Album · 1988
Acis and Galatea
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Acis and Galatea: Sinfonia
Acis and Galatea
3:27
2
Acis and Galatea: "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
Acis and Galatea
5:55
3
Acis and Galatea: "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains"
Acis and Galatea
0:57
4
Acis and Galatea: "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!"
Acis and Galatea
6:20
5
Acis and Galatea: "Where shall I seek the charming fair?"
Acis and Galatea
3:23
6
Acis and Galatea: "Stay, shepherd, stay!"
Acis and Galatea
0:26
7
Acis and Galatea: "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?"
Acis and Galatea
4:29
8
Acis and Galatea: "Lo! here my love!"
Acis and Galatea
0:31
9
Acis and Galatea: "Love in her eyes sits playing"
Acis and Galatea
6:53
10
Acis and Galatea: "Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love"
Acis and Galatea
0:21
11
Acis and Galatea: "As when the dove"
Acis and Galatea
6:33
12
Acis and Galatea: "Happy we!"
Acis and Galatea
2:33
Disc 2
1
Acis and Galatea: "Wretched lovers! Fate has past!"
Acis and Galatea
5:05
2
Acis and Galatea: "I rage - I melt - I burn!"
Acis and Galatea
1:24
3
Acis and Galatea: "O ruddier than the cherry"
Acis and Galatea
3:08
4
Acis and Galatea: "Whither, fairest, art thou running"
Acis and Galatea
1:06
5
Acis and Galatea: "Cease to beauty to be suing"
Acis and Galatea
5:40
6
Acis and Galatea: "Would you gain the tender creature"
Acis and Galatea
5:42
7
Acis and Galatea: "His hideous love provokes my rage"
Acis and Galatea
0:27
8
Acis and Galatea: "Love sounds th'alarm"
Acis and Galatea
5:27
9
Acis and Galatea: "Consider, fond shepherd"
Acis and Galatea
6:34
10
Acis and Galatea: "Cease, O cease, thou gentle youth"
Acis and Galatea
0:31
11
Acis and Galatea: "The flocks shall leave the mountains"
Acis and Galatea
2:31
12
Acis and Galatea: "Help, Galatea! help, ye parent gods!"
Acis and Galatea
1:05
13
Acis and Galatea: "Mourn, all ye muses! weep, all ye swains!"
Acis and Galatea
3:17
14
Acis and Galatea: "Must I my Acis still bemoan"
Acis and Galatea
3:55
15
Acis and Galatea: "Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine"
Acis and Galatea
0:25
16
Acis and Galatea: "Heart, the seat of soft delight"
Acis and Galatea
4:09
17
Acis and Galatea: "Galatea, dry thy tears"
Acis and Galatea
3:12
In print
First pressed 1978, still pressed 2004 — 6 pressings across 3 countries.
Credits
Elke Neuß-Burghoff
Art Direction
Lutz Bode
Art Direction
Claude Lorrain
Artwork · cover, painting [acis and galatea]
George Frideric Handel
Composer
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor
Heinz Wildhagen
Engineer
Balthasar Denner
Illustration
Barry Guy
Instrument · double bass
David Reichenberg
Instrument · oboe
Elizabeth Wilcock
Instrument · violin [ii]
Jeremy Ward
Instrument · bassoon
John Holloway
Instrument · violin [i]
Marcia Crayford
Instrument · violin [ii]
Miles Golding
Instrument · violin [i]
Nicholas Kraemer
Instrument · harpsichord
Nona Liddell
Instrument · violin [i]
Polly Waterfield
Instrument · violin [i]
Roy Howat
Instrument · violin [ii]
Simon Standage
Instrument · violin [ii]
Sophia McKenna
Instrument · oboe
Giovanni Lopez
Liner Notes
Jacques Fournier
Liner Notes
John Coombs
Liner Notes
Stanley Sadie
Liner Notes
Wolfram Windszus
Liner Notes
English Baroque Soloists
Performing Orchestra
Clive Barda
Photography
Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Producer · executive-producer
Dr Gerd Ploebsch
Producer
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Vocal · tenor vocals
Martyn Hill
Vocal · tenor vocals
Norma Burrowes
Vocal · soprano vocals
Willard White
Vocal · bass vocals