| Side 1
1. Sinfonia(Presto) 2. Chorus: Oh, the pleasure of the plains 3. Accompagnato(Galatea):Ye verdant plains 4. Air(Glalatea): Hush, ye pretty warbling quire 5. Air(Acis): Where shall I seek the charming fair
Side 2
Recitative(Damon): Stay, Shepherd, stay 1. Air(Damon): Shepherd, what art thou pursuing Recitative(Acis): Lo! here my love 2. Air(Acis): Love in her eyes sits playing Recitative(Galatea): Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love 3. Air(Galatea): As when the dove 4. Duet(Galatea, Acis): Happy we |
Side 3
1. Chorus: Wretched lovers
2. Accompagnato(Polyphemus): I rage
3. Air(Polyphemus): O ruddier than the cherry
Recitative(Polyphemus, Galatea): Whither, fairest, art thou running)
4. Air(Polyphemus): Cease to beauty to be suing
5. Air(Damon): Would you gain the tender creature
Recitative(Acis): His hideous love
6. Air(Acis): Love sounds th'alarm
Side 4
1. Air(Damon): Consider, fond shepherd
Recitative(Galatea): Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth
2. Trio(Galateam Acis, Pilyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountains
3. Accompagnato(Acis): help, Galatea
4. Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses
5. Galatea, Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan
Recitative(Galatea): 'Tis done
6. Air(Galatea): Heart, the seat of soft delight
7. Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears
Norma Burrowes, Galatea
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Acis
Martyn Hill, Damon
Willard White, Polyphemus
Ensembles: Norma Burrowes, Paul Elliott, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Martin Hill, Willaed White
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner