Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Complete cantata)

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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Complete cantata)
Sandrine Piau, Sara Mingardo, Laurent Naouri / Le Concert d'Astrae, Emmanuelle Haim

[ Eratio Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 January 2018

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2003

Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, an unstaged serenata composed for a ducal wedding in Naples in 1708, is not to be confused with the slightly more operatic Acis and Galatea, written in London in 1718. Both adapt a tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Italian work is bolder in conception and far more virtuosic than its English pastoral counterpart and features some of Handel's finest arias.