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CD 1 |
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| 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 |
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CD 2 |
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| 1. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) |
5:22 |
| 2. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) |
3:22 |
| 3. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes) |
0:50 |
| 4. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane) |
2:34 |
| 5. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes) |
1:55 |
| 6. |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes) |
3:12 |
| 7. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces) |
3:04 |
| 8. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) |
1:25 |
| 9. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces) |
2:44 |
| 10. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) |
0:22 |
| 11. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes) |
3:42 |
| 12. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) |
2:16 |
| 13. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) |
2:13 |
| 14. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes) |
0:46 |
| 15. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes) |
5:19 |
| 16. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) |
1:25 |
| 17. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane) |
4:16 |
| 18. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira) |
0:26 |
| 19. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira) |
5:00 |
| 20. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) |
1:13 |
| 21. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) |
3:42 |
| 22. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) |
2:36 |
| 23. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) |
3:27 |
| 24. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) |
2:50 |
| 25. |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live |
3:19 |
