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The Mozartists, Ian Page, Christopher Ainslie, Rebecca Bottone & Andrew Staples

Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira”

The Mozartists, Ian Page, Christopher Ainslie, Rebecca Bottone & Andrew Staples

Arne: Artaxerxes

1 MINUTE AND 2 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1
Artaxerxes, Act I: Overture
05:11
2
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around”
00:29
3
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” [Explicit]
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02:16
4
Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee”
01:13
5
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth”
03:21
6
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?”
00:57
7
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes”
04:38
8
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart”
01:26
9
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand”
03:36
10
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay”
00:29
11
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid”
03:26
12
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster”
01:29
13
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss”
01:59
14
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire”
00:36
15
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate”
04:01
16
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?”
03:23
17
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim”
01:23
18
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed”
00:14
19
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence”
01:27
20
Artaxerxes, Act I: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me”
00:48
21
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind”
04:24
22
Artaxerxes, Act I: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade”
00:48
23
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly”
05:03
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Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower”
00:38
25
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears”
02:12
26
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds”
01:28
27
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)
02:46
28
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive”
02:05
29
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain”
01:51
30
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain”
01:12
31
Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love”
03:00
32
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?”
00:30
33
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves”
02:34
34
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire”
05:00
35
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace”
03:31
36
Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting”
00:46
37
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away”
02:36
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Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira”
01:02
39
Artaxerxes, Act II: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room”
00:37
40
Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun”
05:03
41
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late”
02:57
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Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n”
01:13
43
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea”
02:19
44
Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence”
00:25
45
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade”
03:38
46
Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?”
01:52
47
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son”
02:15
48
Artaxerxes, Act III: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!”
00:41
49
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death”
05:15
50
Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces”
01:34
51
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing”
04:24
52
Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought”
00:24
53
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief”
04:08
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Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes”
01:20
55
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest”
03:38
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Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d”
02:20
57
Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms”
03:33
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Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet”
02:25
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Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live”
03:28
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Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira”
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