22. Stubbs, Stephen "5. Hornpipe" Samson HWV 57 (Oratorium) (Auszug)
23. Sheehan, Aaron "Arie: Torments, alas, are not confin'd"
24. Sheehan, Aaron "Arie: Total eclipse!"
25. Sheehan, Aaron "Rezitativ: My griefs for this"
26. Sheehan, Aaron "Arie: Why does the God of Israel sleep?"
27. Sheehan, Aaron "Arie: Your charms to ruin led the way"
28. Sheehan, Aaron "Rezitativ: Let but that spirit"
29. Sheehan, Aaron "Arie: Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed"
Number of discs:
1
Description:
John Beard was a young tenor who came to George Frideric Handel's attention when still a teenager. He inspired the great composer to give new focus to the tenor voice within his English oratorios. Beard was Handel's ideal in his demands for 'articulate utterance of the words and a just expression of the melody'- a collaboration that climaxed in Handel's creation of the first truly great tenor part as the hero in Samson. Grammy Award-winning tenor Aaron Sheehan steps into John Beard's shoes equipped with a voice of 'shining quality and deep sensitivity' (The New York Times).