Having successfully recorded Handel’s Acis and Galatea in its original Cannons performing version back in 2008, we are delighted to be giving two performances of the work in France this summer, at the Les Traversées festival in the beautiful Noirlac Abbey. The story is disarmingly simple: the nymph Galatea loves the shepherd Acis and he loves her. After an agonizingly protracted separation, they find each other and anticipate everlasting bliss. The giant, Polyphemus (the personification