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Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Artaxerxes, an English Opera (1762)

Reconstructed & edited by Peter Holman 00:00 Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta) ACT 1 An inner garden belonging to the palace of the King of Persia. Moon-light 05:06 Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane / Arbaces) 05:34 Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane / Arbaces) 07:54 Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces / Mandane) 09:11 Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane) 12:19 Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces / Artabanes) 13:29 Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces) 17:57 Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes / Artaxerxes) 19:57 Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes) 23:34 Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira / Artaxerxes) 24:04 Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) 27:11 Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira / Rimenes) 28:40 Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes) 30:37 Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) 31:11 Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira) The Palace 34:49 Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane / Artaxerxes / Artabanes / Semira / Rimenes / Arbaces) 38:45 Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes) 40:23 Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces) 40:41 Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira) 42:13 Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces / Artaxerxes / Rimenes / Mandane) 43:00 Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces) 47:49 Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane) 48:37 Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane) ACT 2 The Royal Apartments 53:57 Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes / Artabanes) 54:37 Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) 56:47 Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes / Arbaces) 58:19 Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces) 1:01:19 Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes / Artabanes / Semira) 1:03:30 Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes) 1:05:21 Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira / Mandane) 1:06:36 Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) 1:09:16 Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira) 1:09:43 Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira) A Hall of Royal Council with a Throne, Seats on the Sides for the Grandees of the Kingdom, a small Table and Chair on the right hand of the Throne 1:12:32 Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes / Mandane / Artabanes / Rimenes / Semira / Arbaces) 1:17:54 Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) 1:21:16 Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane / Artabanes) 1:22:07 Air: Monster, away! (Mandane) 1:24:41 Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes / Semira / Artabanes) 1:26:36 Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes) ACT 3 A Prison 1:30:00 Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces) 1:33:04 Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes / Arbaces) 1:34:30 Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces) 1:37:14 Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) 1:37:37 Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes) 1:41:22 Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes / Rimenes) 1:43:39 Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) 1:45:52 Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes) 1:46:37 Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes) Mandane´s Apartment 1:51:56 Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane / Semira) 1:53:22 Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane) 1:57:38 Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira) 1:58:05 Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira) 2:03:05 Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces / Mandane) 2:04:19 Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces / Mandane) A Temple, and Throne, with a Crown and Scepter; the image of the Sun, with a lighted Altar 2:08:00 Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes / Artabanes / Semira / Mandane) 2:10:37 Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) 2:14:03 Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces / Artaxerxes / Mandane / Artabanes) 2:16:54 Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live Artaxerxes: Christoper Robson, countertenor (Prince and afterwards King of Persia; friend of Arbaces; in love with Semira) Artabanes: Ian Partridge, tenor (Generalissimo, and favourite of the Royal Family; father to Arbaces and Semira) Arbaces: Patricia Spence, mezzo-soprano (Friend of Artaxerxes; in love with Mandane) Rimenes: Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor (a General of the Army, and confidant of Artabanes) Mandane: Catherine Bott, soprano (Sister to Artaxerxes; in love with Arbaces) Semira: Philippa Hyde, soprano (Sister to Arbaces; in love with Artaxerxes) Chorus Colin Campbell; Charles Gibbs, bass The Parley of Instruments - Peter Holman, musical director (Roy Goodman, conductor) Recorded on 25-30 March 1995, The Warehouse, Waterloo, London, United Kingdom