Product Overview
Handel: Acis & Galatea - LeBlanc, Bleeke, Molomot, Watson, Les Boréades, Eric Milnes / Atma Baroque / Atma Classique 2x Audio CD / ACD 2 2302
UPC 722056230223
Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay. The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio. The work was originally devised as a one-act masque which premiered in 1718.
| Label: | Atma Classique – ACD 2 2302 |
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| Series: | Atma Baroque |
| Format: |
2 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Canada |
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| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Baroque, Oratorio |
Tracklist:
| Acis and Galatea, Oratorio, HWV 49 | |||
| Act 1 | |||
| 1-1 | Sinfonia | ||
| 1-2 | Oh, The Pleasures Of The Plain | ||
| 1-3 | Ye Verdant Plains | ||
| 1-4 | Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire | ||
| 1-5 | Where Shall I Seek The Charming Fair | ||
| 1-6 | Stay, Shepherd, Stay | ||
| 1-7 | Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing | ||
| 1-8 | Lo! Here My Love | ||
| 1-9 | Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing | ||
| 1-10 | Oh! Didst Thou Know The Pains Of Absent Love | ||
| 1-11 | As When The Dove | ||
| 1-12 | Happy We! | ||
| 1-13 | Happy We! | ||
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Act 2 |
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| 2-1 | Wretched Lovers | ||
| 2-2 | I Rage! | ||
| 2-3 | O Ruddier Than The Cherry | ||
| 2-4 | Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running | ||
| 2-5 | Cease To Beauty To Be Suing | ||
| 2-6 | Would You Gain The Tender Creature | ||
| 2-7 | His Hideous Love | ||
| 2-8 | Love Sounds Th'alarm | ||
| 2-9 | Consider, Fond Shepherd | ||
| 2-10 | Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth | ||
| 2-11 | The Flocks Shall Leave | ||
| 2-12 | Help, Galatea | ||
| 2-13 | Mourn, All Ye Muses | ||
| 2-14 | Must I My Acis Still Bemoan | ||
| 2-15 | Tis Done | ||
| 2-16 | Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight | ||
| 2-17 | Galatea, Dry Thy Tears |
- Baritone Vocals – Nathaniel Watson
- Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
- Conductor, Harpsichord – Eric Milnes
- Engineer, Producer, Mastered By – Johanne Goyette
- Liner Notes – Francois Filiatrault
- Recorder – Francis Colpron
- Soprano Vocals – Suzie LeBlanc
- Tenor Vocals – Marc Molomot, Mark Bleeke
- Viola da Gamba – Susie Napper
- Violin – Helène Plouffe
