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Handel - Samson
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Special offer. Handel: Samson
RecommendedJoshua Ellicott (tenor), Sophie Bevan(soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Vitali Rozynko (bass-baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt has created the best Samson ever...These choral forces make for a vibrancy unique among Samson recordings…Butt’s deep grasp of both Handel’s rhetoric and of large-scale structure turns... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Sir Thomas Beecham: Complete Stereo Recordings On Warner Classics
Sir Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jussi Bjoerling (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Beecham Choral Society
The early stereo recordings still sound good and that some of them are seventy years old is hard to believe. Warner's box design is a tad gloomy though, Beecham resembling Brando’s Don Corleone... — More…
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Handel: Samson
Jon Vickers (Samson), Joan Carlyle (Dalila), Joan Sutherland (Israelite Woman), James Pease (Harapha), Lauris Elms (Micah), Joseph Rouleau (Manoah)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Raymond Leppard
It seems incredible that a singer of Heldentenor quality like Vickers could sing so stylishly in Handel, with elaborate divisions perfectly executed. Not only that, his portrayal of Samson is... — More…
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Handel: Samson
Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Kim Borg (bass), Marga Höffgen (alto), Maria Stader (soprano), Maria Reith (soprano), Heinz Rehfuss (bass), RIAS Kammerchor (chorus), Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale (chorus)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay
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Matthew Newlin, Julie Roset, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Luigi Di Donato, Klara Ek, Maxime Melnik, Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón
This live recording captures a panoply of moods and colours abetted by theatrical vitality and predominantly brisk pacing...the Millenium Orchestra’s broad textural palette is matched by the... — More…
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Handel: Samson
Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George, Jonathan Best
The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers
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Handel: Samson
Thomas Cooley (Samson) & Sophie Daneman (Dalila)
NDR Choir & Festival Orchestra Göttingen, Nicolas McGegan
…Thomas Cooley makes a tragic Samson, from his first soliloquy on his mental anguish, through a heart-rending 'Total eclipse' to his humility and returning strength in Act III. Sophie Daneman... — More…
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Handel Edition Volume 4 - Messiah and Samson
Felicity Palmer (soprano), Helen Watts (alto), Ryland Davies (tenor) & John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Janet Baker (Delilah), Helen Watts (Micah), Robert Tear (Samson), John Shirley-Quirk (Manoah) & Benjamin Luxon (Harapha), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Jennifer Larmore (mezzo)
English Chamber...
[on The Messiah] Tempos are lively, though never breathless, and always well judged, and ornamentation is judicious. Choruses are resilient and have an agreeable sense of joy, especially ''For... — More…
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Special offer. Handel: Samson
Ernst Haefliger (Samson), Maria Stader (Dalila), Marga Höffgen (Micah), Kim Borg (Manoah), Hainz Rehfuss (Harapha), Maria Reith (Philistine Woman), RIAS Kammerchor, Chor der St. Hadwigs-Kathedrale, RIAS Symphonie Orchester, Ferenc Fricsay
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Special offer. The Handel Collection
Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George & Jonathan Best, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Tom Randle, Matthew Vine, Simon Berridge, Michael George, Robert Evans & Simon Birchall, Ian Partridge & Michael George, Ann Murray, Elin Manahan...
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