Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

1. 1
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Overture. Poco pi che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
   5:01
2. 2
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Recit. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane/Arbaces)
   0:27
3. 3
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane/Arbaces)
   2:19
4. 4
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Recit. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces/Mandane)
   1:18
5. 5
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane)
   3:07
6. 6
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Recit. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)
   1:10
7. 7
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces)
   4:28
8. 8
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)
   2:00
9. 9
   Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes)
   3:37
10. 10
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Recit. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)
    0:30
11. 11
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
    3:08
12. 12
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 12, Recit. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)
    1:28
13. 13
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 13, Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes)
    1:57
14. 14
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
    0:33
15. 15
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira)
    3:38
16. 16
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 16, Recit. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)
    3:56
17. 17
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 17, Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes)
    1:37
18. 18
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 18, Recit. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces)
    0:18
19. 19
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 19, Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira)
    1:33
20. 20
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)
    0:47
21. 21
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 21, Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces)
    4:49
22. 22
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Dear and Beloved Shade of My Dead Father (Mandane)
    0:48
23. 23
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 23, Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane)
    5:19
24. 24
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 1, Recit. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)
    0:40
25. 25
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 2, Air. In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
    2:10
26. 26
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)
    1:31
27. 27
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces)
    3:01
28. 28
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)
    2:10
29. 29
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes)
    1:51
30. 30
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
    1:15
31. 31
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
    2:41
32. 32
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira)
    0:26
33. 33
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira)
    2:44
34. 34
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)
    5:22
35. 35
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
    3:22
36. 36
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes)
    0:50
37. 37
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane)
    2:34
38. 38
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)
    1:55
39. 39
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes)
    3:24
40. 40
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces)
    3:04
41. 41
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)
    1:25
42. 42
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
    2:44
43. 43
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
    0:22
44. 44
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
    3:42
45. 45
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)
    2:16
46. 46
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
    2:13
47. 47
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
    0:46
48. 48
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes)
    5:19
49. 49
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)
    1:25
50. 50
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane)
    4:16
51. 51
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira)
    0:26
52. 52
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira)
    5:00
53. 53
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)
    1:13
54. 54
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)
    3:42
55. 55
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)
    2:36
56. 56
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
    3:27
57. 57
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)
    2:50
58. 58
    Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live
    3:29

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