W.A.Mozart - Acis und Galatea (from Handel)
21 tracks | MP3 192 Kbps | 2 RAR (84+89Mb)
This is the reorchestrated, German-language version of Handel's ''Acis and Galatea,'' done in 1788 for Baron von Swieten, a music patron who had fallen in love with Baroque music. In its original form, in English and lightly scored, Handel's delectable work has long been a concert and theater staple. However, Mozart's expertly crafted revision adds a bassoon as well as pairs of flutes, clarinets and horns, which adds to the orchestra's sonority and palette of colors but also subtly changes the character of the music.