Nicholas McGegan, FestspielOrchester Gottingen, NDR Chor - Handel: Samson (2009)
Nicholas McGegan, FestspielOrchester Göttingen, NDR Chor - Handel: Samson (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 806 Mb | Total time: 60:09+57:46+49:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.425 | Recorded: 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 806 Mb | Total time: 60:09+57:46+49:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Carus | # 83.425 | Recorded: 2008
Handel’s English oratorios, though unstaged, generally remain vividly theatrical. Samson is less operatic, opening with the hero already defeated, blinded and in chains, long after Dalila’s seduction and subsequent treachery.
The drama is of the mind rather than of action, with virtually no incidents in Act I, and Act II limited to two encounters, Dalila offering remorse and the giant Harapha mocking the captive.
Nicholas McGegan’s approach focuses on this depiction of states of mind and emotions. Tempos are reflective rather than animated, while instrumental expression and phrasing is strikingly subtle. Of his soloists, Thomas Cooley makes a tragic Samson, from his first soliloquy on his mental anguish, through a heart-rending ‘Total eclipse’ to his humility and returning strength in Act III.
Among many high points is the ‘Scena’ opening Act II, Micah’s ‘Return O God of Hosts’ with deeply sensitive orchestral support, the astonishingly unpredictable tonality of the middle section, the chorus joining in the da capo repeat. Sophie Daneman is a convincing Dalila, though every sustained note acquires a rather prominent vibrato.
Doubling as ‘An Israelite woman’ in Act III, her fast passage-work in ‘Let the bright Seraphim’ is thrilling. Other characters are no less strong, Wolf Matthias Friedrich a mighty, arrogant Harapha, and William Berger, as Samson’s father Manoa, a tragic onlooker.
Nicholas McGegan’s chorus numbers almost 50, large by today’s fashion, but transparent and characterful in its roles as Israelites and Philistines. The SACD recording retains crystal clarity in the dangerously reverberant acoustic of Dresden’s Frauenkirche.– George Pratt
Performed:
Samson - Thomas Cooley
Dalila - Sophie Daneman
Micah - Franziska Gottwald
Manoah - William Berger
Harapha - Wolf Matthias Friedrich
Philister und Israelit - Michael Slattery
Philisterin und Israelitin - Sophie Daneman
NDR Chor
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Conductor - Nicholas McGegan
Track List:
CD1:
01. Act 1. Symphony
02. Menuet
03. Recit. This day, a solemn feast
04. Chorus. Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
05. Air. Ye men of Gaza
06. Chorus. Swake the trumpet's lofty sound!
07. Air. Loud as the thunder's
08. Recit. Why by an angel
09. Air. Torments, alas!
10. Recit. Oh change beyond report
11. Air. Oh mirror of our fickle state!
12. Recit. Whom have I
13. Air. Total eclipse!
14. Chorus. O first created beam
15. Recit. You see, my friends
16. Recit. Brethren and men
17. Accomp. Oh miserable change!
18. Recit. Oh ever failing trust
19. Air. God of our fathers
20. Accomp. The good we wish for
21. Air. Thy glorious deeds
22. Recit. Justly these evils
23. Accomp. My griefs for this
24. Air. Why does the God of Israel
25. Recit. There lies our hope
26. Chorus. Then shall they know
27. Recit., Accomp. For thee
28. Chorus. Then round about the starry throne
CD2:
01. Act 2. Recit. Trust yet
02. Air, Chorus. Return, Oh God of hosts
03. Recit. But who is
04. Air. With plaintive notes
05. Recit. Did love constrain thee?
06. Air. Your charms to ruin
07. Recit. Forgive what's done
08. Duet. My faith and truth
09. Air and Chorus. To fleeting pleasures make your court
10. Recit. Ne'er think of that
11. Air. Fly in virtue's veil
12. Recit. Favour'd of heaven is he
13. Chorus. To man God's universal law
14. Recit., Air. No words of peace
15. Air. Honour and arms
16. Recit. Cam'st thou for this
17. Duet. Go, baffled coward, go
18. Recit. Here lies the proof
19. Chorus. Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!
20. Chorus. To song and dance
21. Soli., Chorus. Fix'd in his everlasting seat
CD3:
01. Act 3. Recit. More trouble is behind
02. Air. Presuming slave
03. Recit. Reflect then, Samson
04. Chorus. With thunder arm'd
05. Recit. Be of good courage
06. Air. Thus when the sun
07. Accomp. With might endu'd
08. Air and Chorus. The Holy One of Israel
09. Recit. Old Manoa with youthful steps
10. Air and Chorus. Great Dagon has subdued our foe
11. Recit. What noise of joy
12. Air. How willing my paternal love
13. Recit., Symphony and Chorus. Your hopes of his deliv'ry
14. Recit. Noise call you this?
15. Recit. Where shall I run
16. Air and Chorus. Ye sons of Israel
17. Dead March
18. Accomp. and Chorus . Glorious hero
19. Recit. Come, come!
20. Air and Chorus. Let the bright Seraphims
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