Artaxerxes
19960199
Labels: Hyperion
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Disc1
| 1 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 1. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta | Thomas Arne | 5:01 |
| 2 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 0:27 |
| 3 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 3. Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 2:19 |
| 4 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 1:18 |
| 5 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 5. Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 3:07 |
| 6 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 6. Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 1:10 |
| 7 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 7. Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 4:28 |
| 8 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 8. Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 2:00 |
| 9 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 9. Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 3:37 |
| 10 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 0:30 |
| 11 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 11. Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 3:08 |
| 12 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 12. Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes) | Thomas Arne | 1:28 |
| 13 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 13. Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes) | Thomas Arne | 1:57 |
| 14 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 14. Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 0:33 |
| 15 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 15. Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 3:38 |
| 16 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 16. Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 3:56 |
| 17 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 17. Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 1:37 |
| 18 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 0:18 |
| 19 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 19. Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 1:33 |
| 20 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 0:47 |
| 21 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 21. Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 4:49 |
| 22 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 22. Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 0:48 |
| 23 | Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 23. Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 5:02 |
| 24 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 1. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 0:40 |
| 25 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 2. Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 2:10 |
| 26 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 3. Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 1:31 |
| 27 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 4. Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 3:01 |
| 28 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 5. Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira) | Thomas Arne | 2:10 |
| 29 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 6. Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes) | Thomas Arne | 1:51 |
| 30 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 7. Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 1:15 |
| 31 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 8. Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 2:41 |
| 32 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 9. Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 0:26 |
| 33 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 10. Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 2:32 |
Disc2
| 1 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 5:22 |
| 2 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 3:22 |
| 3 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 0:50 |
| 4 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 2:34 |
| 5 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 1:55 |
| 6 | Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 3:12 |
| 7 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 3:04 |
| 8 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 1:25 |
| 9 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces) | Thomas Arne | 2:44 |
| 10 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 0:22 |
| 11 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes) | Thomas Arne | 3:42 |
| 12 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) | Thomas Arne | 2:16 |
| 13 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) | Thomas Arne | 2:13 |
| 14 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 0:46 |
| 15 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 5:19 |
| 16 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) | Thomas Arne | 1:25 |
| 17 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 4:16 |
| 18 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 0:26 |
| 19 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira) | Thomas Arne | 5:00 |
| 20 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 1:13 |
| 21 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 3:42 |
| 22 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 2:36 |
| 23 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) | Thomas Arne | 3:27 |
| 24 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) | Thomas Arne | 2:50 |
| 25 | Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live | Thomas Arne | 3:19 |