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Release Date: 05/14/2021
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212067222
Rank: 144255

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Artaxerxes~Act One: Overture (Poco pi¿¿ che andante - larghetto - Gavotta)
  2. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Still Silence Reigns Around
  3. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, Prithee Stay
  4. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love to Thee
  5. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 2, Air: Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth
  6. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: O Cruel Parting! How Can I Survive?
  7. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 3, Air: Amid a Thousand Racking Woes
  8. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Be Firm, My Heart
  9. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 4, Air: Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand
  10. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Stay, Artaxerex, Stay
  11. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 5, Air: Fair Semira, Lovely Maid
  12. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: I Fear Some Dread Disaster
  13. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 6, Air: When Real Joy We Miss
  14. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire
  15. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 7, Air: How Hard Is the Fate
  16. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Whither Do I Fly?
  17. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 8, Air: Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim
  18. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed
  19. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 9, Air: Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence
  20. Artaxerxes~Act One: Recitative: Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me
  21. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 10, Air: O Too Lovely, Too Unkind
  22. Artaxerxes~Act One: Accompanied Recitative: Dear and Beloved Shade
  23. Artaxerxes~Act One: No. 11, Air: Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly
  24. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: Guards, Spped Ye to the Tower
  25. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 12, Air: In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears
  26. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds
  27. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 13, Air: Disdainful You Fly Me
  28. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: Why, My Dear Friend, So Pensive
  29. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 14, Air: To Sigh and Complain
  30. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain
  31. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 15, Air: If O'er the Cruel Tyrant Love

Disc 2

  1. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose?
  2. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 16, Air: If the River's Swelling Waves
  3. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire
  4. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 17, Air: By That Belo'd Embrace
  5. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative; Ah me, At Poor Arbaces' Parting
  6. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 18, Air: Monster, Away
  7. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Recitative: See, Lov'd Semira
  8. Artaxerxes~Act Two: Accompanied Recitative: At Last My Soul Has Room
  9. Artaxerxes~Act Two: No. 19, Air: Thou, Like the Glorious Sun
  10. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 20, Air: Why Is Death for Ever Late
  11. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav'n
  12. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 21, Air: Water Parted From the Sea
  13. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: That Face, Secure in Conscious Innocence
  14. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 22, Air: Though Oft a Cloud With Envious Shade
  15. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: My Son, Arbaces... Where Art Thou Retir'd?
  16. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 23, Air: O Let the Danger of a Son
  17. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Accompanied Recitative: Ye Adverse Gods!
  18. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 24, Air: O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death
  19. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces
  20. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 25, Air: Let Not Rage, Thy Bosom Firing
  21. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: What Have I Done? Alas, I Vainly Thought
  22. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 26, Air: Tis Not True That in Our Grief
  23. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: Nor Here My Searching Eyes
  24. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 27, Duetto: For Thee I Live, My Dearest
  25. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: To You, My People, Much Belov'd
  26. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 28, Air: The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms
  27. Artaxerxes~Act Three: Recitative: Behold, My Kind, Arbaces at Thy Feet
  28. Artaxerxes~Act Three: No. 29, Finale: Live to Us, to Empire Live

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ian Page   Primary Artist,Conductor
The Mozartists   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Christopher Ainslie   Primary Artist,Counter Tenor (Vocal)
Elizabeth Watts   Primary Artist,Soprano (Vocal)
Daniel Norman   Tenor (Vocal)
Rebecca Bottone   Soprano (Vocal)
Andrew Staples   Tenor (Vocal)
Caitlin Hulcup   Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Thomas Arne   Composer,Libretto Translation
Philip Hobbs   Engineer,Producer
Matthew Truscott   Leader
Stephen Page   Photography
Duncan Druce   Additional Music
Julia Thomas   Post Production
Pietro Metastasio   Librettist
Debbie Coates   Design
Ian Page   Arranger,Liner Notes,Additional Music
Toucari   Design
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