CPO
Handel: Acis and Galatea
$18.49
Details
- Composer
- HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC
- Artist
- Sheehan, Wakim, Williams, Mcstoots, Wilder, Forsythe, Bo
- Format
- CD
- Label
- CPO
- Released
- Jan 08, 2016
- Catalog #
- 777877-2
- UPC
- 761203787722
About
CPO's previous release with the soloists and ensembles of the Boston Early Music Festival was awarded two prestigious prizes. The recording of Charpentier’s opera La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs received the Grammy Award for the Best Opera Production in February 2015 and recently won the Klassik-Echo 2015, again for the Best Opera Recording of the Year. Prior to this double success, other productions by cpo and BEMF had been nominated for Gramophone Awards. In the category of the Best Opera Production these were Ariadne by Johann Georg Conradi and Thésée and Psyché by Jean-Baptiste Lully. In addition, Thésée and Psyché received nominations in the category honoring Baroque Vocal Works.
Now the American ensemble joins forces with successful soloists like Aaron Sheehan and Teresa Wakim for our production of Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea in the version of 1718, which was composed for the landed estate of the Earl of Carnarvon and does not recycle music from the earlier version. Both Acis and Galatea and the cantata Sarei troppo felice heard here represent decisive turning points in Handel’s career. The Italian cantata came at the beginning of the one and half decades spent by Handel in the service of patrons. Acis and Galatea marks the highpoint of this phase and therefore, like the cantata before it, clearly renders recognizable the musical means available to him in the private ensembles of his employers. Moreover, Acis and Galatea contains the musical and textual seeds of the English oratorio, which after 1742 completely supplanted opera compositions.
Now the American ensemble joins forces with successful soloists like Aaron Sheehan and Teresa Wakim for our production of Handel’s opera Acis and Galatea in the version of 1718, which was composed for the landed estate of the Earl of Carnarvon and does not recycle music from the earlier version. Both Acis and Galatea and the cantata Sarei troppo felice heard here represent decisive turning points in Handel’s career. The Italian cantata came at the beginning of the one and half decades spent by Handel in the service of patrons. Acis and Galatea marks the highpoint of this phase and therefore, like the cantata before it, clearly renders recognizable the musical means available to him in the private ensembles of his employers. Moreover, Acis and Galatea contains the musical and textual seeds of the English oratorio, which after 1742 completely supplanted opera compositions.
Tracklist 34 tracks
- Disc 1
-
1 Act I: Sinfonia 03:17
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Act I: Sinfonia
- Duration
- 03:17
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
2 Act I: Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus) 05:32
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Act I: Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus)
- Duration
- 05:32
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
3 Act I: Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains (Galatea) 00:43
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Act I: Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains (Galatea)
- Duration
- 00:43
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
4 Act I: Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea) 06:45
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Act I: Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea)
- Duration
- 06:45
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
5 Act I: Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis) 03:27
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Act I: Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)
- Duration
- 03:27
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
6 Act I: Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon) 00:23
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Act I: Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon)
- Duration
- 00:23
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Jason McStoots
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
7 Act I: Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon) 04:30
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Act I: Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon)
- Duration
- 04:30
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Jason McStoots
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
8 Act I: Recitative: Lo! here my love (Acis) 00:24
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Act I: Recitative: Lo! here my love (Acis)
- Duration
- 00:24
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
9 Act I: Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis) 06:27
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Act I: Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis)
- Duration
- 06:27
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
10 Act I: Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea) 00:14
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Act I: Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea)
- Duration
- 00:14
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
11 Act I: Aria: As when the dove (Galatea) 06:52
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Act I: Aria: As when the dove (Galatea)
- Duration
- 06:52
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
12 Act I: Duet: Happy we! (Acis, Galatea) 02:54
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Act I: Duet: Happy we! (Acis, Galatea)
- Duration
- 02:54
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
13 Act II: Wretched lovers (Chorus) 03:54
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Act II: Wretched lovers (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:54
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
14 Act II: Accompagnato: I rage! (Polyphemus) 01:24
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Act II: Accompagnato: I rage! (Polyphemus)
- Duration
- 01:24
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Douglas Williams
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
15 Act II: Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus) 03:26
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Act II: Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)
- Duration
- 03:26
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Douglas Williams
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
16 Act II: Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea) 01:08
- Track
- 16
- Title
- Act II: Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea)
- Duration
- 01:08
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Douglas Williams, Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
17 Act II: Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus) 05:34
- Track
- 17
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)
- Duration
- 05:34
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
- Disc 2
-
1 Act II: Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Coridon) 06:27
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Coridon)
- Duration
- 06:27
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Zachary Wilder
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
2 Act II: Recitative: His hideous love (Acis) 00:23
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Act II: Recitative: His hideous love (Acis)
- Duration
- 00:23
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
3 Act II: Aria: Love sounds th'alarm (Acis) 04:42
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Love sounds th'alarm (Acis)
- Duration
- 04:42
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
4 Act II: Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon) 07:27
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)
- Duration
- 07:27
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Jason McStoots
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
5 Act II: Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea) 00:26
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Act II: Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)
- Duration
- 00:26
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
6 Act II: Trio: The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus) 02:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Act II: Trio: The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)
- Duration
- 02:28
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim, Aaron Sheehan, Douglas Williams
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
7 Act II: Accompagnato: Help, Galatea (Acis) 01:04
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Act II: Accompagnato: Help, Galatea (Acis)
- Duration
- 01:04
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Aaron Sheehan
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
8 Act II: Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus) 03:44
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Act II: Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:44
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
9 Act II: Aria: Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus) 04:32
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus)
- Duration
- 04:32
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
10 Act II: Recitative: 'Tis done (Galatea) 00:21
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Act II: Recitative: 'Tis done (Galatea)
- Duration
- 00:21
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
11 Act II: Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea) 04:36
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Act II: Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)
- Duration
- 04:36
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Teresa Wakim
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
12 Act II: Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus) 03:27
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Act II: Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:27
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
13 Sarei troppo felice 01:51
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Sarei troppo felice
- Duration
- 01:51
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Amanda Forsythe
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
14 Se al pensier dar mai potro 04:22
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Se al pensier dar mai potro
- Duration
- 04:22
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Amanda Forsythe
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
15 Clori, schernita Clori 00:55
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Clori, schernita Clori
- Duration
- 00:55
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Amanda Forsythe
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
16 Giusto Ciel se non ho sorte 02:31
- Track
- 16
- Title
- Giusto Ciel se non ho sorte
- Duration
- 02:31
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Amanda Forsythe
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs
-
17 Ah! Che un cieco ho per guida 00:39
- Track
- 17
- Title
- Ah! Che un cieco ho per guida
- Duration
- 00:39
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Performer
- Amanda Forsythe
- Ensemble
- Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
- Conductor
- Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs