Les Boréades de Montréal & Eric Milnes - Handel: Acis & Galatea (2004)

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Title: Handel: Acis & Galatea
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: ATMA Classique
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, booklet)
Total Time: 1:33:50
Total Size: 461 MB
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Tracklist:

CD1
Act I
1 Sinfonia 3:18
2 Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus) 5:53
3 Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains (Galatea) 0:44
4 Aria: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea) 5:56
5 Aria: Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis) 3:09
6 Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon) 0:19
7 Aria: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon) 4:16
8 Recitative: Lo! here my love (Acis) 0:25
9 Aria: Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis) 6:53
10 Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea) 0:07
11 Aria: As when the dove (Galatea) 6:22
12 Duet: Happy we! (Acis, Galatea) 2:34
13 Happy we! (Chorus) 0:44

CD2
Act II
1 Wretched lovers (Chorus) 4:30
3 Accompagnato: I rage! (Polyphemus) 1:21
4 Aria: O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus) 3:08
5 Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea) 1:06
6 Aria: Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus) 5:04
7 Aria: Would you gain the tender creature (Damon) 5:57
8 Recitative: His hideous love (Acis) 0:27
9 Aria: Love sounds th'alarm (Acis) 4:37
10 Aria: Consider, fond shepherd (Damon) 7:15
11 Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea) 0:26
12 Trio: The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus) 2:32
13 Accompagnato: Help, Galatea (Acis) 1:00
14 Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus) 4:02
15 Aria: Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus) 4:30
16 Recitative: 'Tis done (Galatea) 0:21
17 Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea) 4:11
18 Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus) 2:32


From his great oratorios we know Handel as a master of epic grandeur and dramatic majesty. The pastoral masque Acis and Galatea (1718) shows another side to the composer, one of transparent lightness, refined sensuality, and tenderness. Yet whatever the means he employs to his ends, we are ever awed and elated by the unshakable generosity of this great European musician. A brilliant cast of singers and the award-winning Boréades ensemble team up in this fresh look at an early Handel masterwork.

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