Artaxerxes

Thomas Arne; Classical Opera Company, Ian Page · 2011 · Album

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Tracklist

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

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