HANDEL

Samson - Oratorio in three parts

 

Thomas Cooley, Sophie Daneman

NDR Choir, Festival Orchestra Göttingen / Nicolas McGegan

 

Thomas Cooley (Samson) and Sophie Daneman (Dalila) lead a first class cast in this new recording of Handel’s sacred oratorio. Nicolas McGegan is the conductor on this recording that continues Carus’s exploration of the oratorio and operatic works of George Frederic Handel.

 

“Nicholas McGegan’s chorus numbers almost 50, large by today’s fashion but transparent and characterful in its role as Israelites and Philistines. The SACD recording retains crystal clarity in the dangerously reverberant acoustic of Dresden’s Frauenkirche.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2009

 

Carus 3SACDs CARUS83425