Handel: Samson. Robert Tear, Janet Baker, London Voices [3 CD] (1993)

Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Sinfonia - English Chamber Orchestra
2. This Day, A Solemn Feast - Robert Tear
3. Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound - London Voices
4. Ye Men Of Gaza - Janet Baker
5. Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound - London Voices
6. Loud As The Thunder's Awful Voice - Robert Tear
7. Then Free From Sorrow - Janet Baker
8. Awake The Trumpet's Lofty Sound - London Voices
9. Why By An Angel - Robert Tear
10. Torments, Alas! Are Not Confin'd - Robert Tear
11. Oh Change Beyond Report - Helen Watts
12. Oh Mirror Of Our Fickle State - Helen Watts
13. Whom Have I To Complain Of/Matchless In Might!/Welcome My Friends/Which Shall We First Bewail/Oh Loss Of Sight! - Robert Tear
14. Total Eclipse - Robert Tear
15. Since Light So Necessary - Helen Watts
16. Oh First Created Beam - London Voices
17. Ye See, My Friends/The Wisest Men Have Err'd/Oh That I Had - Robert Tear
18. Brethren And Men Of Dan/Oh Miserable Change - John Shirley-Quirk
19. God Of Our Fathers - Alexander Oliver
20. The Good We Wish For - John Shirley-Quirk
21. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd - John Shirley-Quirk
22. Justly These Evils Have Befall'n/Worse Yet Remains/This Have I Done - John Shirley-Quirk
23. My Griefs For This - Robert Tear
24. Why Does The God Of Israel Sleep - Robert Tear
25. There Lies Our Hope - Helen Watts
26. Then Shall They Know - London Voices
Disc: 2
1. For Thee My Dearest Son/It Should Be So - To Expiate My Crime/Be For Thy Fate Contrite/Why Should I Live - John Shirley-Quirk
2. Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss - Helen Watts
3. Joys That Are Pure - Helen Watts
4. Then Round About The Starry Throne - London Voices
5. Despair Not Thus!/Where'er The Liquid Brook Or Fountian Flow'd - John Shirley-Quirk
6. Just Are The Way Of God To Man/Trust Yet In God - John Shirley-Quirk
7. My Evils Hopeless Are/Relieve Thy Champion - Robert Tear
8. Return, Oh God Of Hosts - Helen Watts
9. To Dust His Glory They Would Tread - London Voices
10. But Who Is This/My Wife? My Traitress!/She Stands, And Eyes Thee Fix'd/With Doubtful Feet/Out Thou Hyaena!/I Would Not Lessen My Offense/How Cunningly The Sorceress Displays - Robert Tear
11. With Plaintive Notes - Janet Baker
12. Did Love Constrain Thee - Robert Tear
13. Your Charms To Ruin Led The Way - Robert Tear
14. Forgive What's Done - Janet Baker
15. My Faith And Truth/Her Faith And Truth - Janet Baker
16. Her Faith And Truth - London Voices
17. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court - Janet Baker
18. Her Faith And Truth - London Voices
19. How Charming Is Domestic Ease - Janet Baker
20. Her Faith And Truth - London Voices
21. Ne'er Think Of That/Let Me Approach/Not For Thy Life/Thou Art More Deaf To Pray'rs Than Winds Or Seas - Robert Tear
22. Traitor To Love! I'll Sue No More/Traitress To Love! I'll Hear No More - Robert Tear
23. She's Gone! A Serpent Manifest/It Is Not Virtue - Helen Watts
24. Favour'd Of Heaven Is He - Robert Tear
25. To Man God's Universal Law - London Voices
26. No Words Of Peace/I Come Not, Samson/The Way To Know/Ha! Dost Thou Then Already Single Me/Boast Not Of What Thou Would'st Of Have Done/The Honour Certain To Have Won From Thee - Robert Tear
27. Honour And Arms Scorn Such A Foe - Benjamin Luxon
Disc: 3
1. Put On Your Arms/My Strength Is From The Living God - Robert Tear
2. With Thee!/Cam'st Thou For This - Robert Tear
3. Go, Baffled Coward, Go/Presume Not On Thy God - Robert Tear
4. Here Lies The Proof - Helen Watts
5. Hear, Jacob's God - London Voices
6. Dagon, Arise - Benjamin Luxon
7. To Song And Dance We Give The Day - Philip Langridge
8. To Song And Dance - London Voices
9. Fix'd In His Everlasting Seat - London Voices
10. More Trouble Is Behind/I Fear Him Not/Samson, To Thee Our Lords/I Am An Hebrew/This Answer Will Offend/Myself!/My Message, Given With Speed - Robert Tear
11. Presuming Slave - Benjamin Luxon
12. Reflect Then, Samson/Shall I Abuse - Robert Tear
13. With Thunder Arm'd - London Voices
14. Be Of Good Courage - Robert Tear
15. Thus When The Sun From's Wat'ry Bed - Robert Tear
16. With Might Endued - Helen Watts
17. The Holy One Of Israel Be Thy Guide/To Fame Immortal Go - London Voices
18. Old Manoa, With Youthful Steps/I Come, My Brethren - John Shirley-Quirk
19. Great Dagon Has Subdued Our Foe - London Voices
20. What Noise Of Joy Was That - John Shirley-Quirk
21. How Willing My Paternal Love - John Shirley-Quirk
22. Your Hopes Of His Deliv'ry/I Know Your Friendly Mind, And Heav'n! What Noise!/Hear Us, Our God - John Shirley-Quirk
23. Noise Call You This/Ruin Indeed/Thy Son Is Rather Slaying Them/Where Shall I Run/The Accident Was Loud/Let Me Recover Breath/Suspense In News Is Torture/Unwounded Of His Enemies He Fell - John Shirley-Quirk
24. Ye Sons Of Israel, Now Lament/Weep, Israel Weep - London Voices
25. Proceed We Hence - John Shirley-Quirk
26. Dead March - English Chamber Orchestra
27. The Body Comes - Helen Watts
28. Glorious Hero - London Voices
29. Come, Come! No Time Lamentation - John Shirley-Quirk
30. Let The Bright Seraphim - Felicity Lott
31. Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite - London Voices