Acis and Galatea

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

Acis and Galatea is a pastoral masque by George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1718. The music blends English-texted choruses, solo arias and accompanied recitative with bright string writing and pastoral harmonies, and it comes from Handel's early London period when he composed both Italian opera and music for the English stage.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Sinfonia (Presto)
    3:26
  2. 2.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Chorus: Oh, The Pleasure Of The Plains
    5:57
  3. 3.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Accompagnato (Galatea): Ye Verdant Plains
    0:56
  4. 4.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Galatea): Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire
    6:17
  5. 5.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Acis): Where Shall I Seek the Charming Fair
    3:22
  6. 6.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Damon): Stay, Shepherd, Stay
    0:27
  7. 7.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Damon): Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing
    4:27
  8. 8.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitativ (Acis): Lo! Here My Love
    0:34
  9. 9.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Acis): Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing
    6:53
  10. 10.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Galatea): Oh! Didst Thou Know The Pains Of Absent Love
    0:20
  11. 11.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Galatea): As When The Dove
    6:33
  12. 12.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Duet (Galatea, Acis): Happy We)
    2:32

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Chorus: Wretched Lovers
    5:03
  2. 3.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Accompagnato (Polyphemus): I Rage
    1:27
  3. 4.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Polyphemus): O Ruddier Than The Cherry
    3:09
  4. 5.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Polyphemus, Galatea): Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running
    1:07
  5. 6.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Polyphemus): Cease To Beauty To Be Suing
    5:39
  6. 7.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Damon): Would You Gain The Tender Creature
    5:44
  7. 8.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Acis): His Hiddeous Love
    0:28
  8. 9.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Acis): Love Sounds Th'alarm
    5:26
  9. 10.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Damon): Consider, Fond Shepherd
    6:35
  10. 11.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Galatea): Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth
    0:30
  11. 12.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Trio (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus): The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains
    2:31
  12. 13.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Accompagnato (Acis): Help, Galatea
    1:05
  13. 14.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Chorus: Mourn, All Ye Muses
    3:16
  14. 15.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Galatea, Chorus: Must I My Acis Still Bemoan
    3:55
  15. 16.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Recitative (Galatea): 'Tis Done
    0:24
  16. 17.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Air (Galatea): Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight
    4:10
  17. 18.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, First Version: Chorus: Galatea, Dry Thy Tears
    3:10

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