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".

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Handel
• Joan
• Sutherland
• Peter
• Pears
• Adrian
• Boult
• Coloratura
• Baroque

[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 ^^

[thethikboy]

@RusskiSuperPower 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.

[46poeta]

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

[46poeta]

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

[esterluc4]

@46poeta hola, tienes toda la razón, sus obras son fantásticas, tengo varios cds de él y también esta ópera

[RomanTschannen]

One of Händel's best Ouverture!

[46poeta]

otra de las obras maestras de Haendel de sus tantos oratorios les suplico a los usuarios de Youtube que se cultiven y descubran a este genio aleman unico que es una muestra de grandeza humana, Dios lo señalo para jamas ser olvidado, pero tienen que descubrirlo, en esta, en sus coccerti grossi, en el mesias, en Judas macabeus, en fin, no mueran sin saberlo, denle sentido a sus vidas