George Frideric Handel Acis & Galatea
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CD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Released: June 26, 2012
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Naxos
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Sinfonia
- 2.Oh, the Pleasures of the Plain
- 3.Ye Verdant Plains and Woody Mountains
- 4.Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire
- 5.Where Shall I Seek the Charming Fair?
- 6.Stay, Shepherd, Stay
- 7.Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing?
- 8.Lo! Here My Love
- 9.Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing
- 10.Oh! Didst Thou Know the Pains of Absent Love
- 11.As When the Dove Laments Her Love
- 12.Happy We!
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Wretched Lovers! Fate Has Passed
- 2.I Rage, I Melt, I Burn
- 3.O Ruddier Than the Cherry
- 4.Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running
- 5.Cease to Beauty to Be Suing
- 6.Would You Gain the Tender Creature
- 7.His Hideous Love Provokes My Rage
- 8.Love Sounds Th'alarm
- 9.Consider, Fond Shepherd
- 10.Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth
- 11.The Flocks Shall Leave the Mountains
- 12.Help, Galatea! Help, Ye Parent Gods!
- 13.Mourn, All Ye Muses
- 14.Must I My Acis Still Bemoan
- 15.'Tis Done: Thus I Exert My Pow'r Divine
- 16.Heart, the Seat of Soft Delight
- 17.Galatea, Dry Thy Tears
Product Description:
Acis and Galatea, variously described as a pastoral, a 'little opera' and a masque, is one of Handel's most popular works. It is a delectable succession of pastoral airs, love-lorn lyrics, and sprightly or mourning choruses, spiced by the pungent and unforgettable interjection of the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, who destroys the idyll of the shepherd Acis and the nymph Galatea. Handel had first turned to the subject in a cantata written in Naples in 1708. His English work, formally a masque, went through several stages until this two-act version of 1739, written principally by John Gay and graced by Handel's exquisite music.
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