Christopher Purves – 62. Air – Harapha – Samson – Handel

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 HWV 57