Album tracks

1. Artaxerxes: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta) +
2. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Still silence reigns around +
3. Artaxerxes: No. 1. Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay +
4. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee +
5. Artaxerxes: No. 2. Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth +
6. Artaxerxes: Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive? +
7. Artaxerxes: No. 3. Air: Amid a thousand racking woes +
8. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Be firm, my heart +
9. Artaxerxes: No. 4. Air: Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand +
10. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay +
11. Artaxerxes: No. 5. Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid +
12. Artaxerxes: Recitative: I fear some dread disaster… +
13. Artaxerxes: No. 6. Air: When real joy we miss +
14. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire +
15. Artaxerxes: No. 7. Air: How hard is the fate +
16. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Whither do I fly? +
17. Artaxerxes: No. 8. Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim +
18. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed +
19. Artaxerxes: No. 9. Air: Acquit thee of this foul offence +
20. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me +
21. Artaxerxes: No. 10. Air: O too lovely, too unkind +
22. Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade +
23. Artaxerxes: No. 11. Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly +
24. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower +
25. Artaxerxes: No. 12. Air: In infancy, our hopes and fears +
26. Artaxerxes: Recitative: So far my great resolve succeeds +
27. Artaxerxes: No. 13. Air: Disdainful you fly me +
28. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Why, my dear friend, so pensive, so inactive? +
29. Artaxerxes: No. 14. Air: To sigh and complain +
30. Artaxerxes: Recitative: How many links to dire misfortune’s chain +
31. Artaxerxes: No. 15. Air: If o’er the cruel tyrant love +
32. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Which fatal evil shall I first oppose? +
33. Artaxerxes: No. 16. Air: If the river’s swelling waves +
34. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire +
35. Artaxerxes: No. 17. Air: By that belov’d embrace +
36. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting +
37. Artaxerxes: No. 18. Air: Monster, away +
38. Artaxerxes: Recitative: See, lov’d Semira +
39. Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: At last my soul has room +
40. Artaxerxes: No. 19. Air: Thou, like the glorious sun +
41. Artaxerxes: No. 20. Air: Why is death for ever late +
42. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n, what’s this I see? +
43. Artaxerxes: No. 21. Air: Water parted from the sea +
44. Artaxerxes: Recitative: That face, secure in conscious innocence +
45. Artaxerxes: No. 22. Air: Though oft a cloud with envious shade +
46. Artaxerxes: Recitative: My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d? +
47. Artaxerxes: No. 23. Air: O let the danger of a son +
48. Artaxerxes: Accompanied recitative: Ye adverse Gods! +
49. Artaxerxes: No. 24. Air: O, much lov’d son, if death +
50. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces +
51. Artaxerxes: No. 25. Air: Let not rage, thy bosom firing +
52. Artaxerxes: Recitative: What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought +
53. Artaxerxes: No. 26. Air: ’Tis not true that in our grief +
54. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane +
55. Artaxerxes: No. 27. Duetto: For thee I live, my dearest +
56. Artaxerxes: Recitative: To you, my people, much belov’d +
57. Artaxerxes: No. 28. Air: The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms +
58. Artaxerxes: Recitative: Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet +
59. Artaxerxes: No. 29. Finale: Live to us, to Empire live +