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Handel: Samson

Jon Vickers (Samson), Joan Carlyle (Dalila), Joan Sutherland (Israelite Woman), James Pease (Harapha), Lauris Elms (Micah), Joseph Rouleau (Manoah)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Raymond Leppard

It seems incredible that a singer of Heldentenor quality like Vickers could sing so stylishly in Handel, with elaborate divisions perfectly executed. Not only that, his portrayal of Samson is... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 More…
  • Release Date: 17th Jan 2011
  • Catalogue No: ANDRCD9070
  • Label: Andromeda
  • Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

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Contents

Excerpt, Handel: Samson

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  • Covent Garden Orchestra
  • Raymond Leppard

Overture

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act I

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  • Jon Vickers, Joseph Rouleau, Lauris Elms
  • Covent Garden Chorus, Covent Garden Orchestra
  • Raymond Leppard

Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!

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Ye Men of Gaza

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Why By an Angel Was My Birth Foretold

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Total Eclipse! No. Sun, No Moon

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O First Created Beam!

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Brethren and Men of Dan

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To Sorrows Now I Tune My Song

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Justly These Evils Have BefalI'n Thy Son

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Why Does the God of lsrael Sleep?

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For Thee, My Dearest Son

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Then Long Eternity Shall Greet

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Joys That Are Pure, Sincerely Good

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Then Round About the Starry Throne

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act II

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  • Joan Carlyle, Lauris Elms, Jon Vickers, James Pease
  • Covent Garden Chorus, Covent Garden Orchestra
  • Raymond Leppard

Did Love Constrain. Return, O God of Hosts

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But Who is This, That So Bedeck'd and Gay

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With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan

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Did Love Constrain Thee?

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Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way

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Forgive What's Done

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My Faith and Truth

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Let Me Approach, At Least, and Touch Thy Hand

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Traitor to Love! I’ll Sue No More

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She's gone! A Serpent Manifest

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Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe

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Cam'st Thou for This, Vain Boaster?

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Go, Baffled Coward, Go

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Here Lies the Proof

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Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!

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Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!

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Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat

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Handel: Samson, HWV 57, Act III

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  • Joseph Rouleau, Lauris Elms, Jon Vickers, James Pease
  • Covent Garden Chorus, Covent Garden Orchestra
  • Raymond Leppard

More Trouble is Behind

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Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath!

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Consider, Samson, Matters Now Are Strain'd

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With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise!

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Be of Good Courage

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Thus When the Sun From's Wat'ry Bed

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Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe

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What Noise of Joy Was That?

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How Willing My Paternal Love

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Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry

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Ye Sons of lsrael

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Symphony. Dad March

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Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave

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Come, come! No Time for Lamentation Now

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Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row

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Samson HWV 57, Act III: Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite

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