Handel / Daneman / Les Arts Florissants / Christie: Acis & Galatea
Handel / Daneman / Les Arts Florissants / Christie: Acis & Galatea
Format: CD
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Artist: Handel / Daneman / Les Arts Florissants / Christie
Label: Erato
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 825646598878
Genre: Classical
The innovative Baroque style that served as the primary livelihood in establishing Les Arts Florissants' impeccable reputation is portrayed again in this release of Handel's Acis and Galatea. Conducted by the ensemble's founder, William Christie, Gramophone notes that his new version is "a polished and strongly characterized performance, finely recorded", being the first recording anyone should try.
Tracks:
1.1 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 Sinfonia
1.2 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Oh, the Pleasure of the Plains!" [Chorus]
1.3 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Ye Verdant Plains and Woody Mountains" [Galatea]
1.4 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire" [Galatea]
1.5 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Where Shall I Seek the Charming Fair?" [Acis]
1.6 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Stay, Shepherd, Stay!" [Damon]
1.7 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing" [Damon]
1.8 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Lo! Here My Love" [Acis]
1.9 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing" [Acis]
1.10 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Oh! Didst Thou Know the Pains" [Galatea]
1.11 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "As When the Dove Laments Her Love" [Galatea]
1.12 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Happy We!" [Acis, Galatea]
1.13 Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Happy We!" [Chorus]
2.1 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Wretched Lovers!" [Chorus]
2.2 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "I Rage, I Melt, I Burn" [Polyphemus]
2.3 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "O Ruddier Than the Cherry" [Polyphemus]
2.4 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running" [Polyphemus, Galatea]
2.5 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Cease to Beauty to Be Suing" [Polyphemus]
2.6 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Would You Gain the Tender Creature" [Damon]
2.7 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "His Hideous Love Provokes My Rage" [Acis]
2.8 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Love Sounds Th'alarm" [Acis]
2.9 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Consider, Fond Shepherd" [Coridon]
2.10 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth" [Galatea]
2.11 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "The Flocks Shall Leave the Mountains" [Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus]
2.12 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Help, Galatea! Help, Ye Parent Gods" [Acis]
2.13 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Mourn, All Ye Muses!" [Chorus]
2.14 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Must I My Acis Still Bemoan" [Galatea, Chorus]
2.15 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "'Tis Done - Thus I Exert Pow'r Divine" [Galatea]
2.16 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Heart, the Seat of Soft Delight" [Galatea]
2.17 Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Galatea, Dry Thy Tears" [Chorus]
