The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Acis & Galatea (1988)
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Acis & Galatea (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:35:50 | 466 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 423 406-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:35:50 | 466 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 423 406-2
Composed in 1718, Handel's Acis & Galatea is based on a Greek love story retold in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Acis loves Galatea, a sea nymph, incurring the wrath of a powerful rival, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus kills Acis and the young man is turned into a river.What makes this particular performance interesting is the effort to attain the elusive ideal of authenticity. As Stanley Sadie pointed out in the liner notes, conductor John Eliot Gardiner has come quite close to this ideal, for he not only creates the original instrumental sound, but also used the five vocal soloists for ensembles, just as Handel would have done since additional singers were not available. Despite its tragic undertones, Acis & Galatea is a musical version of a pastoral, and the opening sinfonia beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of a pastoral world. While there is much charm in Handel's music, the listeners may discern a spirit of elegant, deliberate restraint, reflected in the pleasing transparence of the music. Like many Baroque renditions of mythological narratives, Handel's music is highly stylized, almost to the point of artificiality, and Gardiner's lightness of touch seems quite appropriate to the composer's fundamental musical conception of the story. Furthermore, while his clearly articulated tempos imbue the entire performance with an unmistakable structural clarity, Gardiner never fails to adapt his tempos to the narrative requirements of dramatic action. This flexibility is exemplified by Galatea's aria "Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire!" – in which the delicate accompaniment provides a generous context for the heroine's bittersweet song of love and longing. A similar sensitivity to dramatic context is evident in the performance of the chorus "Wretched Lovers! Fate Has Past," a delicate stylistic synthesis of opulent polyphonic writing, dramatic tension, and expressive balance.
The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Acis & Galatea (1988)
Track List:
CD 1:
1. Sinfonia
2. Oh, The Pleasure Of The Plains!
3. Ye Verdant Plains And Woody Mountains
4. Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire!
5. Where Shall I Seek The Charming Fair?
6. Stay, Shepherd, Stay!
7. Stay, Sepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing?
8. Lo! Here My Love!
9. Love In Her Eyes Sits Playing
10. Oh! Didst Thou Know The Pains Of Absent Love
11. As When The Dove
12. Happy We!
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CD 2:
1. Wretched Lovers! Fate Has Past
2. I Rage - I Melt - I Burn!
3. O Ruddier Than The Cherry
4. Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running
5. Cease To Beauty To Be Suing
6. Would You Gain The Tender Creature
7. His Hideous Love Provokes My Rage
8. Love Sounds Th'alarm
9. Consider, Fond Shepherd
10. Cease, O Cease, Thou Gentle Youth
11. The Flocks Shall Leave The Mountains
12. Help, Galatea! Help, Ye Parent Gods!
13. Mourn, All Ye Muses! Weep, All Ye Swains!
14. Must I My Acis Still Bemoan
15. Tis Done: Thus I Exert My Pow'r Divine
16. Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight
17. Galatea, Dry Thy Tears
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Performers:
Norma Burrowes - Galatea
Anthony Rolfe Johnson - Acis
Martyn Hill - Damon
Willard White - Polyphemus
Paul Elliot
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
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