Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Handel: Samson, HWV 57: Overture

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1: Menuet - Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held" Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1: Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" Philistines

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1: Aria. "Ye Men of Gaza" Philistine Woman

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1: Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" - Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold" Philistines, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 1: Aria. "Torments, Alas, Are Not Confined" - Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report" Samson, Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2: Aria. "O mirror of our fickle state" - Recitative. "Whom have I to complain of" Micah, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2: Aria. "Total eclipse!" Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2: Accompagnato. "Since light so necessary is to life" Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 2: Chorus. "O first created beam!" - Recitative. "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" Israelites, Samson, Micah, Manoah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "Oh miserable change!" Manoah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "The good we wish for" Manoah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Aria. "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" - Recitative. "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" Manoah, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "My genial spirits droop" Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Recitative. "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 1, Scene 3: Chorus. "Then round about the starry throne" Israelites

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 1: Recitative. "Trust yet in God! Thy father's timely care" Manoah, Samson, Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 1: Aria. "Return, oh God of hosts!" Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 1: Chorus and Aria. "To dust his glory they would tread" Israelites, Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Aria. "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" - Recitative. "Did love constrain thee?" Dalila, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Aria. "Your charms to ruin led the way" - Recitative. "Forgive what's done" Samson, Dalila

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Aria and Duet. "My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" Dalila, Philistine Woman

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" Virgins

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Aria. "To fleeting pleasures make your court" Dalila

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Chorus. "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" Virgins [Reprise]

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Recitative. "N'er think of that!" Samson, Dalila

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 2: Duet. "Traitor to love!" - Recitative. "She's gone! Dalila, Samson, Micah

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 3: Chorus. "To man God's universal Law" - Recitative. "No words of peace" Israelites, Micah, Harapha, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 4: Aria. "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" - Recitative. "Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster?" Harapha, Samson

Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act 2, Scene 4: Duet. "Go, baffled coward, go" - Recitative. "Here lies the proof" Samson, Harapha, Micah