Thomas Augustine Arne, Thomas Augustine Arne
Artaxerxes

Thomas Augustine Arne - Artaxerxes

  • Release date: 2009
  • Category: Early Classical
  • Duration: 2:20:19
  • not rated
  • Added October 8, 2010
  • Played October 9, 2010

Tracks

CD1
1. Overture: Poco piu che andante; Larghetto; Gavottanot rated5:06
2. Act I - Recitative: Still silence reigns aroundnot rated0:28
3. - Duettino (Mandane, Arbaces): Fair Aurora, pr'ythee staynot rated2:18
4. - Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of theenot rated1:17
5. - Air (Mandane): Adieu, thou lovely Youthnot rated3:07
6. - Recitative: O cruel parting!not rated1:09
7. - Air (Arbaces): Amid a thousand racking Woesnot rated4:28
8. - Recitative: Be firm my Heartnot rated2:00
9. - Air (Artabanes): Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strandnot rated3:36
10. - Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, staynot rated0:30
11. - Air (Artaxerxes): Fair Semira, lovely Maidnot rated3:07
12. - Recitative: I fear some dread Disasternot rated1:28
13. - Air (Rimenes): When real Joys we missnot rated1:57
14. - Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empirenot rated0:33
15. - Air (Semira): How hard is the Fatenot rated3:38
16. - Recitative: Where do I fly?not rated3:55
17. - Air (Artabanes): Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claimnot rated1:37
18. - Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed?not rated0:18
19. - Air (Semira): Acquit thee of this foul Offencenot rated1:32
20. - Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against menot rated0:47
21. - Air (Arbaces): O too lovely, too unkindnot rated4:48
22. - Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Fathernot rated0:47
23. - Air (Mandane): Fly, soft Ideas, flynot rated5:19
24. Act II - Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Towernot rated0:40
25. - Air (Artaxerxes): In Infancy, our Hopes and Fearsnot rated2:09
26. - Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeedsnot rated1:31
27. - Air (Arbaces): Disdainful you fly menot rated2:59
28. - Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive?not rated2:10
29. - Air (Rimenes): To sigh and complainnot rated1:51
30. - Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain!not rated1:13
31. - Air (Mandane): If o'er the cruel Tyrant Lovenot rated2:41
32. - Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose?not rated0:26
33. - Air (Semira): If the River's swelling Wavesnot rated2:44
1:12:25
CD2
1. Act II (cont.) - Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empirenot rated5:26
2. - Air (Arbaces): By that belov'd Embracenot rated3:22
3. - Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces partingnot rated0:49
4. - Air (Mandane): Monster, away!not rated2:34
5. - Recitative: See, lov'd Semira!not rated1:54
6. - Air (Artabanes): Thou, like the glorious Sunnot rated3:24
7. Act III - Arietta (Arbaces): Why is Death for ever latenot rated3:04
8. - Recitative: Arbaces!not rated1:25
9. - Air (Arbaces): Water parted from the Seanot rated2:43
10. - Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocencenot rated0:22
11. - Air (Artaxerxes): Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shadenot rated3:46
12. - Recitative: My Son, Arbaces--where art thou retir'd?not rated2:16
13. - Air (Rimenes): O let the Danger of a Sonnot rated2:12
14. - Recitative: Ye adverse Gods!not rated0:45
15. - Air (Artabanes): O, much lov'd Son, if Deathnot rated5:19
16. - Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbacesnot rated1:25
17. - Air (Mandane): Let not Rage thy Bosom firingnot rated4:16
18. - Recitative: What have I done! Alas, I vainly thoughtnot rated0:26
19. - Air (Semira): 'Tis not true, that in our Griefnot rated4:59
20. - Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandanenot rated1:13
21. - Duetto (Arbaces, Mandane): For thee I live, my Dearestnot rated3:42
22. - Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offernot rated2:36
23. - Air (Mandane): The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarmsnot rated3:26
24. - Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feetnot rated2:49
25. - Chorus: Live to us, to Empire livenot rated3:29
1:07:54

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