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Handel: Acis and Galatea. Album by The Sixteen

Handel: Acis and Galatea. Album by The Sixteen

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Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik - Best Listen Award, February 2019

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.

Gramophone Magazine's Podcast:James Jolly interviews Harry Christophers about The Sixteen's new recording of Handel's Acis and Galatea. 

Artists

Jeremy Budd  Acis
Grace Davidson  Galatea
Stuart Young  Polyphemus
Mark Dobell  Damon
Simon Berridge  Coridon
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers

Track Listing

CDs 1-2
George Friderich Handel (1685-1795)
Acis and Galatea