Georg Friedrich Händel: Acis und Galatea (1716) (2 CDs)

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Les Arts Florissants

2 CDs

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Artists:: Daneman, Petibon, Agnew, Les Arts Florissants, Christie
Label:: Erato
Year of recording ca.:: 98
UPC/EAN:: 0639842550529
Release date:: 28.6.1999

Reviews

I. Allihn in FonoForum 12/99: "Les Arts Florissants musizieren in Hochform. Kein Detail geht verloren, plastisch werden die filigranen Feinheiten der Partitur umgesetzt. Die einwandfreie Aufnahmetechnik unter- stützt diese Konzeption."

Tracklisting
Contributors

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

1 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Sinfonia
2 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Chorus "Oh ! the pleasures of the plains"
3 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Recitativo "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" (Galatea)
4 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Air) "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" (Galatea)
5 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Air) "Where shall I seek the charming fair" (Acis)
6 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Recitativo "Stay, shepherd, stay !" (Damon)
7 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Air) "Sheperd, what art thou pursuing" (Damon)
8 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Recitativo "Lo ! here my love" (Acis)
9 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Air) "Love in her eyes sits playing" (Acis)
10 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Recitativo "Oh ! didst thou know the pains" (Galatea)
11 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Air) "As when the dove laments her love" (Galatea)
12 Acis and Galatea : Act I - (Duet) "Happy we !" (Acis, Galatea)
13 Acis and Galatea : Act I - Chorus "Happy we !"

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

1 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Chorus "Wretched lovers"
2 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo accompagnato "I rage, I melt, I burn" (Polyphemus)
3 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air) "O ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus)
4 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo "Whither, fairest, art thou running" (Polyphemus, Galatea)
5 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air) "Cease to beauty to be suing" (Polyphemus)
6 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air) "Would you gain the tender creature" (Coridon)
7 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo "His hideous love provokes my rage" (Acis)
8 Acis and Galatea : Act II - "Love sounds th' alarms" (Acis)
9 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air) "Consider, fond sheperd" (Damon)
10 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" (Galatea)
11 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Trio) "The flocks shall leave the mountains" (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)
12 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo accompagnato "Help, Galatea ! help, ye parent gods" (Acis)
13 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Chorus "Mourn, all ye muses !"
14 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air & Chorus) "Must I my Acis still bemoan" (Galatea)
15 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Recitativo "Tis done; Thus I exert my pow'r divine" (Galatea)
16 Acis and Galatea : Act II - (Air) "Heart, the seat of soft delight" (Galatea)
17 Acis and Galatea : Act II - Chorus "Galatea, dry thy tears"