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Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Symphony (4:31) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Menuet (2:03) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast" (0:35) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (1:57) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Ye men of Gaza" (4:06) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" (0:26) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" (3:27) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Why by an angel" (0:34) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Torments, alas!" (4:42) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh change beyond report" (0:52) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!" (3:13) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself" (1:21) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Total eclipse!" (3:59) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Oh first created beam!" (3:25) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Ye see, my friends" (0:56) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Brethren ond men of Dan" (0:34) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh miserable change!" (0:49) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Oh ever failing trust" (0:14) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "God of our fathers" (3:03) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "The good we wish for" (1:08) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" (4:34) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (0:14) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Accomp: "My griefs for this" (0:55) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (4:47) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "There lies our hope!" (0:21) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then shall they know" (2:49) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son" (1:59) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Then round about the starry throne" (2:34) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Trust yet in God!" (0:59) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!" (8:40) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "But who is this?" (2:27) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "With plaintive notes" (3:51) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Did Love constrain thee?" (0:30) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way" (2:35) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (0:39) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "My faith and truth" (5:23) -- Handel: Air (Dalila) and Chorus: To fleeting pleasures make your court (4:57) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!" (1:21) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Traitor to love!" - Recitative: "She's gone!" (1:55) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "It is not virtue" (2:44) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Favour'd of heaven is he" (0:24) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To man God's universal law" (2:28) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "No words of peace" (1:44) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Air: "Honour arms scorn such a foe" (5:14) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Cam'st thou for this" (0:30) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go" (2:18) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Here lies the proof" (0:49) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Hear, Jacob's God" (3:18) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Recitative: "Dagon, arise!" (0:13) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 2 - Chorus: "To song and dance we give the day" (1:57) -- Handel: Soli (Dalila, Samson, Harapha and Manoa), Chorus: Fix'd in his everlasting seat (2:49) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "More trouble is behind" (1:22) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!" (1:55) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson" (0:47) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Chorus: "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!" (2:46) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Be of good courage" (1:59) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (4:33) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "With might endued above the sons of men" (0:28) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "The Holy One of Israel" - Chorus: "To fame im- mortal go" (2:16) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Old Manoa" (0:34) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air and Chorus: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (3:39) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?" (0:52) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "How willing my paternal love" (3:46) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry" (1:53) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Noise call you this?" (0:39) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Where shall I run" (2:37) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Ye sons of Irael, now lament" - Chorus: "Weep, Israel, weep" (3:42) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Dead March (2:42) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "The body comes" (0:58) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Solo and Chorus: "Glorious hero" - Accompagnato: "The virgins too shall" - Chorus: "Bring the laurels" - Solo: "May ev'ry hero" (5:06) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Recitative: "Come, come! No time for lamentation now" (0:32) -- Handel: Samson, HWV 57 / Act 3 - Air: "Let the bright Seraphim" (6:10)