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| George Frideric Handel: Acis and Galatea | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dunedin Consort & Players
Creators: George Frideric Handel, John Butt
Label: Linn Records
Category: Music
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 21866
Format: Sacd, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 691062031929
EAN: 0691062031929
ASIN: B001HWU3ZC
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Act 1. Sinfonia | | • | Act 1. Chorus. Oh, the pleasure of the plains! | | • | Act 1. Accompagnato. Ye verdant plains & woody mountains | | • | Act 1. Air. Hush, ye pretty warbling choir! | | • | Act 1. Air. Where shall I seek the charming fair? | | • | Act 1. Recitative. Stay, shepherd, stay! | | • | Act 1. Air. Shepherd, what art thou pursuing? | | • | Act 1. Recitative. Lo, here my love | | • | Act 1. Air. Love in her eyes sits playing | | • | Act 1. Recitative. Oh, didst thou know the pains of absent love | | • | Act 1. Air. As when the dove laments her love | | • | Act 1. Duet. Happy, happy we! |
Disc 2
| • | Act 2. Chorus. Wretched lovers! | | • | Act 2. Accompagnato. I rage - I melt - I burn! | | • | Act 2. Air. O ruddier than the cherry | | • | Act 2. Recitative. Whither, fairest, art thou running | | • | Act 2. Air. Cease to beauty to be suing | | • | Act 2. Air. Would you gain the tender creature | | • | Act 2. Recitative. His hideous love provokes my rage | | • | Act 2. Air. Love sounds th' alarm | | • | Act 2. Air. Consider, fond shepherd | | • | Act 2. Recitative. Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth | | • | Act 2. Trio. The flocks shall leave the mountains | | • | Act 2. Accompagnato. Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods! | | • | Act 2. Chorus. Mourn, all ye muses | | • | Act 2. Solo & Chorus. Must I my Acis still bemoan | | • | Act 2. Recitative. 'Tis done! Thus I exert my pow'r divine | | • | Act 2. Air. Heart, the seat of soft delight | | • | Act 2. Chorus. Galatea, dry thy tears | | • | Act 2. Air. Love sounds th' alarm | | • | Act 2. Air. Consider, fond shepherd | | • | Act 2. Recitative. Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth | | • | Act 2. Trio. The flocks shall leave the mountains | | • | Act 2. Accompagnato. Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods! | | • | Act 2. Chorus. Mourn, all ye muses | | • | Act 2. Solo & Chorus. Must I my Acis still bemoan | | • | Act 2. Recitative. 'Tis done! Thus I exert my pow'r divine | | • | Act 2. Air. Heart, the seat of soft delight | | • | Act 2. Chorus. Galatea, dry thy tears |
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| Customer Reviews:
 More Good Handel from Linn! December 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Once again Linn Records, John Butt, and the Dunedin Consort have delivered
a wonderful Hybrid SACD set of Baroque music. The soloists who are veterins of both the Handel Messiah and Bach St. Matthew Passion recordings which also come highly recommended, bring the characters of this Handelian style Masque to brilliant life. The musicians really play the dickens out of the music. John Butt leads the whole thing with good taste and while showing plenty of scholarship, also shows plenty of heart too. A great performance and a great recording from the Consort and Linn
Records.
Handel's original "Acis" superbly done December 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Handel's "Acis & Galatea," his first major English-language dramatic work, is superb music from start to finish, and is superbly served by this splendid new recording from the enterprising Scottish ensemble the Dunedin Consort & Players under director John Butt. While there have been other fine versions of Handel's original (and preferable) chamber version - only 5 singers (soprano, 3 tenors, bass) and a small group of instruments - Butt has thought anew about the evidence of the manuscript sources and the expressive possibilities of such intimate forces. And while there are no major textual changes - the most important is the restoration of the character of "Coridon" (Tenor 3) who is assigned "Would you gain the tender creature" - every number shows signs of fresh thought, both musical and dramatic, and the results are lovely. This extends to the casting: soprano Susan Hamilton's light, pure voice gives Galatea a poised and innocent, almost adolescent quality, and contrasts sharply (though blending well) with Nicholas Mulroy's virile, more overtly passionate Acis; thus the ultimate incapatibility of immortal sea-nymph and mortal shepherd (think Rusalka or Andersen's Little Mermaid) is highlighted. Matthew Brooks's giant Polyphemus is rightly semi-comic, beautifully sung and fully of witty inflections. Both supporting tenors are excellent. But it's the overall sense of real teamwork (the choruses are gloriously done) and Butt's well-judged leadership, not least in how one numbers leads into the next, plus the fine instrumental work, that make this so satisfying. I think this will be a version of "Acis" to live with.
 OLD MAN ACIS November 18, 2008
0 out of 12 found this review helpful
Whilst the other soloists are very fine, the fact is that tenor Nicholas Mulroy sounds old enough to be Galatea's father, if not her grandfather. A very strange choice.
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