Artist: Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Album: Acis and Galatea (Original Cannons Performing Version 1718)
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2008
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 88,2 kHz
Duration: 01:35:13
Total Tracks: 29
Total Size: 1,72 GB

Tracklist:

1. Dunedin Consort – Sinfonia (03:11)
2. Dunedin Consort – Chorus: Oh, the pleasure of the plains! (06:13)
3. Dunedin Consort – Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains (00:45)
4. Dunedin Consort – Air: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (06:17)
5. Dunedin Consort – Air: Where shall I seek the charming fair? (03:05)
6. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: Stay, shepherd, stay! (00:23)
7. Dunedin Consort – Air: Shepherd, what art thou pursuing? (04:10)
8. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: Lo, here my love (00:30)
9. Dunedin Consort – Air: Love in her eyes sits playing (06:50)
10. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: Oh, didst thou know the pains of absent love (00:16)
11. Dunedin Consort – Air: As when the dove laments her love (06:58)
12. Dunedin Consort – Duet: Happy we! (02:34)
13. Dunedin Consort – Chorus: Wretched lovers! (04:24)
14. Dunedin Consort – Accompagnato: I rage — I melt — I burn! (01:27)
15. Dunedin Consort – Air: O ruddier than the cherry (03:16)
16. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: Whither, fairest, art thou running (01:11)
17. Dunedin Consort – Air: Cease to beauty to be suing (05:24)
18. Dunedin Consort – Air: Would you gain the tender creature (05:42)
19. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: His hideous love provokes my rage (00:21)
20. Dunedin Consort – Air: Love sounds th’alarm (04:50)
21. Dunedin Consort – Air: Consider, fond shepherd (06:41)
22. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth (00:25)
23. Dunedin Consort – Trio: The flocks shall leave the mountains (03:03)
24. Dunedin Consort – Accompagnato: Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods! (01:30)
25. Dunedin Consort – Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses! (03:43)
26. Dunedin Consort – Solo & Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan (04:13)
27. Dunedin Consort – Recitative: ‘Tis done! Thus I exert my pow’r divine (00:18)
28. Dunedin Consort – Air: Heart, the seat of soft delight (04:02)
29. Dunedin Consort – Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears (03:18)

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The second Handel recording from the award-winning Dunedin Consort is a revelation. The album was a Finalist in the Baroque Vocal category in the 2009 Gramophone Awards.From former Bay Area early music specialist John Butt and the authentic instrument Dunedin Consort & Players of England comes Handel’s Original Cannons Performing Version of 1718 (Linn Records). Physically available as a high-resolution SACD (super a compact disc) that will yield multichannel sound on systems so equipped, and state-of-the-art stereo on the rest, this absolutely delicious, irresistible performance also exists as a high-resolution music file downloadable from the label’s Web site. Sung in English, with a one-person-to-a-line chorus composed of Handel’s five soloists, it purports to reflect the latest research into the scoring that the composer used at the premiere at the palace of Cannons in Middlesex, the country estate of the Duke of Chandos, near London. By referencing a surviving manuscript from a copyist who helped prepare many of Handel’s performing scores, Butt deviates from the supposedly latest authoritative edition to change orchestration and instrumentation when he believes that Handel did the same.