Cracow 2018, concert n°2 : SAMSON

Concert recorded during the « Misteria Paschalia » festival at the ICE Krakow Congress Center in Cracow, poland (April 1st 2018)

Conductor: John Butt
Ensemble Dunedin Consort
The Polish Radio Choir

James Way Samson
Eleanor Dennis Dalila
Fflur Wyn Vierge - Israëlite
Charlotte Ashley Vierge – Philistine
Caitlin Hulcup Micah
Hugo Hymas Israëlite
Matthew Brook Manoah
Vitali Rozynko Harapha

Programme :
HANDEL : Samson
Handel’s oratorio Samson tells of the last days of the great Israelite warrior, in a dramatic story of his journey from darkness to heavenly light. Opening with Samson in chains, having lost his strength and been blinded by the Philistines, it closes with one of Handel’s most famous arias, ‘Let the bright Seraphim in burning row / their loud, uplifted angel-trumpets blow’. Composed within a few weeks of Handel’s Messiah and based on a text by John Milton, it became one of Handel’s most successful and popular oratorios.