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Thomas Arne - Artaxerxes by The Classical Opera Company; C

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• Artist:The Classical Opera Company; C
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: Outhere / Linn
• Released: 24 January 2011
• Barcode: 0691062035828
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• • Overture (Poco più che andante Larghetto Gavotta), - Various Performers
  • Recitative: Still silence reigns around,
  • No.1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay,
  • Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my love to thee,
  • No.2, Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth,
  • Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive?,
  • No.3, Air: Amid a thousand racking woes,
  • Recitative: Be firm, my heart,
  • No.4, Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand,
  • Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay,
  • No.5, Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid,
  • Recitative: I fear some dread disaster...,
  • No.6, Air: When real joy we miss,
  • Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire,
  • No.7, Air: How hard is the fate,
  • Recitative: Whither do I fly?,
  • No.8, Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim,
  • Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed,
  • No.9, Air: Acquit thee of this foul offence,
  • Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me,
  • No.10, Air: O too lovely, too unkind,
  • Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade,
  • No.11, Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly,
  • Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower,
  • No.12, Air: In infancy, our hopes and fears,
  • Recitative: So far my great resolve succeeds,
  • No.13, Air: Disdainful you fly me,
  • Recitative: Why, my dear friend, so pensive, so inactive?,
  • No.14, Air: To sigh and complain,
  • Recitative: How many links to dire misfortune's chain,
  • No.15, Air: If o'er the cruel tyrant love.
  • Recitative: Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?,
  • No.16, Air: If the river's swelling waves,
  • Recitative: Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire,
  • No.17, Air: By that belov'd embrace,
  • Recitative: Ah me, at poor Arbaces' parting,
  • No.18, Air: Monster, away,
  • Recitative: See, lov'd Semira,
  • Accompanied recitative: At last my soul has room,
  • No.19, Air: Thou, like the glorious sun,
  • No.20, Air: Why is death for ever late,
  • Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav'n, what s this I see?,
  • No.21, Air: Water parted from the sea,
  • Recitative: That face, secure in conscious innocence,
  • No.22, Air: Though oft a cloud with envious shade,
  • ,Recitative: My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir'd?,
  • No.23, Air: O let the danger of a son,
  • Accompanied recitative: Ye adverse Gods!,
  • No.24, Air: O, much lov d son, if death,
  • Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces,
  • No.25, Air: Let not rage, thy bosom firing,
  • Recitative: What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought,
  • No.26, Air: 'Tis not true that in our grief,
  • Recitative: Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane,
  • No.27, Duetto: For thee I live, my dearest,
  • Recitative: To you, my people, much belov'd,
  • No.28, Air: The soldier, tir'd of war's alarms,
  • Recitative: Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet,
  • No.29, Finale: Live to us, to Empire live.