Handel 1743 Samson Oratorio HWV 57 Highlights Selection Harry Bicket

George Frideric Handel [Georg Friedrich Händel]
Samson Oratorio composed in 1741 selection of highlights
Harry Bicket conducts The English Concert & The New Company
Singers: Susan Gritton, soprano; Lucy Crowe, soprano, Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Mark Padmore, tenor; Ben Johnson, tenor; Neal Davies, bass; Christopher Purves, bass

***TRACKS***
0:00:00 chorus: awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
0:02:11 chorus o first created beam!
0:05:11 thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue
0:07:05 why does the God of israel sleep?
0:12:57 chorus: then shall they know that
0:14:20 no more of earthly joys so false and vain
0:18:55 then round about the starry throne
0:20:41 to fleeting pleasures make your court
0:23:46 to man God's universal law
0:25:58 honour and arms scorn such a foe
0:31:07 go, baffled coward go
0:33:22 to song and dance we give the day
0:37:02 chorus: to song and dance we give the day
0:38:50 chorus: fixed in his everlasting seat
0:41:23 presuming slave, to move their wrath!
0:43:37 thus when the sun from his watery bed
0:48:22 aria and chorus: the Holy One of Israel be my guide
0:50:30 aria and chorus: great Dagon has subdued our foe
0:52:05 chorus: weep, Israel, weep a louder strain
0:53:34 funeral march
0:56:26 aria and chorus: glorious hero, may thy grave
0:58:43 let the bright Seraphin
1:01:38 let their celestial concerts unite