Acis and Galatea
Sunday 13 April 2008 13:00-14:00 (Radio 3)
Lucie Skeaping looks in detail at one of Handel's most popular and enduring works. With excerpts from recordings conducted by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult.
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Handel: Acis & Galatea (Sinfonia - Presto)
The English Concert
Directed by Trevor Pinnock
ARCHIV 447 700-2
Disc 1 Track 1
Handel: Acis & Galatea (Oh, the pleasure of the plains)
The St Anthony Singers / Philomusica of London
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
CHANDOS CHAN 3147
Track 2
Handel: Acis & Galatea (As when the dove; Happy we!")
Norma Burrowes (Galatea) / Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Acis)
The English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
ARCHIV 423 406-2
Disc 1 Tracks 11-12
Handel: Acis & Galatea ("I rage, I melt, I burn"; "O ruddier than the cherry"; "Whither, fairest, art thou running"; "Cease to beauty suing")
David van Asch (Polyphemus) / Kym Amps (Galatea)
The Scholars of London
DORIAN DOR 93227
Tracks 14-17
Handel: Acis & Galatea ("Cease, o cease, thou gentle youth"; "The flocks shall leave the mountains"; "Help, Galatea";)
Sophie Daneman (Galatea) / Paul Agnew (Acis) / Alan Ewing (Polyphemus)
Les Arts Florissants
Conducted by William Christie
ERATO 3984-25505-2
Disc 2 Tracks 10-12
Handel: Acis & Galatea ("Mourn all ye muses")
The English Concert
Directed by Trevor Pinnock
ARCHIV 447 700-2
Disc 2 Track 10
Handel: Acis & Galatea (Heart, the seat of soft delight; Galatea, dry they tears)
Joan Sutherland (Galatea)
The St Anthony Singers / Philomusica of London
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
CHANDOS CHAN 3147
Tracks 27 - 28
