A complete version of Georg Frideric Handel's "Acis & Galatea" (Joan Sutherland, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan & David Galliver) - No. 1

While my two votings are still going on, I decided that I should do something new. Each two months I'm going to put out a whole opera on Youtube. The opera of this month (actually, two months) is Handel's gentle Acis and Galatea. A quite short work, Acis and Galatea still has quite a bit of wonderful music: for example, Galatea's "Hush, ye pretty warbling" and "As when the dove laments her love", Polyphemus's "O ruddier than the cherry" and the duet for two lovers "Happy we". I do hope that you enjoy this beautiful pastoral opera (comments are required). There are many versions to choose from, but my favorite one is the Adrian Boult 1960 recording. Although it isn't terribly authentic (some repetitions are just skipped, there aren't any variations), Adrian Boult leads a very commpassionate recording, the soloists (Joan Sutherland, Peter Pears and Owen Brannigan) are top-notch; actually, everything is absolutely right. The first part includes:
1. Ouverture;
2. No. 1 - Chorus: "Oh the pleasure of the the plains".

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[RusskiSuperPower]

This is so beautiful, harmonious, heavenly! Handel is the best composer who has ever walked this earth.

[DekoTZM]

This kind of music is... is divine, it's heavenly, it's beautiful... Thank!

Deko ^^

[FrederickLiszt]

1 dislike.... was that bachs revenge for handel not being eager to meet him. XD

[saxcoburg]

Ja, Herr Mozart schrieb diese auch. Exzellent!

[TedinNY]

Hi:

I think it's a wonderful, generous action on your part to upload an opera a month. This will enrich the Youtube experience for many of us. (It already has; I'm here aren't I?)

Maybe you could look into uploading complete operas. There are several on YouTube though I'm not quite sure how they do it.

Anyway, thanks a LOT!!

[thethikboy]

Absolutely along with Mozart and Bach and Beethoven Brahms....etc

[Mutz95]

Es ist wirklich wunderschön.

[Mutz95]

free and gay

[fiddleflopfisherman]

Was this Handel's predecessor to "the arrival of the queen of Sheba"? Some parts sure doe resemble it.

[Sergio Mora]

I see many people who write in English then tell them not to stop in discovering Dixit Dominus will be delighted by Winfred, Handel was my first discovery to the perfect music touched by God, greetings from mexico

[Sergio Mora]

no dejes de escuchar a Dixit dominus es un deleite de grandeza con un coro coreano de gran presencia y armonia que se menciona como WINFRIED, son extraordinarios y la interpretan enorme saludos