from Arne: Artaxerxes (CKD358) 1 Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta [5'13] 137 minutes 27 seconds 59 tracks2 Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces) [0'29] 3 Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces) [2'17] 4 Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane) [1'13] 5 Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane) [3'22] 6 O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes) [0'57] 7 Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces) [4'38] 8 Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes) [1'26] 9 Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes) [3'37] 10 Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes) [0'29] 11 Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) [3'26] 12 I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes) [1'29] 13 When real Joys we miss (Rimenes) [1'59] 14 Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) [0'36] 15 How hard is the Fate (Semira) [4'01] 16 Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces) [3'24] 17 Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes) [1'24] 18 Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces) [0'14] 19 Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira) [1'27] 20 Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane) [0'48] 21 O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces) [4'25] 22 Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane) [0'49] 23 Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane) [5'01] 24 Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes) [0'38] 25 In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) [2'12] 26 So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces) [1'28] 27 Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces) [2'46] 28 Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira) [2'05] 29 To sigh and complain (Rimenes) [1'51] 30 How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane) [1'13] 31 If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) [3'01] 32 Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira) [0'31] 33 If the River's swelling Waves (Semira) [2'34] 34 Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) [5'00] 35 By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) [3'31] 36 Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes) [0'46] 37 Monster, away! (Mandane) [2'36] 38 See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira) [1'02] 39 At last my soul has room (Artabanes) [0'38] 40 Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes) [4'59] 41 Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces) [2'58] 42 Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) [1'14] 43 Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces) [2'19] 44 That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) [0'26] 45 Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes) [3'38] 46 My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) [1'52] 47 O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) [2'15] 48 Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes) [0'41] 49 O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes) [5'15] 50 Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) [1'34] 51 Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane) [4'25] 52 What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira) [0'24] 53 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira) [4'08] 54 Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) [1'20] 55 For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) [3'38] 56 To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) [2'20] 57 The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) [3'33] 58 Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) [2'26] 59 Live to us, to Empire live [3'26] 'Written in 1762, Arne's English opera seria enjoyed a success which endured till the score was lost in the fire which destroyed the Theatre Royal in 1808. In a first recording, Roy Goodman directed a ... BBC Music Magazine Classic FM |