Handel - Acis and Galatea
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Label: CPO
Cat No: 7778772
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 4th January 2016
Contents
Artists
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)Teresa Wakim (soprano)
Douglas Williams (bass baritone)
Jason McStoots (tenor)
Zachary Wilder (tenor)
Amanda Forsythe (soprano)
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Conductors
Paul O’DetteStephen Stubbs
Works
Acis and Galatea, HWV49aCantata HWV157, 'Sarei troppo felice'
Artists
Aaron Sheehan (tenor)Teresa Wakim (soprano)
Douglas Williams (bass baritone)
Jason McStoots (tenor)
Zachary Wilder (tenor)
Amanda Forsythe (soprano)
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles
Conductors
Paul O’DetteStephen Stubbs
About
Both Acis and Galatea and the cantata Sarei troppo felice heard here represent decisive turning points in Handel’s career. The Italian cantata came at the beginning of the one and half decades spent by Handel in the service of various patrons. Acis and Galatea marks the highpoint of this phase and therefore, like the cantata before it, clearly renders recognizable the musical means available to him in the private ensembles of his employers. Moreover, Acis and Galatea contains the musical and textual seeds of the English oratorio, which after 1742 completely supplanted opera compositions.
The cantata is sung by Amanda Forsythe.
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