Scholars Baroque Ensemble, David van Asch - Handel: Acis and Galatea (1998)

Lovely recording of the Handel work and the players give a brisk and moving sound to the numbers. The cast is light with four singers and only these four make the chorus as well as the characters, which sounds like more of a consort than a opera chorus. Four more singers would have made the chorus stand out better for the opera. Touching plot of simple pastoral lovers threatened by a rival giant. The lamenting chorus with Galatea give much light as she weeps at Acis' tragic loss. And calling it a masque is too small for this fine piece; it is an opera.