Handel – Acis & Galatea

Haendel – Acis & Galatea
The Deller Consort & Stour Music Chamber Orchestra – Alfred Deller, dir.
Harmonia mundi « Deller Recordings » DR 216 / 217 [LPx2]
Harmonia mundi HM 216 / 217 [LPx2]
Harmonia mundi HM 30.951 XK [LPx2, Germany]
Harmonia mundi (BASF) 2929 3246 [LPx2]
RCA SRS 2000 [LPx2]
RCA « Victrola » VICS 6040 [LPx2]
Balkanton BOA 1655 [LPx2]
Musical Heritage Society MHS 824570 S [LPx2]

Contents:

    LP-1

    George-Frideric Handel « Acis & Galatea »
  1. Overture - Sinfonia - Choir: Oh the pleasure of the plains
  2. Recitative (Galatea): Ye verdant plains
  3. Aria (Galatea): hush, hush, ye pretty warbling quire
  4. Aria (Acis): Where shall I seek

    5. —
  5. Recitative (Damon): Stay, shepherd, stay
  6. Aria (Damon): Shepherd, what are thou pursuing
  7. Recitative (Acis): Lo I here my love
  8. Aria (Acis): Love in her eyes sits playing
  9. Recitative (Galatea): Oh! I didst thou know the pains
  10. Aria (Galatea): As when the dove
  11. Duet (Acis & Galatea): Happy we

    12. LP-2

  12. Choir: Wretched Lovers
  13. Recitative (Polyphemus): I rage, I melt, I burn !
  14. Aria (Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry
  15. Recitative (Polyphemus & Galatea): Wither, fairest, art thou running
  16. Aria (Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing
  17. Aria (Damon): Would you gain the tender creature
  18. Recitative (Acis): His hideous love provokes my rage
  19. Aria (Acis): Love sounds th'alarm
  20. Aria (Damon): Consider, fond shepherd

    21. —
  21. Recitative (Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth
  22. Trio (Galatea, Acis & Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountain
  23. Recitative (Acis): Help, Galatea
  24. Choir: Mourn, all ye muses
  25. Solo (Galatea) & Choir: Must I my Acis still bemoan
  26. Recitative (Galatea): This done: thus I exert my pow'r divine
  27. Aria (Galatea): Heart, the seat of soft dilight
  28. Choir: Galatea, dry thy tears

Playing time: (19' 20" + 21' 35") + (23' 45" + 21' 00") = 1h 25' 40"

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1969 or prior];
Rel.: 1969 (DR), 1971 (RCA SRS), 1985 (HM)

Performers:
The Deller Consort
Honor Sheppard (soprano « Galatea »), Mark Deller (counter-tenor), John Buttrey (tenor « Acis »), Neil Jenkins (tenor « Damon »), Maurice Bevan (barytone « Polyphemus »)
Stour Music Chamber Orchestra
Carolyn Sparey (violin), Jonathan Sparey (violin), Elizabeth Baines (violin), Duncan Druce (violins), Bernard Richard ('cello), Francis Baines (double-bass), Tess Miller (oboe), Celia Nicklin (oboe), David Munrow (recorder), Richard Lee (recorder), Robert Elliott (harpsichord)
Alfred Deller, dir.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 141-33 (nov. 1969)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 59/582-869 (November 1971)

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge