GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
1.
1
Sinfonia. Presto
3:02
2.
2
Chorus: 'Oh, the pleasure of the plains!'
5:07
3.
3
Recitative, accompanied. Galatea: 'Ye verdant plains and woody mountains'
0:41
4.
4
Air. Galatea: 'Hush, ye pretty warbling choir!'. Andante
5:57
5.
5
[Air.] Acis: 'Where shall I seek the charming fair?'. Larghetto
2:50
6.
6
Recitative. Damon: 'Stay, shepherd, stay!'
0:21
7.
7
Air. Damon: 'Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?'. Andante
4:05
8.
8
Recitative. Acis: 'Lo, here my love, turn, Galatea, hither turn thy eye!'
0:21
9.
9
Air. Acis: 'Love in her eyes sits playing'. Larghetto
6:15
10.
10
Recitative. Galatea: 'Oh, didst thou know the pains of absent love'
0:13
11.
11
Air. Galatea: 'As when the dove'. Andante
5:53
12.
12
Duet. Acis and Galatea: 'Happy we!'. Presto
2:48
1.
14
Chorus: 'Wretched lovers! Fate has past'. A tempo ordinario
3:55
2.
15
Recitative, accompany'd. Polyphemus: 'I rage - I melt - I burn!'.
1:11
3.
16
[Air.] Polyphemus: 'O ruddier than the cherry'. Allegro
2:51
4.
17
Recitative. Polyphemus: 'Whither, fairest, art thou running' with Galatea
1:01
5.
18
Air. Polyphemus: 'Cease to beauty to be suing'. Allegro e staccato
4:55
6.
19
Air. Coridon: 'Would you gain the tender creature'. Allegro
5:10
7.
20
Recitative. Acis: 'His hideous love provokes my rage'
0:19
8.
21
Air. Acis: 'Love sounds th' alarm'. Allegro
4:15
9.
22
Air. Damon: 'Consider, fond shepherd'. Larghetto
6:53
10.
23
Recitative. Galatea: 'Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth'
0:26
11.
24
[Trio.] Acis and Galatea: 'The flocks shall leave the mountains'.
2:13
12.
25
Recitative, accompany'd. Acis: 'Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!'
1:17
13.
26
Chorus: 'Mourn, all ye muses! Weep, all ye swains!'.
3:01
14.
27
Solo and Chorus. Galatea: 'Must I my Acis still bemoan'.
4:25
15.
28
Recitative. Galatea: 'Tis done! Thus I exert my pow'r Divine'
0:25
16.
29
Air. Galatea: 'Heart, the sea of soft delight'. Larghetto
3:42
17.
30
Chorus: 'Galatea, dry thy tears'
3:04
Solo: Benjamin Hulett Damon - tenor
Solo: Jeremy Budd Coridon - tenor
Orchestra: Early Opera Company
Conductor: Christian Curnyn