Artaxerxes

by Thomas Arne; The Mozartists, Ian Page

Tracklist

  1. Artaxerxes, Act One: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)5:11
  2. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around” (Mandane, Arbaces)0:29
  3. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” (Mandane, Arbaces)2:16
  4. Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee” (Arbaces, Mandane)1:13
  5. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth” (Mandane)3:21
  6. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?” (Arbaces, Mandane)0:57
  7. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes” (Arbaces)4:38
  8. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart” (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)1:26
  9. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand” (Artabanes)3:36
  10. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay” (Semira, Artaxerxes)0:29
  11. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid” (Artaxerxes)3:26
  12. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster” (Semira, Rimenes)1:29
  13. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss” (Rimenes)1:59
  14. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire” (Semira)0:36
  15. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate” (Semira)4:01
  16. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?” (Tutti)3:23
  17. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim” (Artabanes)1:23
  18. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed” (Arbaces)0:14
  19. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence” (Semira)1:27
  20. Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)0:48
  21. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind” (Arbaces)4:24
  22. Artaxerxes, Act One: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade” (Mandane)0:48
  23. Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly” (Mandane)5:03
  24. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)0:38
  25. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears” (Artaxerxes)2:12
  26. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds” (Artabanes, Arbaces)1:28
  27. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)2:46
  28. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive” (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)2:05
  29. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain” (Rimenes)1:51
  30. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain” (Semira, Mandane)1:12
  31. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love” (Mandane)3:00
  32. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?” (Semira)0:30
  33. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves” (Semira)2:34
  34. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire” (Tutti)5:00
  35. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace” (Arbaces)3:31
  36. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting” (Mandane, Artabanes)0:46
  37. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away” (Mandane)2:36
  38. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira” (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)1:02
  39. Artaxerxes, Act Two: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room” (Artabanes)0:37
  40. Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun” (Artabanes)5:03
  41. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late” (Arbaces)2:57
  42. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n” (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)1:13
  43. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea” (Arbaces)2:19
  44. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence” (Artaxerxes)0:25
  45. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade” (Artaxerxes)3:38
  46. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?” (Artabanes, Rimenes)1:52
  47. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son” (Rimenes)2:15
  48. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!” (Artabanes)0:41
  49. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death” (Artabanes)5:15
  50. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces” (Mandane, Semira)1:34
  51. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing” (Mandane)4:24
  52. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought” (Semira)0:24
  53. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief” (Semira)4:08
  54. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes” (Arbaces, Mandane)1:20
  55. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest” (Arbaces, Mandane)3:37
  56. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)2:20
  57. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms” (Mandane)3:33
  58. Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)2:25
  59. Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live” (Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artabanes)3:28