Samson – Händel: Iestyn Davies, Mark Padmore

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

Händel: Loud as the thunder’s awful voice & O mirror of our fickle state (SAMSON)

8. Air
Samson
Torments, alas, are not confin’d
To heart, or head, or breast!
But will a secret passage find
Into the very inmost mind,
With pains intense opprest,
That rob the soul itself of rest.

Scene 2
Enter Micah and Israelites, observing Samson.

9. Recitative
Micah (apart)
Oh, change beyond report, thought, or belief!
See, how he lies with languish’d head, unpropt,
Abandon’d, past all hope! Can this be he,
Heroic Samson, whom no strength of man,
Nor fury of the fiercest beast could quell?
Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid,
Ran weaponless on armies clad in iron,
Useless the temper’d steel, or coat of mail.

10. Air
Micah
Oh, mirror of our fickle state!
In birth, in strength, in deeds how great!
From highest glory fall’n so low,
Sunk in the deep abyss of woe!

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