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.
Haendel. Oratorio Samson HWV 57