Handel Edition Volume 4 - Samson, Messiah & Arias from Rinal...

Messiah : Part 1 Symphony

Messiah : Part 1 Pastoral Symphony

Samson : Act 1 Sinfonia

Samson : Act 1 "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 1 "Ye men of Gaza, hither bring the merry pipe and pleasing string" [Dalila]

Samson : Act 1 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 1 "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" [Philistine]

Samson : Act 1 "Then free from sorrow, free from the thrall" [Philistine Woman]

Samson : Act 1 "Why by an angel was my birth foretold" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Torments, alas! are not confin'd to heart, or head, or breast!" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Oh change beyond report, thought or belief!" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Oh mirror of our fickle state!" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Whom have I to compain of but myself" [Samson] ... "Oh loss of sight! of thee I most complain!" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Total eclipse! no sun, no moon, all dark amidst the blaze of noon!" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Since light so necessary is to life" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Oh first created beam!" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 1 "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" [Samson], "Here comes thy rev'rend sire, old Manoah" [Micah, Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son" [Manoah, Micah] "O miserable change!" [Manoah] "Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!" [Israelitish Man]

Samson : Act 1 "God of our fathers, what is man?" [Israelitish Man]

Samson : Act 1 "The good we wish for, often proves our bane" [Manoah]

Samson : Act 1 "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" [Manoah]

Samson : Act 1 "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" [Samson] "Worse yet remains" [Manoah] "This have I done" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "My griefs for this forbid mine eyes to close" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "There lies our hope!" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Then shall they know" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 1 "For thee, my dearest son" [Manoah] "It should be so - to expiate my crime" [Samson] "Be for thy fate contrite" [Manoah] "Why should I live?" [Samson]

Samson : Act 1 "Then long eternity shall greet your bliss" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Joys that are pure" [Micah]

Samson : Act 1 "Then round about the starry throne" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 2 "Despair not thus" [Manoah] "Wher'er the liquid brook or fountain flow'd" [Samson] "Trust yet in God!" [Manoah]

Samson : Act 2 "Just are the way of God to man" [Manoah]

Samson : Act 2 "My evils hopeless are!" [Samson] "Relieve thy champion" [Micah]

Samson : Act 2 "Return, oh God of hosts!" [Micah]

Samson : Act 2 "To dust his glory they would tread" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 2 "But who is this?" [Micah] ... "How cunningly the sorceress displays her own transgressions" [Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" [Dalila, Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "Did Love constrain thee?" [Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "Your charms to ruin led the way" [Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "Forgive what's done" [Dalila]

Samson : Act 2 "My - Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove Dalila" [Dalila, Virgin]

Samson : Act 2 "To fleeting pleasures make your court" [Dalila]

Samson : Act 2 "How charming is domestic ease!" [Dalila]

Samson : Act 2 "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" [Chorus]

Samson : Act 2 "Ne'er think of that! I know thy warbling charms" [Samson] "Let me approach, at least" [Dalila] "Not for thy life" [Samson] "Thou art more deaf to pray'rs than winds or seas" [Dalila]

Samson : Act 2 "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" [Dalila] "Traitress to love! I'll hear no more" [Samson] "She's gone! a serpent manifest" [Micah, Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "It is not virtue, valour, wit" [Israelitish Man]

Samson : Act 2 "Favour'd of heaven is he, who finds one true" [Samson]

Samson : Act 2 "To man God's universal law gave pow'r to keep the wife in awe" [Chorus]