Artaxerxes

Tracklist

• 1
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)

  Thomas Arne
  5:11
• 2
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around” (Mandane, Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  0:29
• 3
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” (Mandane, Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  2:16
• 4
  Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee” (Arbaces, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  1:13
• 5
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  3:21
• 6
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?” (Arbaces, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  0:57
• 7
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  4:38
• 8
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart” (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:26
• 9
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  3:36
• 10
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay” (Semira, Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:29
• 11
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid” (Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  3:26
• 12
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster” (Semira, Rimenes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:29
• 13
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss” (Rimenes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:59
• 14
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  0:36
• 15
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  4:01
• 16
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?” (Tutti)

  Thomas Arne
  3:23
• 17
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:23
• 18
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  0:14
• 19
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  1:27
• 20
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  0:48
• 21
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  4:24
• 22
  Artaxerxes, Act One: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  0:48
• 23
  Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  5:03
• 24
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:38
• 25
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears” (Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  2:12
• 26
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds” (Artabanes, Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  1:28
• 27
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  2:46
• 28
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive” (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  2:05
• 29
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain” (Rimenes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:51
• 30
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain” (Semira, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  1:12
• 31
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  3:00
• 32
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  0:30
• 33
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  2:34
• 34
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire” (Tutti)

  Thomas Arne
  5:00
• 35
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  3:31
• 36
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting” (Mandane, Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:46
• 37
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  2:36
• 38
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira” (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:02
• 39
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:37
• 40
  Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  5:03
• 41
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  2:57
• 42
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n” (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  1:13
• 43
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea” (Arbaces)

  Thomas Arne
  2:19
• 44
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence” (Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:25
• 45
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade” (Artaxerxes)

  Thomas Arne
  3:38
• 46
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?” (Artabanes, Rimenes)

  Thomas Arne
  1:52
• 47
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son” (Rimenes)

  Thomas Arne
  2:15
• 48
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  0:41
• 49
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death” (Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  5:15
• 50
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces” (Mandane, Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  1:34
• 51
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  4:24
• 52
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  0:24
• 53
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief” (Semira)

  Thomas Arne
  4:08
• 54
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes” (Arbaces, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  1:20
• 55
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest” (Arbaces, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  3:37
• 56
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  2:20
• 57
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms” (Mandane)

  Thomas Arne
  3:33
• 58
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  2:25
• 59
  Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live” (Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artabanes)

  Thomas Arne
  3:28

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Release credits

• Andrew Staples
  tenor vocals [6, 8-9, 17, 24, 28, 34, 36, 38-40, 46, 48-49, 56, 58-59]
• Caitlin Hulcup
  mezzo-soprano vocals [2-4, 6-7, 18, 20-21, 26-27, 34-35, 41-43, 54-55, 58-59]
• Christopher Ainslie
  countertenor vocals [8, 10-11, 16, 20, 24-25, 34, 38, 42, 44-45, 56, 58-59]
• Daniel Norman
  tenor vocals [12-13, 20, 28-29, 34, 46-47]
• Debbie Coates
  design
• Elizabeth Watts
  mezzo-soprano vocals [2-5, 16, 20, 22-23, 30-31, 34, 36-37, 50-51, 54-59]
• Ian Page
  liner notes, conductor
• Julia Thomas
  editor
• Philip Hobbs
  engineer, producer
• Rebecca Bottone
  soprano vocals [10, 12, 14-15, 19, 28, 30, 32-34, 38, 50, 52-53, 56, 59]
• Stephen Page
  photography
• The Mozartists
  performing orchestra
• Toucari Live
  design

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  Artaxerxes

  Digital Media
  14 May 2021