28. Recitative (air)
Micah
Then long eternity shall greet your bliss;
No more of earthly joys, so false and vain!

29. Air
Micah
Joys that are pure, sincerely good,
Shall then o’ertake you as a flood:
Where truth and peace do ever shine,
With love that’s perfectly divine.

Händel: The long eternity (from oratorio SAMSON)

Samson – Händel

Susan Gritton – Dalila
Iestyn Davies – Micah
Mark Padmore – Samson
Neal Davies – Manoa
Christopher Purves – Harapha
Lucy Crowe – Israelite woman / Philsitine woman / Virgin
Ben Johnson – Israelite man / Philistine man / Messenger

The Choir of The English Concert
The New Company
The English Concert
Harry Bicket conductor

BBC Prom – Royal Albert Hall
20 August 2009