No. |
Title |
Length |
1. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: I. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta |
5:06 |
2. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: II. Recitative. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane/Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott) |
0:28 |
3. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: III. Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane/Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott) |
2:18 |
4. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: IV. Recitative. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces/Mandane) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott) |
1:17 |
5. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: V. Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
3:07 |
6. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: VI. Recitative. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence) |
1:09 |
7. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: VII. Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
4:28 |
8. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: VIII. Recitative. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Christopher Robson) |
2:00 |
9. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: IX. Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge) |
3:36 |
10. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: X. Recitative. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira/Artaxerxes) (featuring Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde) |
0:30 |
11. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XI. Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) (featuring Christopher Robson) |
3:07 |
12. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XII. Recitative. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes) (featuring Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
1:28 |
13. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XIII. Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes) (featuring Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
1:57 |
14. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XIV. Recitative. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
0:33 |
15. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XV. Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
3:38 |
16. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XVI. Recitative. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces) (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
3:55 |
17. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XVII. Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge) |
1:37 |
18. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XVIII. Recitative. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
0:18 |
19. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XIX. Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
1:32 |
20. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XX. Recitative. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
0:47 |
21. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XXI. Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
4:48 |
22. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: No 22. Recitative. Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
0:47 |
23. |
Artaxerxes, Act 1: XXIII. Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
5:19 |
24. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: I. Recitative. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Christopher Robson) |
0:40 |
25. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: II. Air. In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) (featuring Christopher Robson) |
2:09 |
26. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: III. Recitative. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces) (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence) |
1:31 |
27. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: IV. Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
2:59 |
28. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: V. Recitative. Why, My Dear Friend, So Pensive, So Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira) (featuring Ian Partridge, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
2:10 |
29. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: VI. Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes) (featuring Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
1:51 |
30. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: VII. Recitative. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott, Philippa Hyde) |
1:13 |
31. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: VIII. Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
2:41 |
32. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: IX. Recitative. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
0:26 |
33. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: X. Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
2:44 |
34. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XI. Recitative. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
5:26 |
35. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XII. Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
3:22 |
36. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XIII. Recitative. Ah Me! at Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Catherine Bott) |
0:49 |
37. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XIV. Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
2:34 |
38. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XV. Recitative. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde) |
1:54 |
39. |
Artaxerxes, Act 2: XVI. Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge) |
3:24 |
40. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: I. Arietta. Why Is Death For Ever Late (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
3:04 |
41. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: II. Recitative. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence, Christopher Robson) |
1:25 |
42. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: III. Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces) (featuring Patricia Spence) |
2:43 |
43. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: IV. Recitative. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) (featuring Christopher Robson) |
0:22 |
44. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: V. Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes) (featuring Christopher Robson) |
3:46 |
45. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: VI. Recitative. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
2:16 |
46. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: VII. Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) (featuring Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
2:12 |
47. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: VIII. Recitative. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge) |
0:45 |
48. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: IX. Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge) |
5:19 |
49. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: X. Recitative. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) (featuring Catherine Bott, Philippa Hyde) |
1:25 |
50. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XI. Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
4:16 |
51. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XII. Recitative. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
0:26 |
52. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XIII. Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira) (featuring Philippa Hyde) |
4:59 |
53. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: IV. Recitative. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott) |
1:13 |
54. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XV. Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) (featuring Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott) |
3:42 |
55. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XVI. Recitative. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) (featuring Ian Partridge, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde) |
2:36 |
56. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XVII. Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) (featuring Catherine Bott) |
3:26 |
57. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XVIII. Recitative. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson) |
2:49 |
58. |
Artaxerxes, Act 3: XIX. Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live (featuring Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson) |
3:29 |