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1.1 Act I: Sinfonia1.2 Act I: Oh, the Pleasures of the Plain1.3 Act I: Accompagnato: Ye Verdant Plains1.4 Act I: Aria: Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire1.5 Act I: Aria: Where Shall I Seek the Charming Fair1.6 Act I: Recitative: Stay, Shepherd, Stay1.7 Act I: Aria: Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing1.8 Act I: Recitative: Lo! Here My Love1.9 Act I: Aria: Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing1.10 Act I: Recitative: Oh! Didst Thou Know the Pains of Absent Love1.11 Act I: Aria: As When the Dove1.12 Act I: Duet: Happy We!1.13 Act II: Wretched Lovers1.14 Act II: Accompagnato: I Rage!1.15 Act II: Aria: O Ruddier Than the Cherry1.16 Act II: Recitative: Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running1.17 Act II: Aria: Cease to Beauty to Be Suing2.1 Act II: Aria: Would You Gain the Tender Creature2.2 Act II: Recitative: His Hideous Love2.3 Act II: Aria: Love Sounds Th'alarm2.4 Act II: Aria: Consider, Fond Shepherd2.5 Act II: Recitative: Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth2.6 Act II: Trio: The Flocks Shall Leave2.7 Act II: Accompagnato: Help, Galatea2.8 Act II: Mourn, All Ye Muses2.9 Act II: Aria: Must I My Acis Still Bemoan2.10 Act II: Recitative: 'Tis Done2.11 Act II: Aria: Heart, the Seat of Soft Delight2.12 Act II: Galatea, Dry Thy Tears2.13 Sarei Troppo Felice2.14 Se Al Pensier Dar Mai Potro2.15 Clori, Schernita Clori2.16 Giusto Ciel Se Non Ho Sorte2.17 Ah! Che Un Cieco Ho Per Guida |
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2 |
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Aaron Sheehan |
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Description: | CPO's previous release with the soloists and ensembles of the Boston Early Music Festival was awarded two prestigious prizes. The recording of Charpentier's opera La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs received the Grammy Award for the Best Opera Production in February 2015 and recently won the Klassik-Echo 2015, again for the Best Opera Recording of the Year. Prior to this double success, other productions by cpo and BEMF had been nominated for Gramophone Awards. In the category of the Best Opera Production these were Ariadne by Johann Georg Conradi and Thésée and Psyché by Jean-Baptiste Lully. In addition, Thésée and Psyché received nominations in the category honoring Baroque Vocal Works. Now the American ensemble has joined forces with successful soloists like Aaron Sheehan and Teresa Wakim for our production of Handel's opera Acis and Galatea in the version of 1718, which was composed for the landed estate of the Earl of Carnarvon and does not recycle music from the earlier version. 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. |
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No. of tracks: |
34 |
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Manufacturer No.: |
7778772 |
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