Acis and Galatea

Album by George Frideric Handel & Dawn Kotoski & David Gordon & Glenn Siebert & Jan Opalach & Seattle Symphony Chorale & Seattle Symphony & Gerard Schwarz

Acis and Galatea is a pastoral masque by George Frideric Handel, first composed and performed in 1718. Written in the English Baroque vocal tradition, it blends solo arias, choruses and continuo-accompanied recitatives with pastoral instrumentation and textures, and it marks an early instance of Handel's shift from Italianate opera towards his English vocal works.
First released: 1991

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    ACT 2. Chorus: Wretched lovers!
    6:06
  2. 2.
    ACIS AND GALATEA, HWV 49 - ACT 1. Sinfonia
    3:40
  3. 3.
    Accompagnato (Polyphemus): I rage, I melt, I burn
    1:19
  4. 4.
    Chorus: Oh, the pleasure of the plains
    5:40
  5. 5.
    Air (Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry
    3:27
  6. 6.
    Accompagnato (Galatea): Ye verdant plains
    0:49
  7. 7.
    Recitative (Polyphemus, Galatea): Whither, fairest, art thou running?
    1:22
  8. 8.
    Air (Galatea): Hush, ye pretty warbling quire
    6:56
  9. 9.
    Air (Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing
    5:36
  10. 10.
    Air (Acis): Where shall I seek the charming fair
    3:01
  11. 11.
    Recitative (Damon): Stay, shepherd, stay
    0:24
  12. 12.
    Air (Damon): Would you gain the tender creature
    5:31
  13. 13.
    Air (Damon): Shepherd, what art thou pursuing
    4:54
  14. 14.
    Recitative (Acis): His hideous love provokes my rage
    0:29
  15. 15.
    Recitative (Acis): Lo! here my love
    0:28
  16. 16.
    Air (Acis): Love sounds th'alarm
    5:20
  17. 17.
    Air (Damon): Consider, fond shepherd
    5:22
  18. 18.
    Air (Acis): Love in her eyes sits playing
    7:01
  19. 19.
    Recitative (Galatea): Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love
    0:17
  20. 20.
    Recitative (Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth
    0:26
  21. 21.
    Air (Galatea): As when the dove laments
    6:19
  22. 22.
    Trio (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountains - Torture, fury, rage, despair
    3:00
  23. 23.
    Duet (Acis and Galatea) & Chorus: Happy we!
    3:35
  24. 24.
    Accompagnato (Acis): Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!
    1:11
  25. 25.
    Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses
    5:54
  26. 26.
    Solo (Galatea) & Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan? - Cease, Galatea, cease to grieve
    6:37
  27. 27.
    Recitative (Galatea): 'Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine
    0:19
  28. 28.
    Air (Galatea): Heart, the seat of soft delight
    3:50
  29. 29.
    Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears
    2:38