Movements
As catalogued on IMSLP.
- 1 Overture
- 2 Scene 1
- 3 Recitative (Samson): This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held
- 4 Air (Philistine Woman): Ye men of Gaza, hither bring
- 5 Air (Philistine): Loud as the thunder's awful voice
- 6 Air (Philistine Woman): Then free from sorrow, free from thrall
- 7 Recitative (Samson): Why by an angel was my birth foretold
- 8 Scene 2
- 9 Recitative (Micah): Oh, change beyond report, thought, or belief!
- 10 Recitative (Samson, Micah): Whom have I to complain of but myself
- 11 Accompagnato (Micah): Since light so necessary is to life
- 12 Chorus of Israelites: O first created beam!
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- 13 Recitative (Samson, Micah, Manoah)
- 14 Micah. Here comes thy rev'rend sire, old Manoah – Samson. Alas! Another grief that name awakes.
- 15 Scene 3
- 16 Accompagnato (Manoah): Oh, miserable change!
- 17 Recitative (Israelitish Man): Oh, ever failing trust
- 18 Air (Israelitish Man): God of our fathers, what is man?
- 19 Accompagnato (Manoah): The good we wish for, often proves our bane
- 20 Air (Manoah): Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue
- 21 Recitative (Samson, Manoah)
- 22 Samson: This have I done
- 23 Accompagnato (Samson): My griefs for this
- 24 Air (Samson): Why does the God of lsrael sleep?
- 25 Recitative (Micah): There lies our hope!
- 26 Chorus of Israelites: Then shall they know
- 27 Recitative (Manoah, Samson)
- 28 Manoah. Be for thy fate contrite
- 29 Samson. Why should I live?
- 30 Accompagnato (Samson): My genial spirits droop
- 31 Recitative (Micah): Then long eternity
- 32 Air (Micah): Joys that are pure
- 33 Chorus of Israelites: Then round about the starry throne
- 34 Scene 1
- 35 Recitative (Manoah, Samson)
- 36 Air (Manoah): Just are the ways of God to man
- 37 Recitative (Samson, Micah)
- 38 Air and Chorus (Micah, Israelites)
- 39 Scene 2
- 40 Recitative (Samson, Micah, Dalila)
- 41 Air (Philistine Woman / Dalila): With plaintive notes
- 42 Recitative (Dalila, Samson)
- 43 Air (Samson): Your charms to ruin led the way
- 44 Recitative (Dalila): Forgive what's done
- 45 Air and Duet (Dalila, Philistine Woman)
- 46 Air (Dalila): To fleeting pleasures
- 47 Recitative (Samson, Dalila)
- 48 Duet (Dalila, Samson): Traitor to love! I'll sue no more
- 49 Scene 3
- 50 Recitative (Micah, Samson)
- 51 Air (Micah): It is not virtue, valour, wit
- 52 Recitative (Samson): Favour'd of heaven is he
- 53 Chorus of Israelites: To man God's universal law
- 54 Scene 4
- 55 Recitative (Micah, Harapha, Samson)
- 56 Air (Harapha): Honour and arms
- 57 Recitative (Samson): Put on your arms
- 58 Air (Samson): My strength is from the living God
- 59 Recitative (Harapha, Samson)
- 60 Duet (Samson, Harapha): Go, baffled coward; Presume not on thy God
- 61 Recitative (Micah): Here lies the proof
- 62 Chorus of Israelites: Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!
- 63 Recitative (Harapha): Dagon, arise, attend thy sacred feast!
- 64 Air (A Philistine): To song and dance we give the day
- 65 Chorus of Philistines: To song and dance we give the day
- 66 Chorus of Israelites and Philistines: Fix'd in his everlasting seat
- 67 Scene 1
- 68 Recitative (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
- 69 Air (Harapha): Presuming slave, to move their wrath!
- 70 Recitative (Micah, Samson)
- 71 Chorus of Israelites: With thunder arm'd, great God, arise!
- 72 Recitative (Samson, Micah, Harapha)
- 73 Accompagnato (Samson): Then shall I make Jehovah's glory
- 74 Air (Samson): Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed
- 75 Accompagnato (Micah): With might endu'd above the sons of men
- 76 Air and Chorus (Micah): The Holy One of Israel be thy guide
- 77 Scene 2
- 78 Recitative (Micah, Manoah)
- 79 Air (Philistine): Great Dagon has subdu'd our foe
- 80 Chorus of Philistines: Great Dagon has subdu'd our foe
- 81 Recitative (Manoah, Micah)
- 82 Air (Manoah): How willing my paternal love
- 83 Recitative (Micah, Manoah)
- 84 Chorus of Philistines: Hear us, our God! Oh, hear our cry!
- 85 Recitative (Micah, Manoah)
- 86 Scene 3
- 87 Recitative (Messenger, Micah, Manoah)
- 88 Air and Chorus (Micah, Israelites): Ye sons of lsrael, now lament
- 89 Recitative (Manoah): Proceed we hence to find his body
- 90 Symphony: Dead March
- 91 Recitative (Micah, Manoah)
- 92 Air and Chorus (Manoah, Israelites): Glorious hero, may thy grave
- 93 Solo and Chorus (Israelite Woman, Virgins)
- 94 Recitative (Manoah, Micah)
- 95 Air (Israelite Woman): Let the bright seraphim
- 96 Chorus of Israelites: Let their celestial concerts all unite
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