Artaxerxes

Album by Thomas Arne & The Mozartists & Ian Page

Artaxerxes is an opera by English composer Thomas Arne, first performed in 1762. The work is in the style of 18th-century English opera, with expressive arias and orchestral writing, and it influenced the development of the English operatic repertoire.
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  1. 1.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)
    5:11
  2. 2.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around” (Mandane, Arbaces)
    0:29
  3. 3.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” (Mandane, Arbaces)
    2:16
  4. 4.
    Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee” (Arbaces, Mandane)
    1:13
  5. 5.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth” (Mandane)
    3:21
  6. 6.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?” (Arbaces, Mandane)
    0:57
  7. 7.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes” (Arbaces)
    4:38
  8. 8.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart” (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)
    1:26
  9. 9.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand” (Artabanes)
    3:36
  10. 10.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay” (Semira, Artaxerxes)
    0:29
  11. 11.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid” (Artaxerxes)
    3:26
  12. 12.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster” (Semira, Rimenes)
    1:29
  13. 13.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss” (Rimenes)
    1:59
  14. 14.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire” (Semira)
    0:36
  15. 15.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate” (Semira)
    4:01
  16. 16.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?” (Tutti)
    3:23
  17. 17.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim” (Artabanes)
    1:23
  18. 18.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed” (Arbaces)
    0:14
  19. 19.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence” (Semira)
    1:27
  20. 20.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)
    0:48
  21. 21.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind” (Arbaces)
    4:24
  22. 22.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade” (Mandane)
    0:48
  23. 23.
    Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly” (Mandane)
    5:03
  24. 24.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
    0:38
  25. 25.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears” (Artaxerxes)
    2:12
  26. 26.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds” (Artabanes, Arbaces)
    1:28
  27. 27.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)
    2:46
  28. 28.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive” (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)
    2:05
  29. 29.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain” (Rimenes)
    1:51
  30. 30.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain” (Semira, Mandane)
    1:12
  31. 31.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love” (Mandane)
    3:00
  32. 32.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?” (Semira)
    0:30
  33. 33.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves” (Semira)
    2:34
  34. 34.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire” (Tutti)
    5:00
  35. 35.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace” (Arbaces)
    3:31
  36. 36.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting” (Mandane, Artabanes)
    0:46
  37. 37.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away” (Mandane)
    2:36
  38. 38.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira” (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)
    1:02
  39. 39.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room” (Artabanes)
    0:37
  40. 40.
    Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun” (Artabanes)
    5:03
  41. 41.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late” (Arbaces)
    2:57
  42. 42.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n” (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)
    1:13
  43. 43.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea” (Arbaces)
    2:19
  44. 44.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence” (Artaxerxes)
    0:25
  45. 45.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade” (Artaxerxes)
    3:38
  46. 46.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?” (Artabanes, Rimenes)
    1:52
  47. 47.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son” (Rimenes)
    2:15
  48. 48.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!” (Artabanes)
    0:41
  49. 49.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death” (Artabanes)
    5:15
  50. 50.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces” (Mandane, Semira)
    1:34
  51. 51.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing” (Mandane)
    4:24
  52. 52.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought” (Semira)
    0:24
  53. 53.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief” (Semira)
    4:08
  54. 54.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes” (Arbaces, Mandane)
    1:20
  55. 55.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest” (Arbaces, Mandane)
    3:37
  56. 56.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)
    2:20
  57. 57.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms” (Mandane)
    3:33
  58. 58.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)
    2:25
  59. 59.
    Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live” (Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artabanes)
    3:28

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