Acis & Galatea

Album by George Frideric Handel & Susan Hamilton & Nicholas Mulroy & Thomas Hobbs & Nicholas Hurndall Smith & Matthew Brook & Dunedin Consort & John Butt

First released: 16th October 2008

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Sinfonia
    3:12
  2. 2.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Chorus "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
    6:13
  3. 3.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Accompagnato "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains"
    0:45
  4. 4.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Air "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!"
    6:17
  5. 5.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Air "Where shall I seek the charming fair?"
    3:05
  6. 6.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Recitative "Stay, shepherd, stay!"
    0:22
  7. 7.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Air "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?"
    4:10
  8. 8.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Recitative "Lo, here my love"
    0:30
  9. 9.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Air "Love in her eyes sits playing"
    6:50
  10. 10.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Recitative "Oh, didst thou know the pains of absent love"
    0:16
  11. 11.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Air "As when the dove laments her love"
    6:57
  12. 12.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act I. Duet "Happy we!"
    2:35
  13. 13.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Chorus "Wretched lovers!"
    4:25
  14. 14.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Accompagnato: I rage — I melt — I burn!
    1:27
  15. 15.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air: O ruddier than the cherry
    3:16
  16. 16.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running
    1:11
  17. 17.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air "Cease to beauty to be suing"
    5:24
  18. 18.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air "Would you gain the tender creature"
    5:42
  19. 19.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Recitative "His hideous love provokes my rage"
    0:21
  20. 20.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air "Love sounds th'alarm"
    4:50
  21. 21.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air "Consider, fond shepherd"
    6:41
  22. 22.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Recitative "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth"
    0:25
  23. 23.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Trio "The flocks shall leave the mountains"
    3:03
  24. 24.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Accompagnato "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!"
    1:30
  25. 25.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Chorus "Mourn, all ye muses!"
    3:43
  26. 26.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Solo & Chorus "Must I my Acis still bemoan"
    4:14
  27. 27.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Recitative "'Tis done! Thus I exert my pow'r divine"
    0:18
  28. 28.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Air "Heart, the seat of soft delight"
    4:02
  29. 29.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act II. Chorus "Galatea, dry thy tears"
    3:18

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