HANDEL, G.F.: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (excerpts)

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Label: Coro
Release Date: February 1, 2019

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC
PERFORMER

The Sixteen, Christophers

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

February 01, 2019
UPC

828021616921
CATALOG NUMBER

COR16169
LABEL

Coro
NUMBER OF DISCS

2
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

Act I: Sinfonia

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus, Acis, Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains (Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Jeremy Budd

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay - Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Mark Dobell

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Recitative: Lo! here my love - Love in her eyes sits playing

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Jeremy Budd

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Recitative: O didst thou know the pains… - Aria: As when the dove laments her love… (Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act I: Duet: Happy we! (Acis, Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Wretched lovers (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Accompagnato: I rage! (Polyphemus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Damon)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Simon Berridge

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Recitative: His hideous love - Aria: Love sounds th'alarm

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Jeremy Budd

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Mark Dobell

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Trio: The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Accompagnato: Help, Galatea (Acis)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Jeremy Budd

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: Must I my Acis still bemoan - Recitative: 'Tis done

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson

Conductor: Harry Christophers
Act II: Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Ensemble: The Sixteen Orchestra

Performer: Grace Davidson, Jeremy Budd, Mark Dobell, Simon Berridge, Stuart Young

Conductor: Harry Christophers

Famed for it's interpretations of some of Handel's most loved works, The Sixteen marks the start of it's 40th anniversary season by releasing it's first new Handel recording in five years. Handel's pastoral opera is a tale of love, tragedy and liberation. The libretto by John Gay, based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (book XIII), tells of the eternal love between the mortal shepherd Acis and goddess Galatea and how it is doomed by the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. Handel's music beautifully demonstrates the pain and love in such beautiful, dramatic choruses as 'Wretched lovers!' and the grief felt by Galatea in 'Must I my Acis still bemoan'. Staying true to the premiere in 1718, just five singers and nine instrumentalists feature on this intimate recording.