Handel: Acis and Galatea

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 8, 2016
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Sheehan, Wakim, Williams, Mcstoots, Wilder, Forsythe, Bo
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Sinfonia

      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)

      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)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    4. Act I: Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    5. Act I: Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    6. Act I: Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    7. Act I: Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    8. Act I: Recitative: Lo! here my love (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    9. Act I: Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    10. Act I: Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    11. Act I: Aria: As when the dove (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    12. Act I: Duet: Happy we! (Acis, Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    13. Act II: Wretched lovers (Chorus)

      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)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Douglas Williams

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    15. Act II: Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Douglas Williams

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    16. Act II: Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Douglas Williams, Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    17. Act II: Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    18. Act II: Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Coridon)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Zachary Wilder

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    19. Act II: Recitative: His hideous love (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    20. Act II: Aria: Love sounds th'alarm (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    21. Act II: Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    22. Act II: Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    23. Act II: Trio: The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim, Aaron Sheehan, Douglas Williams

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    24. Act II: Accompagnato: Help, Galatea (Acis)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    25. Act II: Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    26. Act II: Aria: Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    27. Act II: Recitative: 'Tis done (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    28. Act II: Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Teresa Wakim

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    29. Act II: Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Chorus, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    30. Sarei troppo felice

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Amanda Forsythe

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    31. Se al pensier dar mai potro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Amanda Forsythe

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    32. Clori, schernita Clori

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Amanda Forsythe

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    33. Giusto Ciel se non ho sorte

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Amanda Forsythe

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs

    34. Ah! Che un cieco ho per guida

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

      Performer: Amanda Forsythe

      Conductor: Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs


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.