Handel - Acis and Galatea | Coro COR16169

Handel - Acis and Galatea

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Label: Coro

Cat No: COR16169

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st February 2019

Contents

Artists

Jeremy Budd
Grace Davidson
Stuart Young
Mark Dobell
Simon Berridge
The Sixteen

Conductor

Harry Christophers

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Acis and Galatea, HWV49

Artists

Jeremy Budd
Grace Davidson
Stuart Young
Mark Dobell
Simon Berridge
The Sixteen

Conductor

Harry Christophers

About

Famed for its interpretations of some of Handel’s most loved works, The Sixteen marks the start of its 40th anniversary season by releasing its first new Handel recording in five years. Handel’s pastoral opera is a tale of love, tragedy and liberation. The libretto by John Gay, based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book XIII), tells of the eternal love between the mortal shepherd Acis and goddess Galatea and how it is doomed by the jealous cyclops Polyphemus. Handel’s music beautifully demonstrates the pain and love in such beautiful, dramatic choruses as ‘Wretched lovers!’ and the grief felt by Galatea in ‘Must I my Acis still bemoan’. Staying true to the premiere in 1718, just five singers and nine instrumentalists feature on this intimate recording.

‘Grace Davidson’s Galatea was marked by purity of voice and superb, faultless sense of pitch… A superb, life-enhancing performance.’ – Seen and Heard International

Cast:
- Acis: Jeremy Budd
- Galatea: Grace Davidson
- Polyphemus; Stuart Young
- Damon: Mark Dobell
- Coridon: Simon Berridge

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