Artaxerxes

Album by Thomas Arne & Catherine Bott & Patricia Spence & Christopher Robson & Ian Partridge & Richard Edgar‐Wilson & Philippa Hyde & The Parley of Instruments & Roy Goodman

Artaxerxes is an opera by English composer Thomas Arne, first performed in 1762. The work sits within the mid-18th-century English opera tradition, combining Italianate opera seria influences with English vocal writing and orchestral accompaniment and illustrating Arne's contribution to English stage music.
First released: January 1996

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 1. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
    5:01
  2. 2.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)
    5:22
  3. 3.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces)
    0:27
  4. 4.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
    3:22
  5. 5.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes)
    0:50
  6. 6.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 3. Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces)
    2:19
  7. 7.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane)
    1:18
  8. 8.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane)
    2:34
  9. 9.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 5. Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane)
    3:07
  10. 10.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)
    1:55
  11. 11.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 6. Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)
    1:10
  12. 12.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes)
    3:12
  13. 13.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 7. Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces)
    4:28
  14. 14.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces)
    3:04
  15. 15.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)
    1:25
  16. 16.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 8. Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)
    2:00
  17. 17.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
    2:44
  18. 18.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 9. Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes)
    3:37
  19. 19.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)
    0:30
  20. 20.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
    0:22
  21. 21.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 11. Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
    3:08
  22. 22.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
    3:42
  23. 23.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)
    2:16
  24. 24.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 12. Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)
    1:28
  25. 25.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
    2:13
  26. 26.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 13. Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes)
    1:57
  27. 27.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 14. Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
    0:33
  28. 28.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
    0:46
  29. 29.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes)
    5:19
  30. 30.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 15. Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira)
    3:38
  31. 31.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)
    1:25
  32. 32.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 16. Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)
    3:56
  33. 33.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 17. Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes)
    1:37
  34. 34.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane)
    4:16
  35. 35.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira)
    0:26
  36. 36.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces)
    0:18
  37. 37.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 19. Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira)
    1:33
  38. 38.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira)
    5:00
  39. 39.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)
    0:47
  40. 40.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)
    1:13
  41. 41.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 21. Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces)
    4:49
  42. 42.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)
    3:42
  43. 43.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)
    2:36
  44. 44.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 22. Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane)
    0:48
  45. 45.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
    3:27
  46. 46.
    Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 23. Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane)
    5:02
  47. 47.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)
    2:50
  48. 48.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 1. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)
    0:40
  49. 49.
    Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live
    3:19
  50. 50.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 2. Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
    2:10
  51. 51.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 3. Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)
    1:31
  52. 52.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 4. Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces)
    3:01
  53. 53.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 5. Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)
    2:10
  54. 54.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 6. Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes)
    1:51
  55. 55.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 7. Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
    1:15
  56. 56.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 8. Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
    2:41
  57. 57.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 9. Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira)
    0:26
  58. 58.
    Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 10. Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira)
    2:32

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