Esta es otra de las historias que cuenta mi amigo invisible. Gira en torno a la Cantata del Café BWV 211 de Johann Sebastian Bach.
“Cuando J.S.Bach era cantor en la Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Leipzig hubo un momento en el que se sintió un poco cansado de la rigidez que suponía dicho cargo, ya que él deseaba componer otras cosas al margen de la música religiosa. Junto con otros músicos formó entonces el Collegium Musicum que posteriormente pasó a dirigir. Hasta aquí nada raro. La gracia de esos encuentros …

Samson – Händel
86. Air
Israelite Woman
Let the bright seraphim in burning row,
Their loud, uplifted angel trumpets blow.
Let the cherubic host, in tuneful choirs,
Touch their immortal harps with golden wires.
87. Chorus of Israelites
Let their celestial concerts all unite,
Ever to sound his praise in endless blaze of light.
Händel: Let the bright Seraphim (from oratorio SAMSON)

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 …

79. Air and Chorus
Micah
Ye sons of lsrael, now lament,
Your spear is broke, your bow’s unbent.
Your glory’s fled,
Amongst the dead
Great Samson lies,
For ever, ever, clos’d his eyes!
Israelites
Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain;
Samson, your strength, your hero, is slain!
Händel: Ye sons of Israel now lament (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 …

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
Händel: How willing my paternal love (from oratorio SAMSON)

74. Air
Manoah
How willing my paternal love
The weight to share
Of filial care,
And part of sorrow’s burden prove!
Though wand’ring in the shades of night,
Whilst I have eyes he wants no light.
Entrada …

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
Händel: Great Dagon

71. Air
Philistine, at a distance
Great Dagon has subdu’d our foe
And brought their boasted hero low:
Sound out his pow’r in notes divine
Praise him with mirth, high cheer and wine.
72. Chorus of Philistines, at a distance
Great Dagon …

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
Händel: The holy one of Israel (from oratorio SAMSON)

69. Air and Chorus
Micah
The Holy One of Israel be thy guide,
The Angel of thy birth stand by thy side!
To fame immortal go,
Heav’n bids thee strike the blow:
The Holy One …

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
Händel: Thus when the sun

67. Air
Samson
Thus when the sun from’s wat’ry bed
All curtain’d with a cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave;
The wand’ring shadows ghastly pale,
All troop to their infemal jail
Each fetter’d ghost slips to his …

Händel: With thunder arm’d

64. Chorus of Israelites
With thunder arm’d, great God, arise!
Help, Lord, or Israel’s champion dies!
To thy protection this thy servant take,
And save, oh, save us for thy servant’s sake!
With thunder arm’d. . . da capo
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
Entrada …

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
Händel: Presuming slave (from oratorio SAMSON)

62. Air – Harapha
Presuming slave, to move their wrath!
For mercy sue,
Or vengeance due
Dooms in one fatal word thy death!
Consider, ere it be too late,
To ward th’unerring shaft of fate.
Entrada principal
Haendel. Oratorio Samson …

Chorus of Israelites and Philistines – 59 – 60 Harry Bicket
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
Händel: To song and dance & Fix’d in his everlasting seat (from SAMSON)

59. Chorus of Philistines
To song and dance we give the day,
Which shows thy universal sway.
Protect …