Thomas Arne (1710-1778) - Artaxerxes (2 CD)

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