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Handel: Acis and Galatea

~ William Christie (Conductor), Les Arts Florissants (Orchestra), Sophie Daneman (Performer), Patricia Petibon (Performer), Paul Agnew (Performer), et al.
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  • Performer: Sophie Daneman, Patricia Petibon, Paul Agnew, Joseph Cornwell, Alan Ewing, et al.
  • Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants
  • Conductor: William Christie
  • Composer: George Frideric Handel
  • Audio CD (5 Jul 1999)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Erato (Warner Music)
  • ASIN: B00001SIBI
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 77,967 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 SinfoniaWilliam Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:15£0.69
Listen  2. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Oh ! the pleasure of the plains" [Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 4:47£0.69
Listen  3. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:42£0.69
Listen  4. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 6:29£0.69
Listen  5. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:02£0.69
Listen  6. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Stay, shepherd, stay!" [Damon]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:19£0.69
Listen  7. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing" [Damon]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:58£0.69
Listen  8. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Lo! Here my love" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:24£0.69
Listen  9. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Love in her eyes sits playing" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 6:11£0.69
Listen10. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Oh! Didst thou know the pains" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:13£0.69
Listen11. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "As when the dove laments her love" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 6:08£0.69
Listen12. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Happy we!" [Acis, Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 2:40£0.69
Listen13. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 1 "Happy we!" [Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 1:11£0.69
Listen14. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Wretched lovers!" [Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 4:22£0.69
Listen15. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "I rage, I melt, I burn" [Polyphemus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 1:14£0.69
Listen16. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "O ruddier than the cherry" [Polyphemus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:02£0.69
Listen17. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Whither, fairest, art thou running" [Polyphemus, Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:55£0.69
Listen18. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Cease to beauty to be suing" [Polyphemus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 4:26£0.69
Listen19. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Would you gain the tender creature" [Damon]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 5:39£0.69
Listen20. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "His hideous love provokes my rage" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:21£0.69
Listen21. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Love sounds th'alarm" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 4:32£0.69
Listen22. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Consider, fond shepherd" [Coridon]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 6:33£0.69
Listen23. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:24£0.69
Listen24. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "The flocks shall leave the mountains" [Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 2:14£0.69
Listen25. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods" [Acis]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 1:14£0.69
Listen26. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Mourn, all ye muses!" [Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:42£0.69
Listen27. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Must I my Acis still bemoan" [Galatea, Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 6:05£0.69
Listen28. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "'Tis done - thus I exert pow'r divine" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants0:26£0.69
Listen29. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Heart, the seat of soft delight" [Galatea]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:35£0.69
Listen30. Handel : Acis and Galatea : Act 2 "Galatea, dry thy tears" [Chorus]William Christie & Les Arts Florissants 3:02£0.69



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Handel's sunny pastorale ("oratorio" seems too imposing a word) Acis and Galatea is just the thing to cheer you up if you're feeling gloomy, its bittersweet ending notwithstanding. It gets performed and recorded these days in several different versions, ranging from Handel's chamber-scaled 1718 original (using only five soloists, who also make up the chorus) to a German-language arrangement by Mozart with four-part choir and orchestra. William Christie's version follows the one that Handel used for a 1739 revival of the piece, in which he gave the sidekick role of Damon (originally for tenor) to a boy soprano and tacked onto Acis and Galatea's duet "Happy We" a choral reprise. The gentle nymph Galatea is the perfect role for Sophie Daneman's light soprano; Paul Agnew's gorgeous tenor is just as well suited to Acis--ardent and brave, yet light enough that you can believe the giant Polyphemus could crush him with a rock. Because he's the villain, Polyphemus is one of the few characters at whose stupidity one can laugh without feeling mean-spirited; the only problem with Alan Ewing's beautifully sung reading is that it's not very funny--it's perhaps too musically nuanced for a character that dumb. As Damon, Patricia Petibon sounds a bit ripe for a shepherd boy, but she's superb, and her embellishments are ingenious (if not particularly spontaneous); tenor Joseph Cornwell as Coridon gives a marvellous (and surprisingly robust) rendition of "Would You Gain The Tender Creature". Conductor William Christie has chosen well--not just his singers but also his tempi: for example, "Must I My Acis Still Bemoan" is much slower than usual, and much more convincingly sad. We think of Christie as a French baroque specialist, but he shows a real feeling for Handel here. --Matthew Westphal

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful recording of a wonderful piece, 26 Jul 2001
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When one wants to get a recording of a baroque piece, particularly a vocal one, there are usually two posiibilities. You may go for a non-authentic performance with world-class singers that are really not particularly suited for baroque music, while the conductors and the orchestras sound like they would rather do Wagner than Handel. On the plus side you get real drama and excitement. Or you may choose to go for a period performance, which, although scholarly, often sounds dead and without any individuality. In the case of this recording, you get the best of both worlds. This is a period performance and it sounds like Handel, but at the same time the score breathes and the singers are involved. One of Christie's best efforts. Daneman may not have the virtuosity of a Sutherland, but her voice and style are more suited to this type of repertoire, and she sounds young and vulnerable in many of her solos. Agnew has a beautiful if small voice as Acis, and he finds a note of sensuality in Acis' second air. Ewing makes Polyphemus rather comic, without much cruelty in his voice, but this is maybe the way Handel wanted it. If you are unfamiliar with the cantata, it is one of the most intimate and melodic of all Handel, and makes a perfect introduction to baroque opera.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 27 Mar 2006
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Acis and Galatea is a delightful early work composed by Handel for James Brydges at Cannons. Unfortunately, this recording is very disappointing. Just two examples of a general lack of stylistic sympathy are insensitive and consistently perverse tempi in the first half which alienate the listener, and the miscalculated casting of bland soprano voices for Damon and Corydon. The second CD is just about acceptable, but by then you really wont care. Far better to track down the John Elliott Gardiner recording from DG with Willard White.
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5.0 out of 5 stars beautifully sung and played, 28 Mar 2009
This is truly wonderful. The singing is outstanding - the voices strikingly beautiful - and the small group of players making a ravishing sound. Christie does tend towards fast speeds in the first half but there are no real costs to this approach - beauty and articulation are first rate. Also his use of very small chamber forces may not be to all tastes but works wonderfully well. I find it hard to imagine anyone not being totally captivated by these discs. This really is something very special.
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