Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)

Ian Partridge, The Parley Of Instruments, Roy Goodman, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippa Hyde & Thomas Arne

Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

2 MINUTES AND 11 SECONDS

Album Tracklist

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta

05:07

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Recit. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane/Arbaces)

00:28

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane/Arbaces)

02:19

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Recit. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces/Mandane)

01:18

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane)

03:08

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Recit. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)

01:10

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces)

04:28

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)

02:00

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes)

03:37

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Recit. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)

00:30

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)

03:07

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 12, Recit. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)

01:28

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 13, Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes)

01:57

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)

00:33

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira)

03:39

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 16, Recit. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)

03:56

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 17, Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes)

01:38

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 18, Recit. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces)

00:18

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 19, Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira)

01:32

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)

00:48

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 21, Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces)

04:49

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Dear and Beloved Shade of My Dead Father (Mandane)

00:47

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 23, Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane)

05:20

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 1, Recit. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)

00:41

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 2, Air. In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)

02:10

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)

01:32

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces)

03:00

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)

02:11

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes)

01:51

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)

01:14

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)

02:41

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira)

00:26

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira)

02:45

Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

00:00

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)

05:27

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)

03:22

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes)

00:50

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane)

02:34

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)

01:55

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes)

03:24

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces)

03:04

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)

01:26

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces)

02:44

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)

00:22

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes)

03:46

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)

02:16

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)

02:13

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes)

00:46

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes)

05:19

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)

01:25

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane)

04:17

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira)

00:26

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira)

05:00

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)

01:13

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)

03:42

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)

02:37

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)

03:27

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)

02:50

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live

03:30

Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)