Samson

Dunedin Consort & John Butt - Handel: Samson (Full Chorus Version) (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at Nov. 15, 2020

Dunedin Consort & John Butt - Handel: Samson (Full Chorus Version) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 03:23:31 | 7.21 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover+digital booklet

Dunedin Consort continues to apply its pioneering approach to recordings by releasing two alternative performing versions of one of Handel’s greatest dramatic works, Samson. This is the Full Chorus Version.

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Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Chorus - Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Maurice Abravanel (2024) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 23, 2024

Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony Chorus - Handel: Samson, HWV 57 by Maurice Abravanel (2024 Remastered, Utah 1963) (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:34:30 | 869 / 356 Mb
Genre: Classical

Maurice Abravanel The state of Utah became a flourishing classical music scene thanks to the efforts of Maurice Abravanel, who served as music director of the Utah Symphony for 32 years starting in 1947. Although his peers might have looked at a posting in Utah as death in the boondocks, to Abravanel it was an opportunity to accomplish his dream of building up a permanent symphony orchestra of his own in a part of the world that was sorely lacking such a resource. Doing this meant turning down a lucrative contract with Radio City Music Hall, and even working without pay during the orchestra's most extreme periods of financial struggle.

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Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Matthew Newlin, Klara Ek - Handel: Samson (2020) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 14, 2020

Millenium Orchestra, Leonardo García Alarcón, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Matthew Newlin, Klara Ek - Handel: Samson (2020)
FLAC tracks | 02:28:13 | 745 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Ricercar

Samson is not merely an effective narrative, but also a drama of great psychological depth. Over its three acts, we witness the slow but inexorable mental resurrection of a man chosen by God who, overcome by remorse, gradually rebuilds his character. Awareness of his error sustains him and helps him to conceive a decisive reversal of his situation. Though held in chains and for ever deprived of his sight, Samson nevertheless gradually becomes convinced that his strength is intact. In order to set Israel free, he will succeed in regaining God’s mercy and destroying his captors’ people at a single blow. This recording was made live during the Namur Music Festival in July 2018.

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Samson Francois & André Cluytens - Ravel: Complete Piano & Orchestral Works (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 29, 2018

Samson Francois & André Cluytens - Ravel: Complete Piano & Orchestral Works (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1,88 Gb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 944 Mb | 06:52:24
Classical | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

Two titans of the French repertoire, André Cluytens and Samson François, take the listener deep into the spellbinding world of Maurice Ravel. The dualities inherent in the composer’s exquisitely crafted music – and the contrasting, yet complementary characters of the masterly conductor and maverick pianist – are exemplified in their interpretations of the two piano concertos: the Concerto in G, charming, sparkling and gently melancholy, and the Concerto for the Left Hand, angular and defiant, with moments of both brutality and heroism.

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Samson Tsoy - Inmost Heart. Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 11, 2025

Samson Tsoy - Inmost Heart. Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:16:21 minutes | 1.14 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

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Samson Tsoy - Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni & Reger (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 11, 2025

In Samson Tsoy’s artfully designed solo debut recording, ideas reverberate across the centuries as Brahms’s elaborations of works by two past masters are juxtaposed with reworkings of his own music by two later composers. Lauded for his originality and ‘inexhaustible imagination’, the young pianist and celebrated duo partner of Pavel Kolesnikov is fascinated by the intimate and poignant role of an interpreter. Questioning the subtle difference between interpretation and creation, Tsoy weaves together this complex tapestry of versions, variants and variations. Forming the core of this gripping recital, Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op. 24, is a series of carefully crafted miniatures. Bach’s Chaconne, brilliantly arranged for the left hand by Brahms, is another instance of a genius humbly sourcing inspiration while interpreting the masterwork of his predecessor. The rest of the recital points to Brahms’s successors Busoni and Reger, who arranged six of Brahms’s Chorale Preludes, Op. 122, and Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op. 121, respectively.

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Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra, London Voices - George Frideric Handel: Samson (1993) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 10, 2022

This is a great example of the "old school" of English oratorio performance. Actually, it's not that "old" because although it uses modern instruments, Raymond Leppard is as fully informed about Baroque performance practice as any period instrument guy. Beyond that, he has a stunning line-up of soloists, lead by Dame Janet Baker, who sing their roles with appropriately operatic fervor.

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Samson and Delilah (1949) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at Oct. 13, 2013

Samson and Delilah (1949)
Samson et Dalila - Sansone e Dalila - Sansón y Dalila - Samson und Delilah - Sansão e Dalila
A Film by Cecil B. DeMille
BluRay Full 1:1 | m2ts | MPEG-4 AVC | 1920x1080 | 35990 Kbps | 16:9 | 02:13:49 | 5% Recovery | 42.4 GB
Audio: English Dolby TrueHD 800 kbps 2.0; German, Spanish, French, Italian, Porguese Dolby Digital Audio 224 Kbps 2.0
Subtitle: English, Chinese, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, French, Japanese, Korean
Italian, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Slovak, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Historical | Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 nominations

Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved…

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Raymond Leppard, The Covent Garden Orchestra and Opera Chorus - George Frideric Handel: Samson (2010) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Nov. 23, 2023

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 deeply moving, thanks to vocal acting over as wide tonal and dynamic range.

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George Frideric Händel - Samson (1993) Music

Posted by frangarbla at May 28, 2010

George Frideric Händel - Samson
DbPowerAmp secure mode FLAC (tracks+log, no cue) + MP3 (320 kbps CBR) | 651.61 Mb (FLAC) + 366.45 Mb (MP3) | 147:44 minutes | Full info & covers.
classical, baroque, sacred | TELDEC Records, Recorded at the Musikverein, Vienna, May 1992. Cd published in 1993

Samson (HWV 57) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. It was based on a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton, who based it on Milton's Samson Agonistes, which in turn was based on the figure Samson in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges. Samson is considered one of Handel's finest dramatic works. The premiere was given in London on 18 February 1743...

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