Arne: Artaxerxes

The Mozartists & Ian Page

2021-05-14 • Orchestral

Tracklist

• 1
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Overture
  5:12
• 2
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around”
  0:29
• 3
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay”
  2:17
• 4
  Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee”
  1:13
• 5
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth”
  3:22
• 6
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?”
  0:57
• 7
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes”
  4:39
• 8
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart”
  1:27
• 9
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand”
  3:37
• 10
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay”
  0:30
• 11
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid”
  3:26
• 12
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster”
  1:29
• 13
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss”
  1:60
• 14
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire”
  0:36
• 15
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate”
  4:01
• 16
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?”
  3:24
• 17
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim”
  1:24
• 18
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed”
  0:15
• 19
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence”
  1:27
• 20
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me”
  0:48
• 21
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind”
  4:25
• 22
  Artaxerxes, Act I: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade”
  0:49
• 23
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly”
  5:03
• 24
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower”
  0:38
• 25
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears”
  2:12
• 26
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds”
  1:28
• 27
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)
  2:46
• 28
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive”
  2:05
• 29
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain”
  1:52
• 30
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain”
  1:13
• 31
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love”
  3:01
• 32
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?”
  0:31
• 33
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves”
  2:34
• 34
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire”
  5:01
• 35
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace”
  3:31
• 36
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting”
  0:46
• 37
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away”
  2:36
• 38
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira”
  1:02
• 39
  Artaxerxes, Act II: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room”
  0:38
• 40
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun”
  5:03
• 41
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late”
  2:58
• 42
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n”
  1:14
• 43
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea”
  2:20
• 44
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence”
  0:26
• 45
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade”
  3:38
• 46
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?”
  1:52
• 47
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son”
  2:15
• 48
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!”
  0:41
• 49
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death”
  5:16
• 50
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces”
  1:34
• 51
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing”
  4:25
• 52
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought”
  0:24
• 53
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief”
  4:08
• 54
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes”
  1:21
• 55
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest”
  3:38
• 56
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d”
  2:21
• 57
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms”
  3:33
• 58
  Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet”
  2:26
• 59
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live”
  3:28