Artaxerxes

Album by Thomas Arne; Classical Opera Company, Ian Page

Released 24 January 2011

baroque classical opera

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Tracklist

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

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Release credits

Classical Opera Company
performer
Ian Page
conductor

Issues

A
Artaxerxes
2x Digital Media
24 January 2011