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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea

Dawn Kotoski (Galatea), David Gordon (Acis), Glenn Siebert (Damon) & Jan Opalach (Polyphemus)

Seattle Symphony Chorale & Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz

Schwarz's 1991 Seattle Acis is disciplined but passe in sound, style and rhythmic gait. It skimps on Handelian delight, though its soloist quartet is decent. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 2 out of 5 stars
  • Release Date: 28th May 2012
  • Catalogue No: 8572745-46
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Seattle Symphony Collection
  • Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Act I

Work length42:59
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  • Dawn Kotoski, David Gordon, Glenn Siebert, Jan Opalach
  • Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle Symphony Orchestra
  • Gerard Schwarz

Sinfonia

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Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus, Acis, Galatea)

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Accompagnato. Ye verdant plains and woody mountains (Galatea)

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Aria. Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea)

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Aria. Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)

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Recitative. Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon)

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Aria. Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon)

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Recitative. Lo! Here my love (Acis)

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Aria. Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis)

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Recitative. Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea)

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Aria. As when the dove laments (Galatea)

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Duet. Happy we! (Acis, Galatea, Chorus)

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Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Act II

Work length58:24
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  • Dawn Kotoski, David Gordon, Glenn Siebert, Jan Opalach
  • Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle Symphony Orchestra
  • Gerard Schwarz

Wretched lovers! Fate has passed (Chorus)

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Accompagnato. I rage, I melt, I burn (Polyphemus)

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Aria. O ruddier Than the cherry (Polyphemus)

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Recitative. Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea)

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Aria. Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)

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Aria. Would you gain the tender creature (Damon)

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Recitative. His hideous love provokes my rage (Acis)

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Aria. Love sounds th'alarm (Acis)

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Aria. Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)

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Recitative. Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)

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Trio. The flocks shall leave the mountains (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)

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Accompagnato. Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods! (Acis)

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Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus)

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Aria. Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus)

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Recitative. 'Tis done: Thus I exert my pow'r divine (Galatea)

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Aria. Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)

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Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)

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