Handel / Sixteen: Acis & Galatea

Handel / Sixteen: Acis & Galatea - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Acis & Galatea

Artist:

Handel / Sixteen

Label:

Coro

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

828021616921

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2019-02-01

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

2 PACK

Famed for it's interpretations of some of Handel's most loved works, The Sixteen marks the start of it's 40th anniversary season by releasing it's 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.

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