Arne: Artaxerxes
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2011
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me”
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Arne: Artaxerxes
2011
Disc
1
01
Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
02
Recitative: Still silence reigns around
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
03
No.1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
04
Recitative: Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
05
No.2, Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
06
Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
07
No.3, Air: Amid a thousand racking woes
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
08
Recitative: Be firm, my heart
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
09
No.4, Air: Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
10
Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
11
No.5, Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
12
Recitative: I fear some dread disaster…
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
13
No.6, Air: When real joy we miss
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
14
Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
15
No.7, Air: How hard is the fate
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
16
Recitative: Whither do I fly?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
17
No.8, Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
18
Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
19
No.9, Air: Acquit thee of this foul offence
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
20
Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
21
No.10, Air: O too lovely, too unkind
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
22
Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
23
No.11, Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
24
Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
25
No.12, Air: In infancy, our hopes and fears
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
26
Recitative: So far my great resolve succeeds
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
27
No.13, Air: Disdainful you fly me
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
28
Recitative: Why, my dear friend, so pensive, so inactive?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
29
No.14, Air: To sigh and complain
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
30
Recitative: How many links to dire misfortune’s chain
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
31
No.15, Air: If o’er the cruel tyrant love
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
Disc
2
01
Recitative: Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
02
No.16, Air: If the river’s swelling waves
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
03
Recitative: Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
04
No.17, Air: By that belov’d embrace
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
05
Recitative: Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
06
No.18, Air: Monster, away
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
07
Recitative: See, lov’d Semira
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
08
Accompanied recitative: At last my soul has room
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
09
No.19, Air: Thou, like the glorious sun
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
10
No.20, Air: Why is death for ever late
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
11
Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n, what’s this I see?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
12
No.21, Air: Water parted from the sea
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
13
Recitative: That face, secure in conscious innocence
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
14
No.22, Air: Though oft a cloud with envious shade
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
15
Recitative: My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
16
No.23, Air: O let the danger of a son
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
17
Accompanied recitative: Ye adverse Gods!
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
18
No.24, Air: O, much lov’d son, if death
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
19
Recitative: Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
20
No.25, Air: Let not rage, thy bosom firing
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
21
Recitative: What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
22
No.26, Air: ’Tis not true that in our grief
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
23
Recitative: Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
24
No.27, Duetto: For thee I live, my dearest
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
25
Recitative: To you, my people, much belov’d
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
26
No.28, Air: The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
27
Recitative: Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
28
No.29, Finale: Live to us, to Empire live
Christopher Ainslie, Elizabeth Watts, Ian Page
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