peace“ Harapha (recitative): „I come not“ samson (recitative): „The way to know“ Harapha (recitative): „Ha, dost thou then already single me“ samson (recitative): „Boast not of what“ Harapha (recitative): „The honour certain to have“ Harapha (air): „Honour and arms“ samson (recitative): „Put on your arms“ samson (air): „My strengt his from the living God“ samson (recitative): „Cam’st thou for this“ Harapha (recitative): „O Dagon! Can I hear this insolence“ samson, Harapha (Duet): „Go baffled coward“ Micah (recitative): „Here lie the proof“ Chorus of israelites: „Hear Jacob’s God“ Harapha (recitative): „Dagon arise“ a Philistne (air): „To song and dance we give the day“ Chorus of Philistines: „To song and dance we give the day“ akT i i i Szene 1 Micah (recitative): „More trouble is behind“ samson (recitative): „I fear him not“ Harapha (recitative): „Samson, to thee our lords samson (recitative): „I am an Hebrew“ Harapha (recitative): „This answer will offend“ samson (recitative): „Myself? My conscience and internal peace“ Harapha (recitative): „My message“ Harapha (air): „Presuming slave! Micah (recitative): „Reflect then, Samson“ samson (recitative): „Shall I abuse“ Micah (recitative): How thou wilt herecome off surmounts my reach“ Chorus of israelites: „With thunder arm’d, great God, arise“ samson (recitative): „Be of good courage“ Micah (recitative): „In time“ Harapha (recitative): „Samson, this second summons“ Tage alTer Musik regensburg Mai 2024 124
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