Dunedin Consort and John Butt – Handel: Samson (Full Chorus Version) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Dunedin Consort and John Butt – Handel: Samson (Full Chorus Version) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:24:08 minutes | 7,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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Dunedin Consort continues to apply its pioneering approach to recordings by releasing two alternative performing versions of one of Handel’s greatest dramatic works, Samson. This is the Full Chorus Version.

This version employs an authentic Handelian chorus, comprising both boy trebles from the Tiffin Boys’ Choir and solo sopranos – a sonority largely unheard in the modern age.

This powerful oratorio – an opera in all but name – features Joshua Ellicott in the title role with soloists Sophie Bevan, Matthew Brook, Mary Bevan, Hugo Hymas, Jess Dandy, Vitali Rozynko and Fflur Wyn. Matching the revelatory historical practice begun in its award-winning recording of Messiah (Dublin Version, 1742), the soloists lead their sections to unite the solo and choral forces, creating a highly effective and cohesive sound. With rich orchestration and highlights such as ‘Let the bright seraphim’ and ‘Total eclipse’, Samson is Dunedin Consort’s most ambitious undertaking to date.

The singers available to Handel for the work’s first set of performances in 1743 varied considerably, leading many researchers to speculate upon the composer’s own preferences. Dunedin Consort has also recorded a Small Chorus Version which recreates the sonority heard at the work’s premiere in 1743 (as suggested by the research of Donald Burrows), which consists of the soloists alone. Customers who purchase the Full Chorus Version may email us to request a complimentary download of the Small Chorus Version.

This new Samson now becomes the top recommendation: for its uniformly excellent soloists, its excitingly ‘present’ choral singing and, above all, its more urgent sense of theatre…Sophie and Mary Bevan, both natural Handelian stylists, are well-nigh ideal… Jess Dandy, a true contralto, is the oratorio’s voice of balm, singing the sublime prayer ‘Return, O God of hosts’ with warm, even tone and broad phrasing. – Gramophone Magazine, December 2019

Butt directs with vigour: Joshua Ellicott could hardly be a more different Samson from the stentorian Jon Vickers of yesteryear, light and eloquent; Sophie Bevan is a sensual Delilah, while Dunedin regulars excel. – The Observer, 17th November 2019

Tracklist:
01. Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: I. Symphony: Andante (03:28)
02. Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: II. Symphony: Allegro (01:36)
03. Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: III. Symphony: Menuet (02:29)
04. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IV. Act 1 Scene 1: This Day, a Solemn Feast (Recitative) (00:33)
05. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: V. Act 1 Scene 1: Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus) (02:04)
06. Mary Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VI. Act 1 Scene 1: Ye Men of Gaza (Air) (04:06)
07. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VII. Act 1 Scene 1: Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus) (00:29)
08. Hugo Hymas, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VIII. Act 1 Scene 1: Loud As the Thunder’s Awful Voice (Air) (02:52)
09. Fflur Wyn, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IX. Act 1 Scene 1: Then Free from Sorrow (Air) (02:32)
10. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: X. Act 1 Scene 1: Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound! (Chorus) (00:29)
11. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XI. Act 1 Scene 1: Why by an Angel (Recitative) (00:49)
12. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XII. Act 1 Scene 1: Torments, Alas, Are Not Confin’d (Air) (04:53)
13. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIII. Act 1 Scene 2: Oh, Change Beyond Report (Recitative) (00:48)
14. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIV. Act 1 Scene 2: O Mirror of Our Fickle State! (Air) (03:38)
15. Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XV. Act 1 Scene 2: Whom Have I to Complain of but Myself (Recitative) (03:00)
16. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVI. Act 1 Scene 2: Total Eclipse! (Air) (04:03)
17. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVII. Act 1 Scene 2: Since Light so Necessary Is to Life (Accompagnato) (01:17)
18. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVIII. Act 1 Scene 2: O First Created Beam (Chorus) (03:10)
19. Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIX. Act 1 Scene 2: Ye See, My Friends (Recitative) (01:57)
20. Matthew Brook, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XX. Act 1 Scene 3: Brethren and Men of Dan (Recitative) (00:31)
21. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXI. Act 1 Scene 3: Oh, Miserable Change! (Accompagnato) (00:59)
22. Hugo Hymas, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXII. Act 1 Scene 3: Oh, Ever Failing Trust (Recitative) (00:13)
23. Hugo Hymas, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIII. Act 1 Scene 3: God of Our Fathers (Air) (02:28)
24. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIV. Act 1 Scene 3: The Good We Wish for (Accompagnato) (01:15)
25. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXV. Act 1 Scene 3: Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir’d My Tongue (Air) (04:26)
26. Joshua Ellicott, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVI. Act 1 Scene 3: Justly These Evils (Recitative) (01:40)
27. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVII. Act 1 Scene 3: My Griefs for This (Accompagnato) (01:02)
28. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVIII. Act 1 Scene 3: Why Does the God of Israel Sleep? (Air) (04:39)
29. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIX. Act 1 Scene 3: There Lies Our Hope! (Recitative) (00:22)
30. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXX. Act 1 Scene 3: Then Shall They Know (Chorus) (02:27)
31. Matthew Brook, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXI. Act 1 Scene 3: For Thee, My Dearest Son (Recitative) (01:42)
32. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXII. Act 1 Scene 3: My Genial Spirits Droop (Accompagnato) (01:28)
33. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXIII. Act 1 Scene 3: Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss (Arioso) (02:09)
34. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXIV. Act 1 Scene 3: Joys That Are Pure (Air) (03:01)
35. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXV. Act 1 Scene 3: Then Round About the Starry Throne (Chorus) (02:32)
36. Matthew Brook, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: I. Act 2 Scene 1: Despair Not Thus! (Recitative) (01:24)
37. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: II. Act 2 Scene 1: Just Are the Ways of God to Man (Air) (03:06)
38. Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: III. Act 2 Scene 1: My Evils Hopeless Are! (Recitative) (00:31)
39. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IV. Act 2 Scene 1: Return, O God of Hosts! (Air and Chorus) (07:53)
40. Jess Dandy, Joshua Ellicott, Sophie Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: V. Act 2 Scene 2: But Who Is This (Recitative) (03:23)
41. Mary Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VI. Act 2 Scene 2: With Plaintive Notes (Air) (07:13)
42. Sophie Bevan, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VII. Act 2 Scene 2: Alas! Th’Event Was Worse (Recitative) (00:59)
43. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VIII. Act 2 Scene 2: Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way (Air) (02:47)
44. Sophie Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IX. Act 2 Scene 2: Forgive What’s Done (Recitative) (00:30)
45. Sophie Bevan, Fflur Wyn, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: X. Act 2 Scene 2: My Faith and Truth (Duet) (04:25)
46. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XI. Act 2 Scene 2: Her Faith and Truth (Chorus) (01:11)
47. Sophie Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XII. Act 2 Scene 2: To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court (Air) (03:05)
48. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIII. Act 2 Scene 2: Her Faith and Truth (Chorus) (01:11)
49. Joshua Ellicott, Sophie Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIV. Act 2 Scene 2: Ne’er Think of That! (Recitative) (01:34)
50. Sophie Bevan, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XV. Act 2 Scene 2: Traitor to Love (Duet) (01:39)
51. Jess Dandy, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVI. Act 2 Scene 3: She’s Gone! (Recitative) (00:20)
52. Fflur Wyn, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVII. Act 2 Scene 3: It Is Not Virtue (Air) (03:59)
53. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVIII. Act 2 Scene 3: Favour’d of Heav’n Is He (Recitative) (00:21)
54. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIX. Act 2 Scene 3: To Man God’s Universal Law (Chorus) (02:34)
55. Jess Dandy, Vitali Rozynko, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XX. Act 2 Scene 4: No Words of Peace (Recitative) (01:54)
56. Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXI. Act 2 Scene 4: Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe (Air) (05:44)
57. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXII. Act 2 Scene 4: Put on Your Arms (Recitative) (00:11)
58. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIII. Act 2 Scene 4: My Strength Is from the Living God (Air) (02:55)
59. Vitali Rozynko, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIV. Act 2 Scene 4: With Thee, a Man Condemn’d (Recitative) (00:52)
60. Joshua Ellicott, Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXV. Act 2 Scene 4: Go, Baffled Coward, Go (Duet) (02:18)
61. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVI. Act 2 Scene 4: Here Lie the Proof (Recitative) (00:51)
62. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVII. Act 2 Scene 4: Hear, Jacob’s God (Chorus) (03:23)
63. Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXVIII. Act 2 Scene 4: Dagon, Arise (Recitative) (00:16)
64. Hugo Hymas, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIX. Act 2 Scene 4: To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Air) (04:06)
65. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXX. Act 2 Scene 4: To Song and Dance We Give the Day (Chorus) (02:04)
66. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXXI. Act 2 Scene 4: Fix’d in His Everlasting Seat (Chorus and Soli) (03:04)
67. Jess Dandy, Joshua Ellicott, Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: I. Act 3 Scene 1: More Trouble Is Behind (Recitative) (01:38)
68. Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: II. Act 3 Scene 1: Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath! (Air) (03:22)
69. Jess Dandy, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: III. Act 3 Scene 1: Reflect Then, Samson (Recitative) (00:51)
70. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IV. Act 3 Scene 1: With Thunder Arm’d, Great God, Arise! (Chorus) (02:41)
71. Joshua Ellicott, Jess Dandy, Vitali Rozynko, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: V. Act 3 Scene 1: Be of Good Courage (Recitative) (02:19)
72. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VI. Act 3 Scene 1: Then Shall I Make Jehovah’s Glory Known! (Accompagnato) (00:31)
73. Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VII. Act 3 Scene 1: Thus When the Sun from’s Wat’ry Bed (Air) (04:43)
74. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: VIII. Act 3 Scene 1: With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men (Accompagnato) (00:32)
75. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: IX. Act 3 Scene 1: The Holy One of Israel (Air and Chorus) (02:21)
76. Jess Dandy, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: X. Act 3 Scene 2: Old Manoa, with Youthful Steps (Recitative) (00:29)
77. Hugo Hymas, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XI. Act 3 Scene 2: Great Dagon Has Subdu’d Our Foe (Air and Chorus) (03:45)
78. Matthew Brook, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XII. Act 3 Scene 2: What Noise of Joy Was That? (Recitative) (00:49)
79. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIII. Act 3 Scene 2: How Willing My Paternal Love (Air) (03:44)
80. Jess Dandy, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIV. Act 3 Scene 2: Your Hopes of His Deliv’ry (Recitative) (00:17)
81. Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XV. Act 3 Scene 2: Symphony: Presto (00:19)
82. Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVI. Act 3 Scene 2: Heav’n! What Noise! (Recitative) (00:05)
83. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVII. Act 3 Scene 2: Hear Us, Our God! (Chorus) (01:12)
84. Jess Dandy, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XVIII. Act 3 Scene 2: Noise Call You This? (Recitative) (00:48)
85. Hugo Hymas, Jess Dandy, Matthew Brook, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XIX. Act 3 Scene 3: Where Shall I Run (Recitative) (03:48)
86. Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XX. Act 3 Scene 3: Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament (Air and Chorus) (03:43)
87. Matthew Brook, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXI. Act 3 Scene 3: Proceed We Hence to Find His Body (Recitative) (01:44)
88. Matthew Brook, Mary Bevan, Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXII. Act 3 Scene 3: Glorious Hero (Soli and Chorus) (05:39)
89. Matthew Brook, Jess Dandy, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIII. Act 3 Scene 3: Come, Come! (Recitative) (01:04)
90. Mary Bevan, Dunedin Consort, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXIV. Act 3 Scene 3: Let the Bright Seraphim (Air) (02:58)
91. Dunedin Consort, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, John Butt – Samson, HWV 57: XXV. Act 3 Scene 3: Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite (Chorus) (03:09)

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