Suite from "Il pastor fido", HWV 8c
Il pastor fido ("The Faithful Shepherd") (HWV 8) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was set to a libretto by Giacomo Rossi based on the famed and widely familiar pastoral poem of the Il pastor fido by Giovanni Battista Guarini. It had its first performance on 22 November 1712 at the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
Movements
- Ouverture. Largo - Allegro
- (Ballo)
- (Tambourin)
- Musette
- Menuet
- (Ballo)
- Sarabanda. Largo assai
- Gavotte
- Gigue. Presto
- Chacconne
- Balli. 6. March / 7 Pour les Chasseurs / 6. March da capo