CD1 |
1. Overture: Poco piu che andante; Larghetto; Gavotta | not rated | 5:06 |
2. Act I - Recitative: Still silence reigns around | not rated | 0:28 |
3. - Duettino (Mandane, Arbaces): Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay | not rated | 2:18 |
4. - Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee | not rated | 1:17 |
5. - Air (Mandane): Adieu, thou lovely Youth | not rated | 3:07 |
6. - Recitative: O cruel parting! | not rated | 1:09 |
7. - Air (Arbaces): Amid a thousand racking Woes | not rated | 4:28 |
8. - Recitative: Be firm my Heart | not rated | 2:00 |
9. - Air (Artabanes): Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand | not rated | 3:36 |
10. - Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay | not rated | 0:30 |
11. - Air (Artaxerxes): Fair Semira, lovely Maid | not rated | 3:07 |
12. - Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster | not rated | 1:28 |
13. - Air (Rimenes): When real Joys we miss | not rated | 1:57 |
14. - Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire | not rated | 0:33 |
15. - Air (Semira): How hard is the Fate | not rated | 3:38 |
16. - Recitative: Where do I fly? | not rated | 3:55 |
17. - Air (Artabanes): Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim | not rated | 1:37 |
18. - Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? | not rated | 0:18 |
19. - Air (Semira): Acquit thee of this foul Offence | not rated | 1:32 |
20. - Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me | not rated | 0:47 |
21. - Air (Arbaces): O too lovely, too unkind | not rated | 4:48 |
22. - Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father | not rated | 0:47 |
23. - Air (Mandane): Fly, soft Ideas, fly | not rated | 5:19 |
24. Act II - Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower | not rated | 0:40 |
25. - Air (Artaxerxes): In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears | not rated | 2:09 |
26. - Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds | not rated | 1:31 |
27. - Air (Arbaces): Disdainful you fly me | not rated | 2:59 |
28. - Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? | not rated | 2:10 |
29. - Air (Rimenes): To sigh and complain | not rated | 1:51 |
30. - Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! | not rated | 1:13 |
31. - Air (Mandane): If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love | not rated | 2:41 |
32. - Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? | not rated | 0:26 |
33. - Air (Semira): If the River's swelling Waves | not rated | 2:44 |
| 1:12:25 |
CD2 |
1. Act II (cont.) - Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire | not rated | 5:26 |
2. - Air (Arbaces): By that belov'd Embrace | not rated | 3:22 |
3. - Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting | not rated | 0:49 |
4. - Air (Mandane): Monster, away! | not rated | 2:34 |
5. - Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! | not rated | 1:54 |
6. - Air (Artabanes): Thou, like the glorious Sun | not rated | 3:24 |
7. Act III - Arietta (Arbaces): Why is Death for ever late | not rated | 3:04 |
8. - Recitative: Arbaces! | not rated | 1:25 |
9. - Air (Arbaces): Water parted from the Sea | not rated | 2:43 |
10. - Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence | not rated | 0:22 |
11. - Air (Artaxerxes): Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade | not rated | 3:46 |
12. - Recitative: My Son, Arbaces--where art thou retir'd? | not rated | 2:16 |
13. - Air (Rimenes): O let the Danger of a Son | not rated | 2:12 |
14. - Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! | not rated | 0:45 |
15. - Air (Artabanes): O, much lov'd Son, if Death | not rated | 5:19 |
16. - Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces | not rated | 1:25 |
17. - Air (Mandane): Let not Rage thy Bosom firing | not rated | 4:16 |
18. - Recitative: What have I done! Alas, I vainly thought | not rated | 0:26 |
19. - Air (Semira): 'Tis not true, that in our Grief | not rated | 4:59 |
20. - Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane | not rated | 1:13 |
21. - Duetto (Arbaces, Mandane): For thee I live, my Dearest | not rated | 3:42 |
22. - Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer | not rated | 2:36 |
23. - Air (Mandane): The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms | not rated | 3:26 |
24. - Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet | not rated | 2:49 |
25. - Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live | not rated | 3:29 |
| 1:07:54 |
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