Album · 2011
Artaxerxes
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Artaxerxes: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)
Artaxerxes
5:13
2
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Still silence reigns around
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0:29
3
Artaxerxes: No. 1. Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay
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2:17
4
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee
Artaxerxes
1:14
5
Artaxerxes: No. 2. Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth
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3:22
6
Artaxerxes: Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive?
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0:57
7
Artaxerxes: No. 3. Air: Amid a thousand racking woes
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4:39
8
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Be firm, my heart
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1:27
9
Artaxerxes: No. 4. Air: Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand
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3:37
10
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay
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0:30
11
Artaxerxes: No. 5. Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid
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3:26
12
Artaxerxes: Recitative: I fear some dread disaster…
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1:29
13
Artaxerxes: No. 6. Air: When real joy we miss
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1:59
14
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire
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0:36
15
Artaxerxes: No. 7. Air: How hard is the fate
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4:02
16
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Whither do I fly?
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3:24
17
Artaxerxes: No. 8. Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim
Artaxerxes
1:24
18
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed
Artaxerxes
0:14
19
Artaxerxes: No. 9. Air: Acquit thee of this foul offence
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1:27
20
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me
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0:48
21
Artaxerxes: No. 10. Air: O too lovely, too unkind
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4:25
22
Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade
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0:49
23
Artaxerxes: No. 11. Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly
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5:03
24
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower
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0:38
25
Artaxerxes: No. 12. Air: In infancy, our hopes and fears
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2:12
26
Artaxerxes: Recitative: So far my great resolve succeeds
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1:28
27
Artaxerxes: No. 13. Air: Disdainful you fly me
Artaxerxes
2:46
28
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Why, my dear friend, so pensive, so inactive?
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2:05
29
Artaxerxes: No. 14. Air: To sigh and complain
Artaxerxes
1:51
30
Artaxerxes: Recitative: How many links to dire misfortune’s chain
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1:13
31
Artaxerxes: No. 15. Air: If o’er the cruel tyrant love
Artaxerxes
3:01
Disc 2
1
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?
Artaxerxes
0:31
2
Artaxerxes: No. 16. Air: If the river’s swelling waves
Artaxerxes
2:34
3
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire
Artaxerxes
5:01
4
Artaxerxes: No. 17. Air: By that belov’d embrace
Artaxerxes
3:31
5
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting
Artaxerxes
0:47
6
Artaxerxes: No. 18. Air: Monster, away
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2:36
7
Artaxerxes: Recitative: See, lov’d Semira
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1:02
8
Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: At last my soul has room
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0:38
9
Artaxerxes: No. 19. Air: Thou, like the glorious sun
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5:03
10
Artaxerxes: No. 20. Air: Why is death for ever late
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2:58
11
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n, what’s this I see?
Artaxerxes
1:14
12
Artaxerxes: No. 21. Air: Water parted from the sea
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2:20
13
Artaxerxes: Recitative: That face, secure in conscious innocence
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0:26
14
Artaxerxes: No. 22. Air: Though oft a cloud with envious shade
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3:38
15
Artaxerxes: Recitative: My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?
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1:52
16
Artaxerxes: No. 23. Air: O let the danger of a son
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2:15
17
Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: Ye adverse Gods!
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0:41
18
Artaxerxes: No. 24. Air: O, much lov’d son, if death
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5:16
19
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces
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1:34
20
Artaxerxes: No. 25. Air: Let not rage, thy bosom firing
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4:25
21
Artaxerxes: Recitative: What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought
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0:24
22
Artaxerxes: No. 26. Air: ’Tis not true that in our grief
Artaxerxes
4:08
23
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane
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1:21
24
Artaxerxes: No. 27. Duetto: For thee I live, my dearest
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3:38
25
Artaxerxes: Recitative: To you, my people, much belov’d
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2:21
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Artaxerxes: No. 28. Air: The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms
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3:34
27
Artaxerxes: Recitative: Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet
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2:26
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Artaxerxes: No. 29. Finale: Live to us, to Empire live
Artaxerxes
3:26