Handel: Acis and Galatea
Norma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
Gardiner's 1978 disc with his newly founded English Baroque Soloists shows few signs of its age. Rolfe Johnson's mellifluous Acis is still the best on disc, although White is too genteel as...
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Norma Burrowes (Galatea), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis), Martyn Hill (Damon), Willard White (Polyphemus)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Early Music
Gardiner's 1978 disc with his newly founded English Baroque Soloists shows few signs of its age. Rolfe Johnson's mellifluous Acis is still the best on disc, although White is too genteel as...
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Contents and tracklist
- Martyn Hill (tenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Willard White (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano)
- English Baroque Soloists
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Recorded: 1978-02
- Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London
Awards and reviews
October 2009
Gardiner's 1978 disc with his newly founded English Baroque Soloists shows few signs of its age. Rolfe Johnson's mellifluous Acis is still the best on disc, although White is too genteel as Polyphemus.
