Artaxerxes

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