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Duration
141 Min
Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)
Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence, Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippa Hyde, The Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman
Duration
141 Min
Thomas Arne
1
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
05:07
2
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Recit. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane/Arbaces)
Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence
00:28
3
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane/Arbaces)
Patricia Spence, Catherine Bott
02:19
4
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Recit. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence
01:18
5
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
03:08
6
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Recit. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)
Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence
01:10
7
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
04:28
8
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge
02:00
9
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes)
Ian Partridge
03:37
10
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Recit. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson, Philippa Hyde
00:30
11
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson
03:07
12
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 12, Recit. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)
Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippa Hyde
01:28
13
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 13, Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes)
Richard Edgar-Wilson
01:57
14
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
00:33
15
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
03:39
16
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 16, Recit. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)
Catherine Bott, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence, Philippa Hyde, Christopher Robson
03:56
17
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 17, Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes)
Ian Partridge
01:38
18
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 18, Recit. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
00:18
19
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 19, Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
01:32
20
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Patricia Spence
00:48
21
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 21, Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
04:49
22
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Dear and Beloved Shade of My Dead Father (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
00:47
23
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 23, Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
05:20
24
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 1, Recit. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)
Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge
00:40
25
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 2, Air. In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson
02:10
26
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)
Ian Partridge, Patricia Spence
01:32
27
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
03:00
28
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)
Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Philippa Hyde
02:11
29
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes)
Richard Edgar-Wilson
01:51
30
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Philippa Hyde
01:14
31
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
02:41
32
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
00:26
33
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
02:45
34
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)
Philippa Hyde, Patricia Spence, Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson
05:27
35
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
03:22
36
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes)
Ian Partridge, Catherine Bott
00:50
37
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
02:34
38
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)
Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge, Philippa Hyde
01:55
39
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes)
Ian Partridge
03:24
40
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
03:04
41
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)
Christopher Robson, Patricia Spence
01:26
42
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
Patricia Spence
02:44
43
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson
00:22
44
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
Christopher Robson
03:46
45
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)
Ian Partridge, Richard Edgar-Wilson
02:16
46
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
Richard Edgar-Wilson
02:13
47
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
Ian Partridge
00:46
48
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes)
Ian Partridge
05:19
49
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)
Catherine Bott, Philippa Hyde
01:25
50
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
04:17
51
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
00:26
52
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira)
Philippa Hyde
05:00
53
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence
01:13
54
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Patricia Spence
03:42
55
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)
Catherine Bott, Ian Partridge, Philippa Hyde, Christopher Robson
02:37
56
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
Catherine Bott
03:27
57
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)
Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Patricia Spence, Ian Partridge
02:50
58
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live
Catherine Bott, Christopher Robson, Ian Partridge, Philippa Hyde, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Patricia Spence
03:30
Artists
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Catherine Bott
Soprano, Narrator
Richard Edgar-Wilson
Tenor
Roy Goodman
Viola d amore
Philippa Hyde
Soprano
Ian Partridge
Tenor
Christopher Robson
Countertenor
Patricia Spence
Mezzo-Soprano
The Parley of Instruments
Orchestra
Composers
Thomas Arne
Composer
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