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Handel: Acis and Galatea

Sophie Daneman (Galatea), Paul Agnew (Acis), Alan Ewing (Polyphemus), Francois Piolino (Tenor), David Le Monnier (Baritone), Andrew Sinclair (Tenor), Joseph Cornwell (Coridon) & Patricia Petibon (Damon)

Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

William Christie's charming performance has fine instrumental playing. Paul Agnew's chesty Acis is a bit over-exaggerated, but Sophie Daneman's seductive Galatea and Alan Ewing's villainous Polyphemus... More…

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Handel: Acis and Galatea

Work length1:31:04
$39.00
$51.00
  • Andrew Sinclair (tenor), Patricia Petibon (soprano), Alan Ewing (bass), David Le Monnier (baritone), François Piolino (tenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Joseph Cornwell (tenor)
  • Les Arts Florissants
  • William Christie

Act 1 Sinfonia

Track length3:15
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Act 1 "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!" [Chorus]

Track length4:47
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Act 1 "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Stay, shepherd, stay!" [Damon]

Track length0:19
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Act 1 "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing" [Damon]

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Act 1 "Lo! Here my love" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Love in her eyes sits playing" [Acis]

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Act 1 "Oh! Didst thou know the pains" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "As when the dove laments her love" [Galatea]

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Act 1 "Happy we!" [Acis, Galatea]

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Act 1 "Happy we!" [Chorus]

Track length1:11
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Act 2 "Wretched lovers!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "I rage, I melt, I burn" [Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "O ruddier than the cherry" [Polyphemus]

Track length3:02
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Act 2 "Whither, fairest, art thou running" [Polyphemus, Galatea]

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Act 2 "Cease to beauty to be suing" [Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "Would you gain the tender creature" [Damon]

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Act 2 "His hideous love provokes my rage" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Love sounds th'alarm" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Consider, fond shepherd" [Coridon]

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Act 2 "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" [Galatea]

Track length0:24
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Act 2 "The flocks shall leave the mountains" [Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus]

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Act 2 "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods" [Acis]

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Act 2 "Mourn, all ye muses!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Must I my Acis still bemoan" [Galatea, Chorus]

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Act 2 "'Tis done - thus I exert pow'r divine" [Galatea]

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Act 2 "Heart, the seat of soft delight" [Galatea]

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Act 2 "Galatea, dry thy tears" [Chorus]

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