Artaxerxes
Ian Page, The Mozartists, Christopher Ainslie (Countertenor), Elizabeth Watts (Soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (Mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (Tenor), Rebecca Bottone (Soprano), Daniel Norman (Tenor)
℗ 2021
Act I
- 05:12Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
- 00:29Recitative “Still silence reigns around” (Mandane, Arbaces)
- 02:17No. 1 Duettino “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” (Mandane, Arbaces)
- 01:13Recitative “Alas, thou know’st That for my love to thee” (Arbaces, Mandane)
- 03:22No. 2 Air “Adieu, thou lovely youth” (Mandane)
- 00:57Recitative “O cruel parting! How can I survive?” (Arbaces, Artabanes)
- 04:39No. 3 Air “Amid a thousand racking woes” (Arbaces)
- 01:27Recitative “Be firm, my heart” (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)
- 03:37No. 4 Air “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand” (Artabanes)
- 00:30Recitative “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay” (Semira, Artaxerxes)
- 03:26No. 5 Air “Fair Semira, lovely maid” (Artaxerxes)
- 01:29Recitative “I fear some dread disaster” (Semira, Rimenes)
- 02:00No. 6 Air “When real joy we miss” (Rimenes)
- 00:36Recitative “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire” (Semira)
- 04:01No. 7 Air “How hard Is the fate” (Semira)
- 03:24Recitative “Whither do I fly?” (Tutti)
- 01:24No. 8 Air “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim” (Artabanes)
- 00:15Recitative “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed” (Arbaces)
- 01:27No. 9 Air “Acquit thee of This foul offence” (Semira)
- 00:48Recitative “Appearance, I must own, Is strong against me” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)
- 04:25No. 10 Air “O too lovely, too unkind” (Arbaces)
- 00:49Accompanied Recitative “Dear and beloved shade” (Mandane)
- 05:03No. 11 Air “Fly, soft ideas, fly” (Mandane)
Act II
- 00:38Recitative “Guards, speed ye to the tower” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
- 02:12No. 12 Air “In infancy, our hopes and fears” (Artaxerxes)
- 01:28Recitative “So far my great resolve succeeds” (Artabanes, Arbaces)
- 02:46No. 13 Air “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)
- 02:05Recitative “Why, my dear friend, so pensive” (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)
- 01:52No. 14 Air “To sigh and complain” (Rimenes)
- 01:13Recitative “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain” (Semira, Mandane)
- 03:01No. 15 Air “If o’er the cruel tyrant love” (Mandane)
- 00:31Recitative “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?” (Semira)
- 02:34No. 16 Air “If the river’s swelling waves” (Semira)
- 05:01Recitative “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire” (Tutti)
- 03:31No. 17 Air “By That belov’d embrace” (Arbaces)
- 00:46Recitative “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting” (Mandane, Artabanes)
- 02:36No. 18 Air “Monster, away” (Mandane)
- 01:02Recitative “See, lov’d Semira” (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)
- 00:38Accompanied Recitative “At last my soul has room” (Artabanes)
- 05:03No. 19 Air “Thou, like the glorious sun” (Artabanes)
Act III
- 02:58No. 20 Air “Why is death for ever late” (Arbaces)
- 01:14Recitative “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n” (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)
- 02:20No. 21 Air “Water parted from the sea” (Arbaces)
- 00:26Recitative “That face, secure in conscious innocence” (Artaxerxes)
- 03:38No. 22 Air “Though oft a cloud with envious shade” (Artaxerxes)
- 01:52Recitative “My son, Arbaces... Where art thou retir’d?” (Artabanes, Rimenes)
- 02:15No. 23 Air “O let the danger of a son” (Rimenes)
- 00:41Accompanied Recitative “Ye adverse Gods!” (Artabanes)
- 05:16No. 24 Air “O, much lov’d son, If death” (Artabanes)
- 01:34Recitative “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces” (Mandane, Semira)
- 04:25No. 25 Air “Let not rage, thy bosom firing” (Mandane)
- 00:24Recitative “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought” (Semira)
- 04:08No. 26 Air “’Tis not true That in our grief” (Semira)
- 01:21Recitative “Nor here my searching eyes” (Arbaces, Mandane)
- 03:38No. 27 Duetto “For thee I live, my dearest” (Arbaces, Mandane)
- 02:21Recitative “To you, my people, much belov’d” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)
- 03:33No. 28 Air “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms” (Mandane)
- 02:26Recitative “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)
- 03:28No. 29 Finale “Live to us, to Empire live” (Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
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