Disc 1-2

• 01 Handel: Samson - Overture
• 02 I. Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held"
• 03 II. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
• 04 III. Air. "Ye Men of Gaza, Hither Bring"
• 05 IV. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
• 06 V. Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold"
• 07 I. Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report"
• 08 II. Recitative. "Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself"
• 09 III. Air. "Total Eclipse!"
• 10 IV. Accompagnato. "Since Light So? Necessary Is to Life"
• 11 V. Chorus. "O First Created Beam!"
• 12 VI. Recitative. "Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclose Me Round"
• 13 I. Air. "Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue"
• 14 II. Accompagnato. "To Sorrow Now I Tune"
• 15 III. Recitative. "Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son"
• 16 IV. Accompagnato. "My Genial Spirits Droop, My Hopes Are Fled"
• 17 V. Chorus. "Then Round About the Starry Throne"
• 18 I. Recitative and Air. "Trust yet in God! - Return, O God of Hosts! Behold"
• 19 I. Recitative. "But Who Is This, That so Bedeck'd and Gay"
• 20 II. Recitative. "With Doubtful Feet"
• 21 III. Air. "With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan"
• 22 IV. Recitative. "Did Love Constrain Thee?"
• 23 V. Air. "Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way"
• 24 VI. Recitative. "Forgive What's Done, nor Think of What's Past Cure"
• 25 VII. Air. "My Faith and Truth, O Samson"
• 26 VIII. Air. "To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court"
• 27 IX. Chorus of Virgins. "Her Faith and Truth, Oh Samson"
• 28 X. Recitative. "Ne'er Think of That!"
• 29 XI. Duet. "Traitor to Love!" - "Traitress to Love!"
• 30 I. Recitative. "She's Gone!"
• 31 II. Chorus of Israelites. "To Man God's Universal Law"
• 32 I. Recitative. "No Words of Peace"
• 33 II. Air. "Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe"
• 34 III. Recitative. "Cam'st Thou for This, Vain Boaster?"
• 35 IV. Duet. "Go, Baffled Coward, Go" - "Presume No on Thy God"
• 36 V. Recitative. "Here Lies the Proof"
• 37 VI. Chorus of Israelites. "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!"
• 38 VII. Recitative. "Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!"
• 39 VIII. Air. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
• 40 IX. Chorus of Philistines. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
• 41 X. Chorus of Israelites and Philistines. "Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat"
• 42 I. Recitative. "More Trouble Is Behind"
• 43 II. Air. "Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath!"
• 44 III. Recitative. "Reflect Then Samson, Matters Now Are"
• 45 IV. Chorus of Israelites. "With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise!"
• 46 V. Recitative. "Be of Good Courage, I Begin to Feel"
• 47 VI. Air. "Thus When the Sun from's Wat'ry Bed"
• 48 VII. Accompagnato. "With Might Endu'd Above the Sons of Men"
• 49 VIII. Air and Chorus. "The Holy One of Israel Be Thy Guide"
• 50 I. Recitative. "Old Manoah, with Youthful Steps"
• 51 II. Air. "Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe"
• 52 III. Recitative. "What Noise of Joy Was That?"
• 53 IV. Air. "How Willing My Paternal Love"
• 54 V. Recitative. "Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry Seem not Vain"
• 55 VI. Recitative. "Noise Call You This?"
• 56 I. Air & Chorus. "Ye Sons of lsrael, Now Lament"
• 57 II. Symphony. Dead March
• 58 III. Recitative. "The Body Comes"
• 59 IV. Air & Chorus. "Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave"
• 60 V. Recitativo & Chorus of Virgins. "May Evr'y Hero Fal Like Thee"
• 61 VI. Chorus of Virgins. "Bring the Laurels, Bring the Bays"
• 62 VII. Recitative. "Come, Come! No Time for Lamentation Now"
• 63 VIII. Air. "Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row"
• 64 IX. Chorus of Israelites. "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"