Awards:

Building a Library, March 2000, Second Choice

A steady and lovely account, with Ainsley on top form.

BBC Music Magazine, October 2009

Handel: Acis and Galatea

Claron McFadden (Galatea), John Mark Ainsley (Acis), Rogers Covey-Crump (Damon), Michael George (Polyphemus), Robert Harre-Jones (alto)

The King's Consort, Robert King

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Building a Library, March 2000, Second Choice

A steady and lovely account, with Ainsley on top form.

BBC Music Magazine, October 2009

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Label: Hyperion
Catalogue number: CDA663612
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes
Genre:
- Opera

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Acis and Galatea

Work length1:34:01

Claron McFadden (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Michael George (bass), Robert Harre-Jones (countertenor)
King's Consort
Robert King

Part 1 No 01. Sinfonia

Track length3:14

Part 1 No 02. Oh, the pleasure of the plains! (Chorus)

Track length5:50

Part 1 No 03. Accompagnato. Ye verdant plains and woody mountains (Galatea)

Track length0:48

Part 1 No 04. Air. Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (Galatea)

Track length6:08

Part 1 No 05. Air. Where shall I seek the charming fair? (Acis)

Track length3:19

Part 1 No 06. Recitative. Stay, shepherd, stay! (Damon)

Track length0:21

Part 1 No 07. Air. Shepherd, what art thou pursuing? (Damon)

Track length4:43

Part 1 No 08. Recitative. Lo! here my love, turn, Galatea, hither turn thy eyes (Acis)

Track length0:24

Part 1 No 09. Air. Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis)

Track length7:48

Part 1 No 10. Recitative. Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea)

Track length0:18

Part 1 No 11. Air. As when the dove (Galatea)

Track length6:30

Part 1 No 12. Duet. Happy we! (Galatea / Acis)

Track length2:45

Part 2 No 01. Wretched lovers! Fate has passed (Chorus)

Track length3:57

Part 2 No 02. Accompagnato. I rage, I melt, I burn! (Polyphemus)

Track length1:14

Part 2 No 03. Air. O ruddier than the cherry (Polyphemus)

Track length3:10

Part 2 No 04. Recitative. Whither, fairest, art thou running? (Polyphemus / Galatea)

Track length0:57

Part 2 No 05. Air. Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)

Track length5:33

Part 2 No 06. Air. Would you gain the tender creature (Damon)

Track length5:51

Part 2 No 07. Recitative. His hideous love provokes my rage (Acis)

Track length0:20

Part 2 No 08. Air. Love sounds th' alarm (Acis)

Track length5:04

Part 2 No 09. Air. Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)

Track length6:24

Part 2 No 10. Recitative. Cease, O cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)

Track length0:26

Part 2 No 11. Trio. The flocks shall leave the mountains (Galatea / Acis / Polyphemus)

Track length2:30

Part 2 No 12. Accompagnato. Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods! (Acis)

Track length1:09

Part 2 No 13. Mourn, all ye muses! Weep, all ye swains! (Chorus)

Track length3:09

Part 2 No 14. Chorus. Must I my Acis still bemoan? (Galatea / Chorus)

Track length4:12

Part 2 No 15. Recitative. 'Tis done, thus I exert my pow'r divine (Galatea)

Track length0:24

Part 2 No 16. Air. Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)

Track length4:04

Part 2 No 17. Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)

Track length3:29

Handel: Look down, harmonious saint

Work length11:56

Awards and reviews

Building a Library

March 2000

Second Choice

October 2009

A steady and lovely account, with Ainsley on top form.

An unfailingly delightful work, beautifully performed and recorded

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