Thomas Arne

Artaxerxes

Featuring
Release date January 24, 2011

Tracklist

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