The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Acis & Galatea (1988)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:35:50 | 466 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 423 406-2
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:35:50 | 466 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Archiv Produktion | Catalog: 423 406-2
Composed in 1718, Handel's Acis & Galatea is based on a Greek love story retold in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Acis loves Galatea, a sea nymph, incurring the wrath of a powerful rival, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus kills Acis and the young man is turned into a river.What makes this particular performance interesting is the effort to attain the elusive ideal of authenticity.