Partager
SAMSON
Georg Friedrich HAENDEL
Leonardo GARCIA ALARCON - Matthew NEWLIN...
- Ref. BH4392
- RICERCAR, 2020. Enregistrement 2018.
Plus encore qu'un simple récit narratif, Samson est un drame d'une grande profondeur psychologique. En trois actes, on assiste en effet à la lente mais inexorable résurrection mentale d'un homme élu de Dieu qui, abattu par les remords, se reconstruit peu à peu. La conscience de son erreur le nourrit et l'aide à concevoir un décisif retournement de situation. Enchaîné et privé à tout jamais de ses yeux, Samson est pourtant peu à peu certain de son pouvoir. Pour libérer Israël, il va parvenir à regagner la clémence de Dieu et à anéantir d'un seul coup le peuple de ses geôliers. [Outhere Music]
Interprètes
- Leonardo GARCIA ALARCON : Direction, Orgue, Clavecin
- Matthew NEWLIN : Ténor
- Klara EK : Soprano
- Lawrence ZAZZO : Contre-ténor
- Luigi DI DONATO : Basse [voix]
- Julie ROSET : Soprano
- Maxime MELNIK : Ténor
- CHOEUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR : Choeur mixte
- MILLENIUM ORCHESTRA : Orchestre de chambre
Œuvres
- Samson, oratorio, HWV 57
Pistes
Disque 1
- 1 Samson HWV 57, Act I: Overture
- 2 I. Recitative. "This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held"
- 3 II. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
- 4 III. Air. "Ye Men of Gaza, Hither Bring"
- 5 IV. Chorus. "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!"
- 6 V. Recitative. "Why by an Angel Was My Birth Foretold"
- 7 Samson HWV 57, Act I, Scene 2 - I. Recitative. "Oh, Change Beyond Report"
- 8 II. Recitative. "Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself"
- 9 III. Air. "Total Eclipse!"
- 10 IV. Accompagnato. "Since Light So? Necessary Is to Life"
- 11 V. Chorus. "O First Created Beam!"
- 12 VI. Recitative. "Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclose Me Round"
- 13 Samson HWV 57, Act I, Scene 3 - I. Air. "Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue"
- 14 II. Accompagnato. "To Sorrow Now I Tune"
- 15 III. Recitative. "Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son"
- 16 IV. Accompagnato. "My Genial Spirits Droop, My Hopes Are Fled"
- 17 V. Chorus. "Then Round About the Starry Throne"
- 18 Samson HWV 57, Act II, Scene 1 - I. Recitative and Air. "Trust yet in God! - Return, O God of Hosts! Behold"
- 19 Samson HWV 57, Act II, Scene 2 - I. Recitative. "But Who Is This, That so Bedeck'd and Gay"
- 20 II. Recitative. "With Doubtful Feet"
- 21 III. Air. "With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan"
- 22 IV. Recitative. "Did Love Constrain Thee?"
- 23 V. Air. "Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way"
- 24 VI. Recitative. "Forgive What's Done, nor Think of What's Past Cure"
- 25 VII. Air. "My Faith and Truth, O Samson"
- 26 VIII. Air. "To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court"
- 27 IX. Chorus of Virgins. "Her Faith and Truth, Oh Sams
Disque 2
- 1 X. Recitative. "Ne'er Think of That!"
- 2 XI. Duet. "Traitor to Love!" - "Traitress to Love!"
- 3 Samson HWV 57, Act II, Scene 3 - I. Recitative. "She's Gone!"
- 4 II. Chorus of Israelites. "To Man God's Universal Law"
- 5 Samson HWV 57, Act II, Scene 4 - I. Recitative. "No Words of Peace"
- 6 II. Air. "Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe"
- 7 III. Recitative. "Cam'st Thou for This, Vain Boaster?"
- 8 IV. Duet. "Go, Baffled Coward, Go" - "Presume No on Thy God"
- 9 V. Recitative. "Here Lies the Proof"
- 10 VI. Chorus of Israelites. "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, Hear!"
- 11 VII. Recitative. "Dagon, Arise, Attend Thy Sacred Feast!"
- 12 VIII. Air. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
- 13 IX. Chorus of Philistines. "To Song and Dance We Give the Day"
- 14 X. Chorus of Israelites and Philistines. "Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat"
- 15 Samson HWV 57, Act III, Scene 1 - I. Recitative. "More Trouble Is Behind"
- 16 II. Air. "Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath!"
- 17 III. Recitative. "Reflect Then Samson, Matters Now Are"
- 18 IV. Chorus of Israelites. "With Thunder Arm'd, Great God, Arise!"
- 19 V. Recitative. "Be of Good Courage, I Begin to Feel"
- 20 VI. Air. "Thus When the Sun from's Wat'ry Bed"
- 21 VII. Accompagnato. "With Might Endu'd Above the Sons of Men"
- 22 VIII. Air and Chorus. "The Holy One of Israel Be Thy Guide"
- 23 Samson HWV 57, Act III, Scene 2 - I. Recitative. "Old Manoah, with Youthful Steps"
- 24 II. Air. "Great Dagon Has Subdu'd Our Foe"
- 25 III. Recitative. "What Noise of Joy Was That?"
- 26 IV. Air. "How Willing My Paternal Love"
- 27 V. Recitative. "Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry Seem not Vain"
- 28 VI. Recitative. "Noise Call You This?"
- 29 Samson HWV 57, Act III, Scene 3 - I. Air & Chorus. "Ye Sons of lsrael, Now Lament"
- 30 II. Symphony. Dead March
- 31 III. Recitative. "The Body Comes"
- 32 IV. Air & Chorus. "Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave"
- 33 V. Recitativo & Chorus of Virgins. "May Evr'y Hero Fal Like Thee"
- 34 VI. Chorus of Virgins. "Bring the Laurels, Bring the Bays"
- 35 VII. Recitative. "Come, Come! No Time for Lamentation Now"
- 36 VIII. Air. "Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row"
- 37 IX. Chorus of Israelites. "Let Their Celestial Con