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Händel komponierte das Oratorium Samson gleich nach der Fertigstellung des Messiah im September/Oktober 1741 ? sogar noch ohne konkrete Aufführungspläne, da er bereits im November zu einem zehnmonatigen Aufenthalt in Dublin aufbrach. Zu dieser Zeit befand er sich auf dem unstrittigen Höhepunkt seines Oratorienschaffens, und das englische Publikum erachtete ihn nach den gefeierten Vertonungen von Texten der bedeutenden Dichter der 1730er Jahre John Dryden und John Milton (beide Cäcilien-Oden und das Oratorium L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato) als einen würdigen Vertoner klassischer englischer Verse. Samson war einer der ganz großen Erfolge Händels zu seinen Lebzeiten und von den Zeitgenossen gelegentlich sogar über den Messiah gestellt. Die Vorlage, Miltons Trauerspiel ?Samson Agonistes? von 1671, war nicht für die Bühne gedacht, sondern als kontemplatives Lesedrama konzipiert. Entsprechend ist das Werk, anders als etwa die direkt dramatisch angelegten Oratorien Hercules oder Semele ein Seelendrama, in dem die Arien und Rezitative nicht Teil einer darstellbaren Handlung sind, sondern die Gemütszustände der Protagonisten beschreiben. Bemerkenswerterweise gibt Händel hier die symmetrische Anlage der Da-capo-Arie aus der italienischen Oper weitgehend auf und experimentiert stattdessen mit alternativen Formen. Der griechischen Tragödie folgend ist dem Chor als Kommentator eine bedeutende Rolle zugewiesen, was der Komponist weidlich ausnutzt und was sicherlich mit zum Erfolg des Werks beigetragen hat. Für die Londoner Uraufführung in der Saison 1743 überarbeitete Händel nach seiner Rückkehr aus Dublin die fast fertige Partitur und fügte u.a. mit der Arie Let the bright Seraphim noch einen der zündendsten Hits ein. Bei seiner Einspielung hat sich John Butt für diese Fassung entschieden und wartet mit einem perfekt aufeinander abgestimmten Solistenensemble auf, das vom Dunedin Consort optimal unterstützt wird.
| CD 1 | |||
| 1 | Samson, HWV 57 | ||
| 2 | Allegro | 00:01:36 | |
| 3 | Menuet | 00:02:30 | |
| 4 | This Day, a Solemn Feast (Recitative) | 00:00:34 | |
| 5 | Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound! (Chorus) | 00:02:04 | |
| 6 | Ye Men of Gaza (Air) | 00:04:06 | |
| 7 | Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound! (Chorus) | 00:00:30 | |
| 8 | Loud As the Thunder's Awful Voice (Air) | 00:02:53 | |
| 9 | Then Free from Sorrow (Air) | 00:02:33 | |
| 10 | Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound! (Chorus) | 00:00:29 | |
| 11 | Why by an Angel (Recitative) | 00:00:49 | |
| 12 | Torments, Alas, Are Not Confin'd (Air) | 00:04:53 | |
| 13 | Oh, Change Beyond Report (Recitative) | 00:00:49 | |
| 14 | O Mirror of Our Fickle State! (Air) | 00:03:38 | |
| 15 | Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself (Recitative) | 00:03:00 | |
| 16 | Total Eclipse! (Air) | 00:04:04 | |
| 17 | Since Light so Necessary Is to Life (Accompagnato) | 00:01:17 | |
| 18 | O First Created Beam (Chorus) | 00:03:10 | |
| 19 | Ye See, My Friends (Recitative) | 00:01:57 | |
| 20 | Brethren and Men of Dan (Recitative) | 00:00:32 | |
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| 21 | Oh, Miserable Change! (Accompagnato) | 00:00:59 | |
| 22 | Oh, Ever Failing Trust (Recitative) | 00:00:13 | |
| 23 | God of Our Fathers (Air) | 00:02:29 | |
| 24 | The Good We Wish for (Accompagnato) | 00:01:16 | |
| 25 | Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue (Air) | 00:04:26 | |
| 26 | Justly These Evils (Recitative) | 00:01:41 | |
| 27 | My Griefs for This (Accompagnato) | 00:01:02 | |
| 28 | Why Does the God of Israel Sleep? (Air) | 00:04:39 | |
| 29 | There Lies Our Hope! (Recitative) | 00:00:23 | |
| 30 | Then Shall They Know (Chorus) | 00:02:28 | |
| 31 | For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recitative) | 00:01:42 | |
| 32 | My Genial Spirits Droop (Accompagnato) | 00:01:29 | |
| 33 | Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss (Arioso) | 00:02:09 | |
| 34 | Joys That Are Pure (Air) | 00:03:01 | |
| 35 | Then Round About the Starry Throne (Chorus) | 00:02:32 | |
| CD 2 | |||
| 1 | Despair Not Thus! (Recitative) | 00:01:25 | |
| 2 | Just Are the Ways of God to Man (Air) | 00:03:06 | |
| 3 | My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recitative) | 00:00:31 | |
| 4 | Return, O God of Hosts! (Air and Chorus) | 00:07:53 | |
| 5 | But Who Is This (Recitative) | 00:03:24 | |
| 6 | With Plaintive Notes (Air) | 00:07:14 | |
| 7 | Alas! Th'Event Was Worse (Recitative) | 00:00:59 | |
| 8 | Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way (Air) | 00:02:48 | |
| 9 | Forgive What's Done (Recitative) | 00:00:30 | |
| 10 | My Faith and Truth (Duet) | 00:04:26 | |
| 11 | Her Faith and Truth (Chorus) | 00:01:11 | |
| 12 | To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air) | 00:03:06 | |
| 13 | Her Faith and Truth (Chorus) | 00:01:11 | |
| 14 | Ne'er Think of That! (Recitative) | 00:01:34 | |
| 15 | Traitor to Love (Duet) | 00:01:39 | |
| 16 | She's Gone! (Recitative) | 00:00:20 | |
| 17 | It Is Not Virtue (Air) | 00:04:00 | |
| 18 | Favour'd of Heav'n Is He (Recitative) | 00:00:21 | |
| 19 | To Man God's Universal Law (Chorus) | 00:02:34 | |
| 20 | No Words of Peace (Recitative) | 00:01:55 | |
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| 21 | Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Air) | 00:05:44 | |
| 22 | Put on Your Arms (Recitative) | 00:00:11 | |
| 23 | My Strength Is from the Living God (Air) | 00:02:56 | |
| 24 | With Thee, a Man Condemn'd (Recitative) | 00:00:52 | |
| 25 | Go, Baffled Coward, Go (Duet) | 00:02:18 | |
| 26 | Here Lie the Proof (Recitative) | 00:00:51 | |
| 27 | Hear, Jacob's God (Chorus) | 00:03:24 | |
| 28 | Dagon, Arise (Recitative) | 00:00:16 | |
| 29 | To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Air) | 00:04:06 | |
| 30 | To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Chorus) | 00:02:04 | |
| 31 | Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat (Chorus and Soli) | 00:03:04 | |
| CD 3 | |||
| 1 | More Trouble Is Behind (Recitative) | 00:01:38 | |
| 2 | Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath! (Air) | 00:03:23 | |
| 3 | Reflect Then, Samson (Recitative) | 00:00:51 | |
| 4 | With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise! (Chorus) | 00:02:42 | |
| 5 | Be of Good Courage (Recitative) | 00:02:19 | |
| 6 | Then Shall I Make Jehovah's Glory Known! (Accompagnato) | 00:00:31 | |
| 7 | Thus When the Sun from's Wat'ry Bed (Air) | 00:04:43 | |
| 8 | With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men (Accompagnato) | 00:00:32 | |
| 9 | The Holy One of Israel (Air and Chorus) | 00:02:21 | |
| 10 | Old Manoa, with Youthful Steps (Recitative) | 00:00:29 | |
| 11 | Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe (Air and Chorus) | 00:03:45 | |
| 12 | What Noise of Joy Was That? (Recitative) | 00:00:50 | |
| 13 | How Willing My Paternal Love (Air) | 00:03:44 | |
| 14 | Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry (Recitative) | 00:00:17 | |
| 15 | Presto | 00:00:19 | |
| 16 | Heav'n! What Noise! (Recitative) | 00:00:06 | |
| 17 | Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus) | 00:01:12 | |
| 18 | Noise Call You This? (Recitative) | 00:00:49 | |
| 19 | Where Shall I Run (Recitative) | 00:03:49 | |
| 20 | Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament (Air and Chorus) | 00:03:43 | |
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| 21 | Proceed We Hence to Find His Body (Recitative) | 00:01:44 | |
| 22 | Glorious Hero (Soli and Chorus) | 00:05:39 | |
| 23 | Come, Come! (Recitative) | 00:01:05 | |
| 24 | Let the Bright Seraphim (Air) | 00:02:58 | |
| 25 | Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus) | 00:03:09 | |