Handel - Acis and Galatea / Гендель - Ацис и Галатея 2019

Handel - Acis and Galatea / Гендель - Ацис и Галатея

Жанр: Classical opera
Страна-производитель диска: Made in EU
Год издания диска: 2019
Издатель (лейбл): CORO
Номер по каталогу: COR16169
Дата записи: 2018
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 39'23 + 49'40 / 01:28:43
Источник: релизер
-источник/ник/другое: makdelart, подарок; Caterina Sforza - работа с cue, доп сканы
: да, полный авторский буклет jpeg, 23 страницы + два web pdf буклета

Треклист

CD1

Act One

1-1 Sinfonia 3:20

1-2 Chorus: O, The Pleasure Of The Plains! 5:41

1-3 Accompagnato: Galatea - Ye Verdant Plains 0:44

1-4 Air: Galatea - Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire! 6:11

1-5 Air: Acis - Where Shall I Seek The Charming Fair? 3:31

1-6a Recitative: Damon - Stay, Shepherd, Stay! 4:41

1-6b Air: Damon - Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing?

1-7a Recitative: Acis - Lo, Here My Love 6:20

1-7b Air: Acis - Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing

1-8a Recitative: Galatea - Oh, Didst Thou Know The Pains 5:57

1-8b Air: Galatea - As When The Dove

1-9 Duet: Galatea, Acis - Happy We! 2:51

CD2

Act Two

2-1 Chorus - Wretched Lovers! 4:06

2-2 Accompagnato: Polyphemus - I Rage - I Melt - I Burn! 1:14

2-3 Air: Polyphemus - O Ruddier Than The Cherry 3:03

2-4 Recitative: Polyphemus, Galatea - Whither, Fairest 1:03

2-5 Air: Polyphemus - Cease To Beauty To Be Suing 5:18

2-6 Air: Coridon - Would You Gain The Tender Creature 4:57

2-7a Recitative: Acis - His Hideous Love 4:52

2-7b Air: Acis - Love Sounds Th'Alarm

2-8 Air: Damon - Consider, Fond Shepherd 6:34

2-9 Recitative: Galatea - Cease, Oh Cease 0:26

2-10 Trio: Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus - The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains 2:18

2-11 Accompagnato: Acis - Help, Galatea! 1:16

2-12 Chorus: Mourn, All Ye Muses! 3:11

2-13a Solo & Chorus: Galatea - Must I My Acis Still Bemoan 4:09

2-13b Recitative: Galatea - 'Tis Done!

2-14 Air: Galatea - Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight 3:48

2-15 Chorus: Galatea, Dry Thy Tears 3:12

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Исполнители

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
ACIS AND GALATEA
A Serenata or Pastoral Entertainment, HWV 49a (1718). Libretto by John Gay and others, after Ovid’s Metamorphoses, XIII
Jeremy Budd (Acis -tenor-)
Grace Davidson (Galatea -soprano-)
Stuart Young (Polyphemus -bass-)
Mark Dobell (Damon -tenor-)
Simon Berridge (Coridon -tenor-)
[u]The Sixteen[/u]
Alastair Ross (organ & harpsichord)
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Recorded at: Church of St Augustine's, Kilburn, London, 25-27 June 2018
Release Date: February 1, 2019

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Review

AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
Handel's Acis and Galatea, short and sweet, has been among his most enduringly popular works. Part of its fascination resides in its generic ambiguity: it may be classified as an oratorio (although its choral elements are sparse), a serenade, a masque, a pastoral, or, perhaps most accurately by Handel himself as 'a little opera.' The story involves a shepherd, Acis, a kind of goddess-nymph, Galatea, and a rude giant, Polyphemus, who is jealous of the love of Acis and Galatea (spoiler: Acis is killed and ends up as a fountain). The music hits the pastoral mood from the very start with the subdominant harmonies and fetching suspensions of the Sinfonia. The work has been expanded in several dimensions, including by Handel himself over the decades and centuries, but the original 1718 version of the work, the one heard here, is perhaps preferable: the mix of fun and light tragedy in the work comes through most clearly. Likewise, although the opera has been done plenty of times by full-on operatic voices, and listeners may fondly remember the version with Peter Pears and Joan Sutherland from the 1950s, the smaller-scale singing of Jeremy Budd and Grace Davidson is attractive indeed, and the one-voice-per-part chorus reflects the circumstances of the work's original performance. Sample Davidson's charmingly injured 'Must I my Acis still bemoan.' An altogether delightful version of this familiar Handel work.
Product Description
Handels pastoral opera is a tale of love, tragedy and liberation. The libretto by John Gay, based on Ovids Metamorphoses (book XIII), tells of the eternal love between the mortal shepherd Acis and goddess Galatea and how it is doomed by the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. Handels music beautifully demonstrates the pain and love in such beautiful, dramatic choruses as Wretched lovers! and the grief felt by Galatea in Must I my Acis still bemoan. Staying true to the premiere in 1718, just five singers and nine instrumentalists feature on this intimate recording.