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