Artaxerxes

1 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 1. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta 5:01 2 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces) 0:27 3 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 3. Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces) 2:19 4 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane) 1:18 5 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 5. Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane) 3:07 6 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 6. Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes) 1:10 7 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 7. Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces) 4:28 8 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 8. Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes) 2:00 9 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 9. Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes) 3:37 10 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes) 0:30 11 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 11. Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) 3:08 12 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 12. Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes) 1:28 13 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 13. Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes) 1:57 14 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 14. Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) 0:33 15 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 15. Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira) 3:38 16 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 16. Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces) 3:56 17 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 17. Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes) 1:37 18 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces) 0:18 19 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 19. Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira) 1:33 20 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane) 0:47 21 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 21. Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces) 4:49 22 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 22. Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane) 0:48 23 Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 23. Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane) 5:02 24 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 1. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes) 0:40 25 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 2. Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) 2:10 26 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 3. Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces) 1:31 27 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 4. Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces) 3:01 28 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 5. Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira) 2:10 29 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 6. Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes) 1:51 30 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 7. Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane) 1:15 31 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 8. Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) 2:41 32 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 9. Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira) 0:26 33 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 10. Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira) 2:32 1 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) 5:22 2 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) 3:22 3 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes) 0:50 4 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane) 2:34 5 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes) 1:55 6 Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes) 3:12 7 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces) 3:04 8 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) 1:25 9 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces) 2:44 10 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) 0:22 11 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes) 3:42 12 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) 2:16 13 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) 2:13 14 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes) 0:46 15 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes) 5:19 16 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) 1:25 17 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane) 4:16 18 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira) 0:26 19 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira) 5:00 20 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) 1:13 21 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) 3:42 22 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) 2:36 23 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) 3:27 24 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) 2:50 25 Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live 3:19