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CD 1
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| 1 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 1. Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta
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5:01
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| 2 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces)
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0:27
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| 3 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 3. Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr'ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces)
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2:19
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| 4 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane)
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1:18
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| 5 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 5. Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane)
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3:07
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| 6 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 6. Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)
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1:10
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| 7 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 7. Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces)
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4:28
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| 8 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 8. Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)
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2:00
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| 9 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 9. Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal Strand (Artabanes)
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3:37
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| 10 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)
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0:30
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| 11 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 11. Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)
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3:08
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| 12 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 12. Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)
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1:28
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| 13 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 13. Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes)
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1:57
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| 14 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 14. Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)
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0:33
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| 15 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 15. Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira)
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3:38
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| 16 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 16. Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)
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3:56
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| 17 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 17. Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes)
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1:37
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| 18 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces)
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0:18
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| 19 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 19. Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira)
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1:33
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| 20 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)
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0:47
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| 21 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 21. Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces)
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4:49
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| 22 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 22. Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane)
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0:48
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| 23 |
Artaxerxes: Act 1: No. 23. Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane)
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5:02
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| 24 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 1. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)
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0:40
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| 25 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 2. Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)
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2:10
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| 26 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 3. Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)
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1:31
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| 27 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 4. Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces)
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3:01
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| 28 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 5. Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)
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2:10
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| 29 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 6. Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes)
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1:51
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| 30 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 7. Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
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1:15
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| 31 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 8. Air: If o'er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)
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2:41
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| 32 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 9. Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira)
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0:26
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| 33 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 10. Air: If the River's swelling Waves (Semira)
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2:32
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CD 2
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| 1 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 11. Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)
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5:22
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| 2 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 12. Air: By that belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)
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3:22
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| 3 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 13. Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes)
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0:50
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| 4 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 14. Air: Monster, away! (Mandane)
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2:34
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| 5 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 15. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)
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1:55
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| 6 |
Artaxerxes: Act 2: No. 16. Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes)
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3:12
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| 7 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 1. Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces)
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3:04
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| 8 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 2. Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)
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1:25
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| 9 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 3. Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces)
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2:44
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| 10 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 4. Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)
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0:22
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| 11 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 5. Air: Tho' oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes)
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3:42
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| 12 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 6. Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)
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2:16
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| 13 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 7. Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)
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2:13
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| 14 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 8. Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes)
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0:46
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| 15 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 9. Air: O, much lov'd Son, if Death (Artabanes)
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5:19
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| 16 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 10. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)
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1:25
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| 17 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 11. Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane)
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4:16
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| 18 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 12. Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira)
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0:26
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| 19 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 13. Air: 'Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira)
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5:00
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| 20 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 14. Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)
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1:13
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| 21 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 15. Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)
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3:42
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| 22 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 16. Recitative: To you my People, much belov'd, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)
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2:36
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| 23 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 17. Air: The Soldier, tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)
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3:27
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| 24 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 18. Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)
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2:50
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| 25 |
Artaxerxes: Act 3: No. 19. Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live
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3:19
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