Georg Friedrich Händel - Acis & Galatea

CD1


01 [1] SINFONIA  3:14

02 [2] CHORUS “O the pleasure of the plains!“  5:38


03 [3] ACCOMPAGNATO ”Ye verdant plains and woody mountains”

    (Galatea)  0:52


04 [4] AIR ”Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!“ (Galatea)  5:41

05 [5] AIR ”Where shall I seek the charming fair?“ (Acis)  3:06


06 [6] RECITATIVE ”Stay, shepherd, stay!“ (Damon)  :32

  AIR “Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?” (Damon)


07 [7] RECITATIVE ”Lo, here my love” (Acis)   7:01

  AIR “Love in her eyes sits playing” (Acis)


08 [ 8] RECITATIVE ”Oh, didst thou know the pains of

  absent love” (Galatea)  6:28

  AIR “As when the dove laments her love” (Galatea)


09 [9] DUET ”Happy we“ (Galatea, Acis)   2:58


Total Time: 39:35




CD2


01 [10] CHORUS ”Wretched lovers!“   3:55

02 [11] ACCOMPAGNATO ”I rage – I melt – I burn!“ (Polyphemus)  1:30

03 [12] AIR “O ruddier than the cherry“ (Polyphemus)  3:09


04 [13] RECITATIVE “Whither, fairest, art thou running“

    (Polyphemus, Galatea)   5:59

    AIR “Cease to beauty to be suing” (Polyphemus)


05 [14] AIR ”Would you gain the tender creature“ (Damon)  4:59

06 [15] RECITATIVE ”His hideous love provokes my rage” (Acis)   4:49

    AIR “Love sounds th‘alarm” (Acis)


07 [16] AIR ”Consider, fond shepherd“ (Damon)  6:34


08 [17] RECITATIVE ”Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth“ (Galatea)  2:36

    TRIO “The flocks shall leave the mountains”

       (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)


09 [18] ACCOMPAGNATO ”Help, Galatea!” (Acis)  1:08

10 [19] CHORUS ”Mourn, all ye muses!”  3:13

11 [20] SOLO (Galatea) AND CHORUS ”Must I my Acis still bemoan”    4:29


12 [21] RECITATIVE ”‘Tis done! Thus I exert my pow‘r divine”

      (Galatea)   4:33

    AIR “Heart, the seat of soft delight” (Galatea)

13 [22] CHORUS ”Galatea, dry thy tears“   3:14


Total Time: 50:25