Pomona, CA

Artaxerxes

Featuring
Release date January, 1996

Tracklist

1
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 1. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
5:01
2
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces)
0:27
3
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 3. Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces)
2:19
4
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane)
1:18
5
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 5. Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane)
3:07
6
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 6. Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)
1:10
7
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 7. Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces)
4:28
8
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 8. Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)
2:00
9
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 9. Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes)
3:37
10
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)
0:30
11
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 11. Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
3:08
12
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 12. Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)
1:28
13
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 13. Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes)
1:57
14
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 14. Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
0:33
15
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 15. Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira)
3:38
16
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 16. Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)
3:56
17
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 17. Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes)
1:37
18
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces)
0:18
19
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 19. Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira)
1:33
20
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)
0:47
21
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 21. Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces)
4:49
22
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 22. Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane)
0:48
23
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 23. Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane)
5:02
24
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 1. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)
0:40
25
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 2. Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
2:10
26
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 3. Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)
1:31
27
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 4. Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces)
3:01
28
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 5. Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)
2:10
29
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 6. Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes)
1:51
30
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 7. Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
1:15
31
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 8. Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
2:41
32
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 9. Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira)
0:26
33
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 10. Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira)
2:32
34
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)
5:22
35
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
3:22
36
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes)
0:50
37
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane)
2:34
38
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)
1:55
39
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes)
3:12
40
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces)
3:04
41
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)
1:25
42
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
2:44
43
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
0:22
44
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
3:42
45
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)
2:16
46
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
2:13
47
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
0:46
48
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes)
5:19
49
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)
1:25
50
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane)
4:16
51
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira)
0:26
52
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira)
5:00
53
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)
1:13
54
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)
3:42
55
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)
2:36
56
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
3:27
57
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)
2:50
58
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live
3:19

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