Handel Edition Volume 4 - Samson, Messiah & Arias from Rinaldo, Serse etc
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- # Track Artist Length
- 1 Messiah : Part 1 Symphony 3:12
- 2 Messiah : Part 1 "Comfort ye my people" 3:35
- 3 Messiah : Part 1 "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" 3:36
- 4 Messiah : Part 1 "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed" 2:38
- 5 Messiah : Part 1 "Thus saith the Lord" 1:37
- 6 Messiah : Part 1 "But who may abide the day of his coming?" 4:43
- 7 Messiah : Part 1 "And he shall purify the sons of Levi" 2:50
- 8 Messiah : Part 1 "Behold, a virgin shall concieve, and bear a son" 0:27
- 9 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part 1: "O thou that tellest good tiding to Zion" 3:48
- 11 Messiah : Part 1 "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth" 2:53
- 12 Messiah : Part 1 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light" 4:10
- 13 Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: For Unto Us a Child Is Born 4:16
- 14 Messiah : Part 1 Pastoral Symphony 3:22
- 15 Messiah : Part 1 "There were shepherds abiding in the field" "And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them" "And the angel said unto them - Fear not" "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude 1:56
- 16 Messiah : Part 1 "Glory to God in the highest" 1:54
- 17 Messiah : Part 1 "Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion" 4:25
- 18 Messiah : Part 1 "Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened" 0:26
- 19 Messiah : Part 1 "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd" 6:3
- 20 Messiah : Part 1 "His yoke is easy" 2:48
- 21 Messiah : Part 2 "Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world" 4:4
- 22 Messiah : Part 2 "He was despised and rejected of men" 11:44
- 23 Messiah : Part 2 "Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows" 2:25
- 24 Messiah : Part 2 "And with his stripes we are healed" 2:11
- 25 Messiah : Part 2 "All we like sheep have gone astray" 4:25
- 26 Messiah : Part 2 "All they that see him laugh him to scorn" 0:55
- 27 Messiah : Part 2 "He trusted in God that he would deliver him" 2:38
- 28 Messiah : Part 2 "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart" 1:54
- 29 Messiah : Part 2 "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto his sorrow" 1:52
- 30 Messiah : Part 2 "He was cut off out of the land of the living" 0:19
- 31 Messiah : Part 2 "But thou didst not leave his soul in hell" 2:31
- 32 Messiah : Part 2 "Lift up your heads, o ye gates" 3:27
- 33 Messiah : Part 2 "Unto which of the angels said he at any time" 0:18
- 34 Messiah : Part 2 "Let all the angels of God worship him" 1:44
- 35 Messiah : Part 2 "Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive" 3:37
- 36 Messiah : Part 2 "The Lord gave the word - great was the company of the preachers" 1:19
- 37 Messiah : Part 2 "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace" 2:28
- 38 Messiah : Part 2 "Their sound is gone out into all lands" 1:9
- 39 Messiah : Part 2 "Why do the nations so furiously rage together" 2:40
- 40 Messiah : Part 2 "Let us break their bonds asunder" 2:11
- 41 Messiah : Part 2 "He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn" 0:17
- 42 Messiah : Part 2 "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron" 2:16
- 43 Messiah, HWV 56, Part 2: "Hallelujah" (Chorus) 4:3
- 44 Messiah HWV 56 : Part 3 "I know that my Redeemer liveth" 6:37
- 45 Messiah : Part 3 "Since by man came death" 2:19
- 46 Messiah : Part 3 "Behold, I tell you a mystery" 0:43
- 47 Messiah : Part 3 "The trumpet shall sound" 8:11
- 48 Messiah : Part 3 "Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written" 0:20
- 49 Messiah : Part 3 "O death, where is thy sting?" 1:41
- 50 Messiah : Part 3 "But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory" 3:30
- 51 Messiah : Part 3 "If God be for us, who can be against us?" 4:31
- 52 Messiah : Part 3 "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain" 3:50
- 53 Messiah : Part 3 "Amen" 4:24
- 54 Samson : Act 1 Sinfonia 8:42
- 55 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Samson) 0:37
- 56 Samson : Act 1 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!" [Chorus] 2:13
- 57 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Ye men of Gaza, hither bring" (Dalila) 3:43
- 58 Samson : Act 1 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" [Chorus] 0:35
- 59 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" (Philistine) 3:5
- 60 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Then free from sorrow" (Philistine Woman) 2:49
- 62 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Why by an angel was my birth foretold" (Samson) 1:10
- 63 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Torments, alas! are not confin'd" (Samson) 3:35
- 64 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Oh change beyond report" (Micah) 0:55
- 65 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Oh mirror of our fickle state!" (Micah) 3:47
- 66 Samson : Act 1 "Whom have I to compain of but myself" [Samson] ... "Oh loss of sight! of thee I most complain!" [Samson] 2:22
- 67 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Total eclipse!" (Samson) 3:57
- 68 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah) 1:24
- 69 Samson : Act 1 "Oh first created beam!" [Chorus] 4:10
- 70 Samson : Act 1 "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" [Samson], "Here comes thy rev'rend sire, old Manoah" [Micah, Samson] 1:39
- 71 Samson : Act 1 "Brethren and men of Dan, say, where is my son" [Manoah, Micah] "O miserable change!" [Manoah] "Oh ever failing trust in mortal strength!" [Israelitish Man] 1:52
- 72 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "God of our fathers, what is man?" (Israelite Man) 2:31
- 73 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "The good we wish for, often proves our bane" (Manoah) 1:14
- 74 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" (Manoah) 4:49
- 75 Samson : Act 1 "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" [Samson] "Worse yet remains" [Manoah] "This have I done" [Samson] 1:36
- 76 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "My griefs for this forbid mine eyes to close" (Samson) 1:11
- 77 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (Samson) 5:16
- 78 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "There lies our hope!" (Micah) 0:23
- 79 Samson : Act 1 "Then shall they know" [Chorus] 2:28
- 80 Samson : Act 1 "For thee, my dearest son" [Manoah] "It should be so - to expiate my crime" [Samson] "Be for thy fate contrite" [Manoah] "Why should I live?" [Samson] 2:59
- 81 Samson, HWV 57, Act 1: "Then long eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah) 2:6
- 82 Samson : Act 1 "Joys that are pure" [Micah] 3:9
- 83 Samson : Act 1 "Then round about the starry throne" [Chorus] 2:18
- 84 Samson : Act 2 "Despair not thus" [Manoah] "Wher'er the liquid brook or fountain flow'd" [Samson] "Trust yet in God!" [Manoah] 1:20
- 85 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Just are the way of God to man" (Manoah) 3:53
- 86 Samson : Act 2 "My evils hopeless are!" [Samson] "Relieve thy champion" [Micah] 0:46
- 87 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah) 4:48
- 88 Samson : Act 2 "To dust his glory they would tread" [Chorus] 3:33
- 89 Samson : Act 2 "But who is this?" [Micah] ... "How cunningly the sorceress displays her own transgressions" [Samson] 3:1
- 90 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" (Dalila, Samson) 7:38
- 91 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Did Love constrain thee?" (Samson) 0:49
- 92 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Your charms to ruin led the way" (Samson) 3:9
- 93 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila) 0:34
- 94 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "My faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Virgin) 4:35
- 95 Samson : Act 2 "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" [Chorus] 1:13
- 96 Samson : Act 2 "To fleeting pleasures make your court" [Dalila] 1:50
- 98 Samson : Act 2 "How charming is domestic ease!" [Dalila] 1:47
- 100 Samson : Act 2 "Ne'er think of that! I know thy warbling charms" [Samson] "Let me approach, at least" [Dalila] "Not for thy life" [Samson] "Thou art more deaf to pray'rs than winds or seas" [Dalila] 1:33
- 101 Samson : Act 2 "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" [Dalila] "Traitress to love! I'll hear no more" [Samson] "She's gone! a serpent manifest" [Micah, Samson] 2:5
- 102 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "It is not virtue, valour, wit" (Israelite Man) 5:10
- 103 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Favour'd of heaven is he" (Samson) 0:18
- 104 Samson : Act 2 "To man God's universal law gave pow'r to keep the wife in awe" [Chorus] 3:10
- 105 Samson : Act 2 "No words of peace, no voice enchanting fear" [Micah] ... "The honour certain to have won from thee I lose" [Harapha] 1:56
- 106 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" (Harapha) 6:11
- 107 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Put on your arms" (Samson) 3:9
- 108 Samson : Act 2 "With thee!" [Harapha] "Cam'st thou for this, vain boaster?" [Samson, Harapha] 0:47
- 109 Samson : Act 2 "Go, baffled coward, go" [Samson] "Presume not on thy God" [Harapha] 2:36
- 110 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Here lies the proof" (Micah) 0:51
- 111 Samson : Act 2 "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!" [Chorus] 2:57
- 112 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "Dagon, arise! attend thy sacred feast!" (Harapha) 0:18
- 113 Samson, HWV 57, Act 2: "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistine) 4:20
- 114 Samson : Act 2 "To song and dance we give the day" [Chorus] 2:18
- 115 Samson : Act 2 "Fix'd in his everlasting seat" [Chorus] 3:2
- 116 Samson : Act 3 "More trouble is behind" [Micah] ... "My message, given with speed, brooks no delay" [Harapha] 1:16
- 117 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath!" (Harapha) 2:42
- 118 Samson : Act 3 "Reflect then, Samson, matters now are strain'd" [Micah] "Shall I abuse this consecrated gift of strength" [Samson] 0:46
- 119 Samson : Act 3 "With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!" [Chorus] 3:19
- 120 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Be of good courage" (Samson, Micah, Harapha) 2:42
- 121 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson) 4:22
- 122 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "With might endued, above the sons of men" (Micah) 0:41
- 123 Samson : Act 3 "The Holy One of Israel be thy guide" [Micah] "To fame immortal go" [Chorus] 2:43
- 124 Samson : Act 3 "Old Manoah, with youthful steps, makes haste to find his son" [Micah] "I come, my brethren, not to seek my son" [Manoah] 0:27
- 125 Samson : Act 3 "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" [Philistine] "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" [Chorus] 3:50
- 126 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "What noise of joy was that?" (Manoah, Micah) 0:50
- 127 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "How willing my paternal love" (Manoah) 3:35
- 128 Samson : Act 3 "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" [Micah] "I know your friendly minds, and - Heav'n! what noise!" [Manoah] "Hear us, our God!" [Chorus] 1:48
- 129 Samson : Act 3 "Noise call you this? an universal groan" [Micah] ... "Unwounded of his enemies he fell" [Messenger, Manoah] 1:59
- 130 Samson : Act 3 "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" [Micah] "Weep, Israel, weep" [Chorus] 3:47
- 131 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Proceed we hence to find his body" (Manoah) 0:53
- 132 Samson : Act 3 Dead March 2:48
- 133 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "The body comes" (Micah, Manoah) 0:59
- 134 Samson : Act 3 "Glorious hero, may thy grave peace and honour ever have" [Chorus] 5:12
- 135 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Come, come! no time for lamentation" (Manoah) 1:4
- 136 Samson, HWV 57, Act 3: "Let the bright Seraphim" (Israelite Woman) 3:31
- 137 Samson : Act 3 "Let their celestial concerts all unite" [Chorus] 3:35
- 138 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act 3: "Or la tromba in suon festante" (Rinaldo) 3:51
- 139 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act 1: "Cara sposa" (Rinaldo) 9:48
- 140 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act 1: "Venti, turbini, prestate" (Rinaldo) 4:55
- 141 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act 1: "Cor ingrato, ti rammembri" (Rinaldo) 4:42
- 142 Serse : Act 1 "Frondi tenere e belle... Ombra mai fù di vegetabile" [Serse] 4:17
- 143 Partenope : Act 2 "Furibondo spira il vento" [Arsace] 4:52
- 144 Agrippina : Act 3 "Bel piacere è godere fido amor!" [Poppea] 2:24
- 145 Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act 2: "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Almirena) 5:3
- 146 Orlando : Act 1 "Fammi combattere mostri e tifei" [Orlando] 3:52
- 147 Serse, HWV 40, Act 1: "Ombra mai fu" (Serse) 3:35
- 148 Ariodante, HWV 33, Act 3: "Dopo notte, atra e funesta" (Ariodante) 7:18
- 150 Giulio Cesare : Act 3 "Caro... Bella" [Cleopatra, Cesare] 5:5
- 151 Hercules : Act 3 " Where shall I fly" [Dejanira] 6:31
- 152 Semele : Act 2 "Hence, Iris, hence away" [Juno] 3:41

