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Act One
Scene 1
1-1	Overture
1-2	This Day, A Solemn Feast To Dagon Held
1-3	Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
1-4	Ye Men Of Gaza, Hither Bring
1-5	Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
1-6	Loud As The Thunder's Awful Voice
1-7	Then Free From Sorrow
1-8	Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound
1-9	Why By An Angel Was My Birth Foretold
1-10	Torments Alas!
Scene 2
1-11	O Change Beyond Report
1-12	O Mirror Of Our Fickle State!
1-13	Whom Have I To Complain Of But Myself
1-14	Total Eclipse!
1-15	Since Light So Necessary Is To Life
1-16	Oh First Created Beam!
1-17	Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclose Me Round
Scene 3
1-18	Brethren And Men Of Dan
1-19	Oh Miserable Change!
1-20	Oh Ever Failing Trust In Mortal Strength!
1-21	God Of Our Fathers, What Is Man?
1-22	The Good We Wish For, Often Proves Our Bane
1-23	Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue
1-24	Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son
1-25	My Griefs For This
1-26	Why Does The God Of Israel Sleep?
1-27	There Lies Our Hope!
1-28	Then Shall They Know
1-29	For Thee, My Dearest Son
1-30	Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss
1-31	Then Round About The Starry Throne
Act Two
2-1	Despair Not Thus!
2-2	Just Are The Ways Of God To Man
2-3	My Evils Hopeless Are!
2-4	Return, Oh God Of Hosts!
Scene 2
2-5	But Who Is This
2-6	With Plaintive Notes And Am'rous Moan
2-7	Alas! Th' Event Was Worse Than I Foresaw
2-8	Your Charms To Ruin Led The Way
2-9	Forgive What's Done
2-10	My Faith And Truth, Oh Samson, Prove
2-11	To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court
2-12	Ne'er Think Of That!
2-13	Traitor To Love!
Scene 3
2-14	It Is Not Virture
2-15	Favour'd Of Heaven Is He
2-16	To Man God's Universal Law
Scene 4
2-17	No Words Of Peace
2-18	Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe
2-19	Put On Your Arms
2-20	My Strength Is From The Living God
2-21	With Thee!
2-22	Go, Baffled Coward, Go
2-23	Here Lie The Proof
2-24	Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!
2-25	Dagon, Arise!
2-26	To Song And Dance We Give The Day
2-27	To Song And Dance We Give The Day
2-28	Fix'd In His Everlasting Seat
Act Three
3-1	More Trouble Is Behind
3-2	Presuming Slave
3-3	Reflect Then, Samson
3-4	With Thunder Arm'd Great God, Arise!
3-5	Be Of Good Courage
3-6	Thus When The Sun From's Wat'ry Bed
3-7	With Might Endued Above The Sons Of Men
3-8	The Holy One Of Israel Be Thy Guide
Scene 2
3-9	Old Manoa, With Youthful Steps
3-10	Great Dago Has Subdued Our Foe
3-11	What Noise Of Joy Was That?
3-12	How Willing My Paternal Love
3-13	Your Hopes Of His Deliv'ry Seem Not Vain
3-14	Noise Call You This?
Scene 3
3-15	Where Shall I Run
3-16	In Life And Death
3-17	Proceed We Hence To Find His Body
3-18	Dead March
3-19	The Body Comes
3-20	Glorious Hero
3-21	Come, Come!
3-22	Let The Bright Seraphim

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Sixteen Productions Ltd
• Copyright (c) – The Sixteen Productions Ltd
• Recorded At – Church Of St. Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead

Credits

• Alto Vocals [Micah] – Catherine Wyn-Rogers
• Alto Vocals [The Sixteen] – Andrew Giles , Christopher Royall, Michael Lees, Philip Newton
• Bass – Cecelia Bruggemeyer, Peter Buckoke
• Bass Vocals [Harapha] – Jonathan Best
• Bass Vocals [Manoa] – Michael George
• Bass Vocals [Samson] – Thomas Randle
• Bass Vocals [The Sixteen] – Michael McCarthy, Robert Evans , Simon Birchall, Timothy Jones
• Bassoon – Christopher Robson , Frances Eustace
• Cello – Helen Verney, Jane Coe, Susan Sheppard
• Chorus – The Sixteen
• Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
• Conductor – Harry Christophers
• Design – Richard Boxall Design Associates
• Engineer – Mike Clements, Mike Hatch
• Flute – Rachel Beckett, Uta Ikeda*
• Harpsichord – Laurence Cummings
• Horn – Martin Lawrence , Roger Montgomery
• Libretto By – Newburgh Hamilton
• Liner Notes – Anthony Hicks
• Oboe – Anthony Robson, Cherry Forbes, Gail Hennessey
• Orchestra – The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• Organ – Paul Nicholson
• Photography By [Cover] – Hirsham F. Ibrahim
• Producer – Mark Brown
• Remastered By – Julian Millard
• Soprano Vocals [Dalila] – Lynda Russell
• Soprano Vocals [Israelite Woman, Philistine Woman, Virgin] – Lynne Dawson
• Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Carolyn Sampson, Carys Lane, Helen Groves, Katie Pringle, Rebecca Outram, Ruth Dean
• Tenor Vocals [Israelite Man, Philistine Man] – Mark Padmore
• Tenor Vocals [Messenger] – Matthew Vine
• Tenor Vocals [The Sixteen] – Andrew Carwood, David Roy, Matthew Vine, Philip Cave, Simon Berridge, Simon Davies
• Theorbo – Robin Jeffrey
• Timpani – Benedict Hoffnung
• Trumpet – Crispian Steele-Perkins, David Blackadder, Robert Farley
• Viola – David Brooker, Nicola Akeroyd
• Violin – Claire Sansom, David Woodcock, Fiona Huggett, Miranda Fulleylove, Pauline Smith, Peter Lissauer, Stefanie Heichelheim, Stephen Jones , Theresa Caudle, Walter Reiter, William Thorp

Notes

CD1: 72:40
CD2: 78:05
CD3: 54:10
Originally released on Collins Classics

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 828021600821