Handel / Crowe / Curnyn Acis & Galatea Super-Audio CD

The award-winning Early Opera Company under the direction of founder Christian Curnyn celebrates the 300th anniversary of the premiere of one of Handel's most sublime creations: Acis and Galatea. This unique interpretation is performed as Handel himself specified in the manuscript: supported by fourteen period instruments, the outstanding cast of singers takes on the solo parts as well as the magnificent choruses. This is Handel writing at his highest levels of intimacy and intensity; the music superbly supports the libretto's evocative portrayal of the story, simultaneously restrained, economical, and deeply moving. It is exquisite music, and has been the Early Opera Company's most frequently requested and played performance over the last few years. With the addition of Baroque experts Lucy Crowe and Benjamin Hulett, previously featured on the award-winning Chandos recording of Serse, this album in surround sound is not only an extraordinary achievement for the company but a must-have for all early music lovers.

1. Overture - Early Opera Company 2. Oh the Pleasure of the Plains! 3. Ye Verdant Plains - Hush, Hush, Ye Pretty Warbling Quire 4. Where Shall I Seek the Charming Fair? 5. Stay, Shepherd, Stay - Shepherd, What Art Thou Pursuing 6. Lo! Here My Love - Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing 7. Oh! Didst Thou Know the Pains of Absent Love - As When the Dove Laments Her Love 8. Happy We 9. Happy We (Chorus) 10. Wretched Lovers 11. I Rage, I Melt, I Burn 12. O Ruddier Than the Cherry 13. Whither, Fairest, Art Thou Running 14. Cease to Beauty to Be Suing 15. Would You Gain the Tender Creature? 16. His Hideous Love Provokes My Rage - Love Sounds Th'alarm 17. Consider, Fond Shepherd 18. Cease, Oh Cease, Thou Gentle Youth 19. The Flocks Shall Leave the Mountains 20. Help, Galatea! 21. Mourn, All Ye Muses 22. Must I My Acis Still Bemoan 23. Tis Done, Thus I Exert My Pow'r Divine - Heart, the Seat of Soft Delight 24. Galatea, Dry Thy Tears