Mark Padmore: Samson – Handel – 67 Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed

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 sev’ral grave.

Entrada principal

Haendel. Oratorio Samson HWV 57