Handel: Samson

Recitative: Can’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson, Harapha)

Duet: Go, baffled coward, go (Samson, Harapha)

Recitative: Here lies the proof (Samson)

Hear, Jacob’s God, Jehovah, hear! (Chorus)

Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)

Fix’d in his everlasting seat (Chorus)

ACT THREE. Recitative: More trouble is behind, for Harapha (Micah, Samson, Harapha)

Air: Presuming slave, to move their wrath! (Harapha)

Recitative: Consider, Samson, matters now are strain’d (Micah, Samson)

With thunder arm’d great God, arise! (Chorus)

Recitative: Be of good courage (Samson)

Air: Thus when the sun from’s wat’try bed (Samson)

Air: Great Dagon has subdued our foe (Israelite Woman, Chorus)

Recitative: What noise of joy was that? (Manoah, Micah)

Air: How willing my paternal love (Manoah)

Recitative: Your hopes of his deliv’ry seem not vain (Micah, Manoah, Chorus)

Air: Ye sons of Israel, now lament (Micah, Chorus)

Symphony: dead march

Glorious hero, may thy grave (Manoah, Chorus)

Recitative: Come, come! no time for lamentation now (Manoah)

Air: Let the bright Seraphim in bringing row (Israelite Woman, Chorus)

Let their celestial soncerts all unite (Chorus)

SAMSON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV 57 - Symphony

ACT ONE. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound! (Chorus)

Air: Ye men of Gaza, hither bring (Israelite Woman, Chorus)

Recitative: Why by an angel was my birth foretold (Samson)

Air: Total eclipse! No sun, no moon! (Samson)

Oh first created beam! And thou great world! (Chorus)

Recitative: Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son (Manoah, Micah)

Air: To sorrows now I tune my song (Manoah)

Recitative: Justly these evils have befall’n thy son (Samson)

Air: Why does the God of Israel sleep? (Samson)

Recitative: For thee, my dearest son, must thou meanwhile (Manoah, Samson)

Air: Then long eternity shall greet your bliss (Micah)

Air: Joys that are pure, sincerely good (Micah)

Then round about the starry throne (Chorus)

ACT TWO. Air: Return, O God of hosts! (Micah)

Recitative: But who is this, that so bedeck’d and gay (Micah, Samson)

Air: With plaintive notes and am’rous moan (Israelite Woman)

Recitative: Did love constrain thee? (Samson)

Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)

Recitative: Forgive what’s done (Dalila)

Duet: My faith and truth, O Samson, prove (Dalila, Israelite Woman)

Recitative: Let me approach, at least, and touch my hand (Dalila, Samson)

Duet: Traitor to love! I’ll sue no more (Dalila, Samson)

Recitative: She’s gone! A serpent manifest (Micah, Samson, Harapha)

Air: Honour and arms scorn such a foe (Harapha)