Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus, Vol. 33)

Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence, Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippa Hyde, The Parley of Instruments & Roy Goodman

1996-01-01 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
  5:07
• 2
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Recit. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane, Arbaces)
  0:28
• 3
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane, Arbaces)
  2:19
• 4
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Recit. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces, Mandane)
  1:18
• 5
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane)
  3:08
• 6
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Recit. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces, Artabanes)
  1:10
• 7
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces)
  4:28
• 8
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)
  2:00
• 9
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes)
  3:37
• 10
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Recit. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira, Artaxerxes)
  0:30
• 11
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
  3:07
• 12
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 12, Recit. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira, Rimenes)
  1:28
• 13
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 13, Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes)
  1:57
• 14
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
  0:33
• 15
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira)
  3:39
• 16
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 16, Recit. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane, Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Rimenes, Arbaces)
  3:56
• 17
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 17, Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes)
  1:38
• 18
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 18, Recit. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces)
  0:18
• 19
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 19, Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira)
  1:32
• 20
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)
  0:48
• 21
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 21, Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces)
  4:49
• 22
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Dear and Beloved Shade of My Dead Father (Mandane)
  0:47
• 23
  Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 23, Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane)
  5:20
• 24
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 1, Recit. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
  0:40
• 25
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 2, Air. in Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
  2:10
• 26
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes, Arbaces)
  1:32
• 27
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces)
  2:60
• 28
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)
  2:11
• 29
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes)
  1:51
• 30
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira, Mandane)
  1:14
• 31
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
  2:41
• 32
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira)
  0:26
• 33
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira)
  2:45
• 1
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes, Rimenes, Semira, Arbaces)
  5:27
• 2
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
  3:22
• 3
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane, Artabanes)
  0:50
• 4
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane)
  2:34
• 5
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)
  1:55
• 6
  Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes)
  3:24
• 7
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces)
  3:04
• 8
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)
  1:26
• 9
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
  2:44
• 10
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
  0:22
• 11
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
  3:46
• 12
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes, Rimenes)
  2:16
• 13
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
  2:13
• 14
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
  0:46
• 15
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes)
  5:19
• 16
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane, Semira)
  1:25
• 17
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane)
  4:17
• 18
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira)
  0:26
• 19
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira)
  4:60
• 20
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces, Mandane)
  1:13
• 21
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces, Mandane)
  3:42
• 22
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)
  2:37
• 23
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
  3:27
• 24
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)
  2:50
• 25
  Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live
  3:30