Handel: Acis and Galatea

Sinfonia

Les Boréades De Montréal

Wretched lovers (Chorus)

Oh, the pleasures of the plain (Chorus)

Accompagnato. I rage! (Polyphemus)

Aria. O ruddier Than the cherry (Polyphemus)

Accompagnato. Ye verdant plains (Galatea)

Recitative. Whither, fairest, art thou running (Polyphemus, Galatea)

Aria. Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Galatea)

Aria. Cease to beauty to be suing (Polyphemus)

Aria. Where shall I seek the charming fair (Acis)

Aria. Would you gain the tender creature (Damon)

Recitative. Stay, shepherd, stay (Damon)

Aria. Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (Damon)

Recitative. His hideous love (Acis)

Recitative. Lo! Here my love (Acis)

Aria. Love sounds th'alarm (Acis)

Aria. Consider, fond shepherd (Damon)

Aria. Love in her eyes sits playing (Acis)

Recitative. Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love (Galatea)

Recitative. Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (Galatea)

Aria. As when the dove (Galatea)

Trio. The flocks shall leave (Galatea, Acis, Polyphemus)

Accompagnato. Help, Galatea (Acis)

Duet. Happy we! (Acis, Galatea)

Happy we! (Chorus)

Mourn, all ye muses (Chorus)

Aria. Must I my Acis still bemoan (Galatea, Chorus)

Recitative. 'Tis done (Galatea)

Aria. Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea)

Galatea, dry thy tears (Chorus)