Handel - Acis and Galatea (2 CDs) torrent

Music : Classical : Lossless


A fine version of Handel's great pastoral divertissement in Dunedin's Consort usual lean, "green", almost acerbic style (listen to Susan Hamilton's boyish Galatea, but also to the pleasant tanginess of the first violins' entries in the ouverture, or the sharp contrast between Galatea's tone and the male voices in the first choir ... ).


George Frideric HANDEL
ACIS & GALATEA, HWV 49a
Original Cannons Performing Version (1718)

Susan Hamilton, Galatea
Nicholas Mulroyd, Acis
Thomas Hobbs, Damon
Nicholas Hurndall Smith, Coridon
Matthew Brook, Polyphemus
Dunedin Consort (2, 2, 0, 2, 1; 2 recorders, 2 oboes, bassoon, harpsichord)
John Butt, harpsichord and direction


2CDs Linn Records CKD319 (2008)
41'19+53'59
eac + cue, flac 6, scans