Handel: Acis and Galatea
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HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea
Dawn Kotoski, David GordoN, Glenn Siebert, Jan Opalach / Seattle Symphony Chorale & Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
[ Naxos / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 July 2012
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"Schwarz's 1991 Seattle Acis is disciplined but passe in sound, style and rhythmic gait. It skimps on Handelian delight, though its soloist quartet is decent." BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 **
Acis and Galatea, variously described as a pastoral, a 'little opera' and a masque, is one of Handel's most popular works. It is a delectable succession of pastoral airs, love-lorn lyrics, and sprightly or mourning choruses, spiced by the pungent and unforgettable interjection of the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, who destroys the idyll of the shepherd Acis and the nymph Galatea. Handel had first turned to the subject in a cantata written in Naples in 1708. His English work, formally a masque, went through several stages until this two-act version of 1739, written principally by John Gay and graced by Handel's exquisite music.
