Samson, HWV 57: Act II

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Relationships

composer:	George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer)
librettist:	Newburgh Hamilton

part of:

Samson, HWV 57 (order: 3)

parts:

1. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Despair not thus! (Manoah/Samson)
2. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: Just are the ways of God to man (Mahoah)
3. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: My Evils Hopeless Are! (Samson/Micah)
4. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: Return, O God of Hosts! (Micah). Chorus: To Dust His Glory They Would Tread
5. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: But who is this ? (Micah/Samson/Dalila)
6. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: With plaintive notes (Delila)
7. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw (Dalila). Did love constrain thee? (Samson)
8. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: Your charms to ruin led the way (Samson)
9. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Forgive what's done (Dalila)
10. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Duet: My/Her faith and truth (Delilah/Virgin). Chorus: Her faith and truth
11. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: To fleeting pleasures (Delilah). Chorus: Her faith and truth.
12. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Ne’er think of that! (Samson/Dalila).
13. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Duet:Traitor to love! I'll sue no more (Dalila/Samson)
14. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: She's gone! (Micah). So let her go! (Samson)
15. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: It is not virtue, valour, wit (Micah)
16. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Favoured of heaven is he (Samson)
17. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Chorus: To man God's universal law
18. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: No words of peace (Micah/Harapha/Samson)
19. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: Honour and Arms (Harapha)
20. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Put on your arms (Samson)
21. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: My strength is from the living God (Samson)
22. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: With thee, a man condemn'd (Harapha). Cam’st thou for this, vain boaster? (Samson/Harapha)
23. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Duet: Go, baffled coward (Samson/Harapha)
24. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Here lies the proof (Micah)
25. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Chorus: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!
26. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Recitative: Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast! (Harapha)
27. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Air: To song and dance we give the day (Philistine man)
28. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Chorus: To song and dance we give the day
29. Samson, HWV 57: Act II. Chorus: Fix'd in his everlasting seat

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
	recordings
	Samson, HWV 57: “Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe”		Bryn Terfel, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras	5:51