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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

Handel: Acis and Galatea

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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...

BBC Music Magazine, October 2009

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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

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Awards:

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...

BBC Music Magazine, October 2009

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  • Release date: 2nd Jul 2012
  • Label: Erato
  • Catalogue number: 2564659887
  • Length: 91 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Handel: Acis and Galatea
Work length1:31:04
Act 1 Sinfonia
Track length3:15
Act 1 "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!" [Chorus]
Track length4:47
Act 1 "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" [Galatea]
Track length0:42
Act 1 "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" [Galatea]
Track length6:29
Act 1 "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" [Acis]
Track length3:02
Act 1 "Stay, shepherd, stay!" [Damon]
Track length0:19
Act 1 "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing" [Damon]
Track length3:58
Act 1 "Lo! Here my love" [Acis]
Track length0:24
Act 1 "Love in her eyes sits playing" [Acis]
Track length6:11
Act 1 "Oh! Didst thou know the pains" [Galatea]
Track length0:13
Act 1 "As when the dove laments her love" [Galatea]
Track length6:08
Act 1 "Happy we!" [Acis, Galatea]
Track length2:40
Act 1 "Happy we!" [Chorus]
Track length1:11
Act 2 "Wretched lovers!" [Chorus]
Track length4:21
Act 2 "I rage, I melt, I burn" [Polyphemus]
Track length1:14
Act 2 "O ruddier than the cherry" [Polyphemus]
Track length3:02
Act 2 "Whither, fairest, art thou running" [Polyphemus, Galatea]
Track length0:55
Act 2 "Cease to beauty to be suing" [Polyphemus]
Track length4:26
Act 2 "Would you gain the tender creature" [Damon]
Track length5:39
Act 2 "His hideous love provokes my rage" [Acis]
Track length0:21
Act 2 "Love sounds th'alarm" [Acis]
Track length4:32
Act 2 "Consider, fond shepherd" [Coridon]
Track length6:33
Act 2 "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" [Galatea]
Track length0:24
Act 2 "The flocks shall leave the mountains" [Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus]
Track length2:14
Act 2 "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods" [Acis]
Track length1:14
Act 2 "Mourn, all ye muses!" [Chorus]
Track length3:42
Act 2 "Must I my Acis still bemoan" [Galatea, Chorus]
Track length6:05
Act 2 "'Tis done - thus I exert pow'r divine" [Galatea]
Track length0:26
Act 2 "Heart, the seat of soft delight" [Galatea]
Track length3:35
Act 2 "Galatea, dry thy tears" [Chorus]
Track length3:02

Awards and reviews

October 2009

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 are enthralling.

2010

Daneman sings Galatea with something more than stylised pastoral sensuality...Ewing's Polyphemus, done with spirit and humour in a well-focused, firm-edged voice and articulated with precision, is excellent...it's a polished and strongly characterised performance, and well worth trying.

1999

Christie’s new version… is a polished and strongly characterized performance, finely recorded, and is certainly the first I would urge anyone to try
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