Music →Thomas Augustine Arne - Arne Artaxerxes

Tracklist:

01. Thomas Augustine Arne - Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta (05:11)
02. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Still silence reigns around" (Mandane, Arbaces) (00:29)
03. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 1 Duettino "Fair Aurora, prithee stay" (Mandane, Arbaces) (02:16)
04. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Alas, thou know'st That for my love to thee" (Arbaces, Mandane) (01:13)
05. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 2 Air "Adieu, thou lovely youth" (Mandane) (03:21)
06. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "O cruel parting! How can I survive?" (Arbaces, Artabanes) (00:57)
07. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 3 Air "Amid a thousand racking woes" (Arbaces) (04:38)
08. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Be firm, my heart" (Artabanes, Artaxerxes) (01:26)
09. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 4 Air "Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand" (Artabanes) (03:36)
10. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Stay, Artaxerxes, stay" (Semira, Artaxerxes) (00:29)
11. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 5 Air "Fair Semira, lovely maid" (Artaxerxes) (03:26)
12. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "I fear some dread disaster" (Semira, Rimenes) (01:29)
13. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 6 Air "When real joy we miss" (Rimenes) (01:59)
14. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire" (Semira) (00:36)
15. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 7 Air "How hard Is the fate" (Semira) (04:01)
16. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Whither do I fly?" (Tutti) (03:23)
17. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 8 Air "Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim" (Artabanes) (01:23)
18. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed" (Arbaces) (00:14)
19. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 9 Air "Acquit thee of This foul offence" (Semira) (01:27)
20. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Appearance, I must own, Is strong against me" (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane) (00:48)
21. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 10 Air "O too lovely, too unkind" (Arbaces) (04:24)
22. Thomas Augustine Arne - Accompanied Recitative "Dear and beloved shade" (Mandane) (00:48)
23. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 11 Air "Fly, soft ideas, fly" (Mandane) (05:03)
24. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Guards, speed ye to the tower" (Artaxerxes, Artabanes) (00:38)
25. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 12 Air "In infancy, our hopes and fears" (Artaxerxes) (02:12)
26. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "So far my great resolve succeeds" (Artabanes, Arbaces) (01:28)
27. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 13 Air "Disdainful you fly me" (Arbaces) (02:46)
28. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Why, my dear friend, so pensive" (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira) (02:05)
29. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 14 Air "To sigh and complain" (Rimenes) (01:51)
30. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "How many links to dire misfortune's chain" (Semira, Mandane) (01:12)
31. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 15 Air "If o'er the cruel tyrant love" (Mandane) (03:00)
32. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?" (Semira) (00:30)
33. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 16 Air "If the river's swelling waves" (Semira) (02:34)
34. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire" (Tutti) (05:00)
35. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 17 Air "By That belov'd embrace" (Arbaces) (03:31)
36. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Ah me, at poor Arbaces' parting" (Mandane, Artabanes) (00:46)
37. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 18 Air "Monster, away" (Mandane) (02:36)
38. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "See, lov'd Semira" (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes) (01:02)
39. Thomas Augustine Arne - Accompanied Recitative "At last my soul has room" (Artabanes) (00:37)
40. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 19 Air "Thou, like the glorious sun" (Artabanes) (05:03)
41. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 20 Air "Why is death for ever late" (Arbaces) (02:57)
42. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Arbaces! Gracious Heav'n" (Artaxerxes, Arbaces) (01:13)
43. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 21 Air "Water parted from the sea" (Arbaces) (02:19)
44. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "That face, secure in conscious innocence" (Artaxerxes) (00:25)
45. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 22 Air "Though oft a cloud with envious shade" (Artaxerxes) (03:38)
46. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "My son, Arbaces... Where art thou retir'd?" (Artabanes, Rimenes) (01:52)
47. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 23 Air "O let the danger of a son" (Rimenes) (02:15)
48. Thomas Augustine Arne - Accompanied Recitative "Ye adverse Gods!" (Artabanes) (00:41)
49. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 24 Air "O, much lov'd son, If death" (Artabanes) (05:15)
50. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces" (Mandane, Semira) (01:34)
51. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 25 Air "Let not rage, thy bosom firing" (Mandane) (04:24)
52. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought" (Semira) (00:24)
53. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 26 Air "'Tis not true That in our grief" (Semira) (04:08)
54. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Nor here my searching eyes" (Arbaces, Mandane) (01:20)
55. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 27 Duetto "For thee I live, my dearest" (Arbaces, Mandane) (03:37)
56. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "To you, my people, much belov'd" (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane) (02:20)
57. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 28 Air "The soldier, tir'd of war's alarms" (Mandane) (03:33)
58. Thomas Augustine Arne - Recitative "Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet" (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes) (02:25)
59. Thomas Augustine Arne - No. 29 Finale "Live to us, to Empire live" (Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Artabanes) (03:28)