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Arne; Artaxerxes
Label Catalogue Number:
SIGCD672
SIGCD672
Digital UPC: 0635212067222
Release Date: May 2021
Originally recorded in 2010
Release Date: May 2021
Originally recorded in 2010
Composer
Thomas Arne
Thomas Arne
Solo countertenor (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Ainslie
Christopher Ainslie
Solo soprano (Mandane)
Elizabeth Watts
Elizabeth Watts
Solo mezzo-soprano (Arbaces)
Caitlin Hulcup
Caitlin Hulcup
Solo tenor (Artabanes)
Andrew Staples
Andrew Staples
Solo soprano (Semira)
Rebecca Bottone
Rebecca Bottone
Solo tenor (Rimenes)
Daniel Norman
Daniel Norman
Chamber
Mozartists,The
Mozartists,The
Conductor
Ian Page
Ian Page
Genre:
Vocal & Song
Vocal & Song
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THOMAS ARNE
Artaxerxes
ACT ONE
1.
Overture (Poco più che andante - Larghetto - Gavotta)
5:13
2.
Recitative: "Still silence reigns around" (Mandane, Arbaces)
0:29
3.
No.1, Duettino: "Fair Aurora, prithee stay" (Mandane, Arbaces)
2:16
4.
Recitative: "Alas, thou know'st that for my love to thee" Arbaces, Mandane)
1:13
5.
No.2, Air: "Adieu, thou lovely youth" (Mandane)
3:21
6.
Recitative: "O cruel parting! How can I survice? (Arbaces, Artabanes)
0:57
7.
No.3, Air: "Amid a thousand racking woes" (Arbaces)
4:38
8.
Recitative: "Be firm, my heart" (Artbanes, Artaxerxes)
1:26
9.
No.4, Air: "Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand" (Artabanes)
3:36
10.
Recitative: "Stay, Artaxerxes, stay" (Semira, Artaxerxes)
0:29
11.
No.5, Air: "Fair Semira, lovely maid" (Artaxerxes)
3:26
12.
Recitative: "I fear some dread disaster" (Semira, Rimenes)
1:29
13.
No.6, Air: "When real joy we miss" (Rimenes)
1:59
14.
Recitative: "Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire" (Semira)
0:36
15.
No.7, Air: "How hard is the fate" (Sermia)
4:01
16.
Recitative: "Whither do I fly?" (Tutti)
3:23
17.
No.8, Air: "Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim" (Artabanes)
1:23
18.
Recitative: "Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed" (Arbaces)
0:14
19.
No.9, Air: "Acquit thee of this foul offence" (Semira)
1:27
20.
Recitative: "Appearance, I must own, is strong against me" (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)
0:48
21.
No.10, Air: "O too lovely, too unkind" (Arbaces)
4:24
22.
Accompanied recitative: "Dear and beloved shade" (Mandane)
0:48
23.
No.11, Air: "Fly, soft ideas, fly" (Mandane)
5:01
ACT TWO
24.
Recitative: "Guards, speed ye to the tower" (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
0:37
25.
No.12, Air: "In infancy, our hopes and fears" (Artaxerxes)
2:12
26.
Recitative: "So far my great resolve succeeds" (Artabanes, Arbaces)
1:28
27.
No.13, Air: "Disdainful you fly me" (Arbaces)
2:46
28.
Recitative: "Why, my dear friend, so pensive" (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)
2:05
29.
No.14, Air: "To sigh and complain" (Rimenes)
1:51
30.
Recitative: "How many links to dire misfortune's chain" (Smira, Mandane)
1:12
31.
No.15, Air: "If o'er the cruel tyrant love" (Mandane)
3:00
32.
Recitative: "Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?" (Semira)
0:31
33.
No.16, Air: "If the river's swelling waves" (Semira)
2:34
34.
Recitative: "Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire" (Tutti)
5:00
35.
No.17, Air: "By that belov'd embrace" (Arbaces)
3:31
36.
Recitative: "Ah me, at poor Arbaces' parting" (Mandane, Artabanes)
0:46
37.
No.18, Air: "Monster, away" (Mandane)
2:36
38.
Recitative: "See, lov'd Semira" (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)
1:02
39.
Accompanied recitative: "At last my soul has room" (Artabanes)
0:37
40.
No.19, Air: "Thou, like the glorious sun" (Artabanes)
4:58
ACT THREE
41.
No.20, Air: "Why is death for ever late" (Arbaces)
2:57
42.
Recitative: "Arbaces! Gracious Heav'n (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)
1:13
43.
No.21, Air: "Water parted from the sea" (Arbaces)
2:19
44.
Recitative: "That face, secure in conscious innocence" (Artaxerxes)
0:25
45.
No.22, Air: "Though oft a cloud with envious shade Artaxerxes)
3:38
46.
Recitative: "My son, Arbaces... Where art thou retir'd?" (Artabanes, Rimenes)
1:52
47.
No.23, Air: "O let the danger of a son" (Rimenes)
2:15
48.
Accompanied recitative: "Ye adverse Gods!" (Artabanes)
0:41
49.
No.24, Air: "O, much lov'd son, if death (Artabanes)
5:15
50.
Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces" (Mandane, Semira)
1:34
51.
No.25, Air: "Let not rage, thy bosom firing" (Mandane)
4:24
52.
Recitative: "What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought (Semira)
0:24
53.
No.26, Air: "Tis not true that in our grief" (Semira)
4:08
54.
Recitative: "Nor here my searching eyes" Arbaces, Mandane)
1:20
55.
No.27, Duetto: "For thee I live, my dearest" (Arbaces, Mandane)
3:37
56.
Recitative: "To you, my eople, much belov'd Artaxerxes, Artabanes, Semira, Mandane)
2:20
57.
No.28, Air: "The soldier, ti'd of war's alarms" (Mandane)
3:33
58.
Recitative: "Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet" (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Mandane, Artabanes)
2:25
59.
No.29, Finale: "Live t us, to Empire live" Semira, Mandane, Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Artabanes)
3:36
Total time: 137:19
Solo: Christopher Ainslie countertenor (Artaxerxes)
Solo: Elizabeth Watts soprano (Mandane)
Solo: Caitlin Hulcup mezzo-soprano (Arbaces)
Solo: Andrew Staples tenor (Artabanes)
Solo: Rebecca Bottone soprano (Semira)
Solo: Daniel Norman tenor (Rimenes)
Chamber: Mozartists,The
Continuo: Mark Packwood/Steven Devine (harpsichord), Joseph Crouch (cello)
Leader: Matthew Truscott
Conductor: Ian Page
Notes
A composer inextricably linked with London’s Covent Garden, Thomas Arne’s greatest opera, Artaxerxes, was premièred at the Theatre Royal, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House, on 2 February 1762 and remained in the Covent Garden repertory until the late 1830s, where it received a documented 111 performances before 1790. The young Mozart almost certainly attended a performance when he came to London in the mid1760s and Haydn was also acquainted with the work, enthusiastically exclaiming that he “had no idea we had such an opera in the English language.”
The Mozartists, under the dynamic leadership of conductor and artistic director Ian Page, are leading exponents of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries. Originally called Classical Opera, the company was founded in 1997 and has received widespread international acclaim for its stylish and virtuosic period-instrument orchestra, its imaginative and innovative programming and its ability to nurture and develop world-class young artists.
Renowned for their fresh and insightful interpretations of well-known masterpieces as well as for their ability to bring rare and neglected works to light, they have mounted staged productions of many of Mozart’s operas. In 2015 the company launched MOZART 250, a ground-breaking 27-year project exploring the chronological trajectory of Mozart’s life, works and influences. Described by The Observer as “among the most audacious classical music scheduling ever,” this flagship project presents 250th Anniversary performances of most of Mozart’s important works, placing them in context alongside other significant works by Mozart’s contemporaries
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"... The Mozartists play gloriously under the dynamic leadership of conductor and artistic director, Ian Page. The constant stream of melody allied to the beauty of the soloists' voices give much pleasure. This is one of the outstanding works by an English composer of the period and it serves Arne's cause well. Everyone can take a well-deserved bow and the whole enterprise deserves the highest raise." *****
Edward Clark - Musical Opinion Quarterly - July - September 2021
“… very much recommended.”
Alexandra Coghlan – Gramophone magazine – July 2021
Recommended
“A wholly recommendable recording of a milestone work in the history of English opera.”
Göran Forsling – MusicWeb-International.com – 6 July 2021
“Spearheaded by six excellent singers, Page and the Mozartists offer a highly engaging reading of Thomas Arne’s 1762 English-language version of Metastasio’s drama Artaxerxes, the orchestral colours vividly realised on historically appropriate instruments…”
Stephen Pettitt – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 16 May 2021
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