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)