Acis and Galatea

Album by George Frideric Handel & Norma Burrowes & Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Martyn Hill & Willard White & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Acis and Galatea is a pastoral masque composed by Georg Friedrich Händel in 1718. The work employs Baroque vocal and instrumental forces with pastoral motifs and choruses alongside solo arias, placing it within Handel's early English-stage output and reflecting his chamber and theatrical practices during the Cannons period.
OperaBaroqueOratorioClassical

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Acis and Galatea: Sinfonia
    3:26
  2. 2.
    Acis and Galatea: "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
    5:55
  3. 3.
    Acis and Galatea: "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains"
    0:57
  4. 4.
    Acis and Galatea: "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!"
    6:20
  5. 5.
    Acis and Galatea: "Where shall I seek the charming fair?"
    3:23
  6. 6.
    Acis and Galatea: "Stay, shepherd, stay!"
    0:26
  7. 7.
    Acis and Galatea: "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?"
    4:29
  8. 8.
    Acis and Galatea: "Lo! here my love!"
    0:31
  9. 9.
    Acis and Galatea: "Love in her eyes sits playing"
    6:53
  10. 10.
    Acis and Galatea: "Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love"
    0:21
  11. 11.
    Acis and Galatea: "As when the dove"
    6:33
  12. 12.
    Acis and Galatea: "Happy we!"
    2:33

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Acis and Galatea: "Wretched lovers! Fate has past!"
    5:05
  2. 3.
    Acis and Galatea: "I rage - I melt - I burn!"
    1:24
  3. 4.
    Acis and Galatea: "O ruddier than the cherry"
    3:08
  4. 5.
    Acis and Galatea: "Whither, fairest, art thou running"
    1:06
  5. 6.
    Acis and Galatea: "Cease to beauty to be suing"
    5:40
  6. 7.
    Acis and Galatea: "Would you gain the tender creature"
    5:42
  7. 8.
    Acis and Galatea: "His hideous love provokes my rage"
    0:27
  8. 9.
    Acis and Galatea: "Love sounds th'alarm"
    5:27
  9. 10.
    Acis and Galatea: "Consider, fond shepherd"
    6:34
  10. 11.
    Acis and Galatea: "Cease, O cease, thou gentle youth"
    0:31
  11. 12.
    Acis and Galatea: "The flocks shall leave the mountains"
    2:31
  12. 13.
    Acis and Galatea: "Help, Galatea! help, ye parent gods!"
    1:05
  13. 14.
    Acis and Galatea: "Mourn, all ye muses! weep, all ye swains!"
    3:17
  14. 15.
    Acis and Galatea: "Must I my Acis still bemoan"
    3:55
  15. 16.
    Acis and Galatea: "Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine"
    0:25
  16. 17.
    Acis and Galatea: "Heart, the seat of soft delight"
    4:09
  17. 18.
    Acis and Galatea: "Galatea, dry thy tears"
    3:12

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