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Arne; Artaxerxes
Label Catalogue Number:
SIGCD672
SIGCD672
Running Time: 137:19
Release Date: May 2021
Originally recorded in 2010
Composer
Thomas Arne
Thomas Arne
Solo countertenor (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Ainslie
Christopher Ainslie
Soprano Voice soprano (Mandane)
Elizabeth Watts
Elizabeth Watts
Solo mezzo-soprano (Arbaces)
Caitlin Hulcup
Caitlin Hulcup
Tenor Voice 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: Caitlin Hulcup mezzo-soprano (Arbaces)
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
