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Arne: Artaxerxes

2011

Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces”

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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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