Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    ACIS AND GALATEA, HWV 49 - ACT 1. Sinfonia
    George Frideric Handel
    3:40
  • 2
    Chorus: Oh, the pleasure of the plains
    George Frideric Handel
    5:40
  • 3
    Accompagnato (Galatea): Ye verdant plains
    George Frideric Handel
    0:49
  • 4
    Air (Galatea): Hush, ye pretty warbling quire
    George Frideric Handel
    6:56
  • 5
    Air (Acis): Where shall I seek the charming fair
    George Frideric Handel
    3:01
  • 6
    Recitative (Damon): Stay, shepherd, stay
    George Frideric Handel
    0:24
  • 7
    Air (Damon): Shepherd, what art thou pursuing
    George Frideric Handel
    4:54
  • 8
    Recitative (Acis): Lo! here my love
    George Frideric Handel
    0:28
  • 9
    Air (Acis): Love in her eyes sits playing
    George Frideric Handel
    7:01
  • 10
    Recitative (Galatea): Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love
    George Frideric Handel
    0:17
  • 11
    Air (Galatea): As when the dove laments
    George Frideric Handel
    6:19
  • 12
    Duet (Acis and Galatea) & Chorus: Happy we!
    George Frideric Handel
    3:35
  • CD 2
  • 1
    ACT 2. Chorus: Wretched lovers!
    George Frideric Handel
    6:06
  • 2
    Accompagnato (Polyphemus): I rage, I melt, I burn
    George Frideric Handel
    1:19
  • 3
    Air (Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry
    George Frideric Handel
    3:27
  • 4
    Recitative (Polyphemus, Galatea): Whither, fairest, art thou running?
    George Frideric Handel
    1:22
  • 5
    Air (Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing
    George Frideric Handel
    5:36
  • 6
    Air (Damon): Would you gain the tender creature
    George Frideric Handel
    5:31
  • 7
    Recitative (Acis): His hideous love provokes my rage
    George Frideric Handel
    0:29
  • 8
    Air (Acis): Love sounds th'alarm
    George Frideric Handel
    5:20
  • 9
    Air (Damon): Consider, fond shepherd
    George Frideric Handel
    5:22
  • 10
    Recitative (Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth
    George Frideric Handel
    0:26
  • 11
    Trio (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountains - Torture, fury, rage, despair
    George Frideric Handel
    3:00
  • 12
    Accompagnato (Acis): Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!
    George Frideric Handel
    1:11
  • 13
    Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses
    George Frideric Handel
    5:54
  • 14
    Solo (Galatea) & Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan? - Cease, Galatea, cease to grieve
    George Frideric Handel
    6:37
  • 15
    Recitative (Galatea): 'Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine
    George Frideric Handel
    0:19
  • 16
    Air (Galatea): Heart, the seat of soft delight
    George Frideric Handel
    3:50
  • 17
    Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears
    George Frideric Handel
    2:38

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