Artaxerxes - SACD

SACD 1:       
Act One       
1. Overture (Poco più che andante - Larghetto - Gavotta)     -     5:13
2. Recitative: Still silence reigns around     -     0:29
3. No.1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay     -     2:16
4. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my love to thee     -     1:13
5. No.2, Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth     -     3:21
6. Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive?     -     0:57
7. No.3, Air: Amid a thousand racking woes     -     4:38
8. Recitative: Be firm, my heart     -     1:26
9. No.4, Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand     -     3:36
10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay     -     0:29
11. No.5, Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid     -     3:26
12. Recitative: I fear some dread disaster?     -     1:29
13. No.6, Air: When real joy we miss     -     1:59
14. Recitative: Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire     -     0:36
15. No.7, Air: How hard is the fate     -     4:01
16. Recitative: Whither do I fly?     -     3:23
17. No.8, Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim     -     1:23
18. Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed     -     0:14
19. No.9, Air: Acquit thee of this foul offence     -     1:27
20. Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me     -     0:48
21. No.10, Air: O too lovely, too unkind     -     4:24
22. Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade     -     0:48
Act Two       
23. No.11, Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly     -     5:03
24. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower     -     0:37
25. No.12, Air: In infancy, our hopes and fears     -     2:12
26. Recitative: So far my great resolve succeeds     -     1:28
27. No.13, Air: Disdainful you fly me     -     2:46
28. Recitative: Why, my dear friend, so pensive, so inactive?     -     2:05
29. No.14, Air: To sigh and complain     -     1:51
30. Recitative: How many links to dire misfortune's chain     -     1:12
31. No.15, Air: If o'er the cruel tyrant love     -     3:00
       
SACD 2:       
Act Two (continued)       
1. Recitative: Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?     -     0:31
2. No.16, Air: If the river's swelling waves     -     2:34
3. Recitative: Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire     -     5:00
4. No.17, Air: By that belov'd embrace     -     3:31
5. Recitative: Ah me, at poor Arbaces' parting     -     0:46
6. No.18, Air: Monster, away     -     2:36
7. Recitative: See, lov'd Semira     -     1:02
8. Accompanied recitative: At last my soul has room     -     0:38
9. No.19, Air: Thou, like the glorious sun     -     5:02
Act Three       
10. No.20, Air: Why is death for ever late     -     2:57
11. Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heav'n, what's this I see?     -     1:13
12. No.21, Air: Water parted from the sea     -     2:19
13. Recitative: That face, secure in conscious innocence     -     0:25
14. No.22, Air: Though oft a cloud with envious shade     -     3:38
15. Recitative: My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir'd?     -     1:52
16. No.23, Air: O let the danger of a son     -     2:15
17. Accompanied recitative: Ye adverse Gods!     -     0:41
18. No.24, Air: O, much lov'd son, if death     -     5:15
19. Recitative: Perhaps the King releas'd Arbaces     -     1:34
20. No.25, Air: Let not rage, thy bosom firing     -     4:24
21. Recitative: What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought     -     0:24
22. No.26, Air: 'Tis not true that in our grief     -     4:08
23. Recitative: Nor here my searching eyes can find Mandane     -     1:20
24. No.27, Duetto: For thee I live, my dearest     -     3:37
25. Recitative: To you, my people, much belov'd     -     2:20
26. No.28, Air: The soldier, tir'd of war's alarms     -     3:33
27. Recitative: Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet     -     2:25
28. No.29, Finale: Live to us, to Empire live     -     3:26