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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 1, Overture. Poco pi che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta (5:01) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 2, Recit. Still Silence Reigns Around (Mandane/Arbaces) (0:27) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 3, Duettino. Fair Aurora, Pr'ythee Stay (Mandane/Arbaces) (2:19) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 4, Recit. Alas, Thou Know'st That for My Love of Thee (Arbaces/Mandane) (1:18) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 5, Air. Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth (Mandane) (3:07) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 6, Recit. O Cruel Parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes) (1:10) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 7, Air. Amid a Thousand Racking Woes (Arbaces) (4:28) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 8, Recit. Be Firm My Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes) (2:00) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 9, Air. Behold, on Lethe's Dismal Strand (Artabanes) (3:37) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 10, Recit. Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay (Semira/Artaxerxes) (0:30) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 11, Air. Fair Semira, Lovely Maid (Artaxerxes) (3:08) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 12, Recit. I Fear Some Dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes) (1:28) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 13, Air. When Real Joys We Miss (Rimenes) (1:57) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 14, Recit. Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira) (0:33) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 15, Air. How Hard Is the Fate (Semira) (3:38) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 16, Recit. Where Do I Fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces) (3:56) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 17, Air. Thy Father! Away, I Renounce the Soft Claim (Artabanes) (1:37) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 18, Recit. Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Have I Committed? (Arbaces) (0:18) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 19, Air. Acquit Thee of This Foul Offence (Semira) (1:33) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 20, Recit. Appearance, I Must Own, Is Strong Against Me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane) (0:47) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 21, Air. O Too Lovely, Too Unkind (Arbaces) (4:49) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Dear and Beloved Shade of My Dead Father (Mandane) (0:48) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act I: No. 23, Air. Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly (Mandane) (5:19) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 1, Recit. Guards, Speed Ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes) (0:40) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 2, Air. In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes) (2:10) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces) (1:31) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces) (3:01) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira) (2:10) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes) (1:51) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane) (1:15) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane) (2:41) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira) (0:26) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira) (2:44) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces) (5:22) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces) (3:22) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes) (0:50) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane) (2:34) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes) (1:55) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes) (3:24) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces) (3:04) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces) (1:25) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces) (2:44) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes) (0:22) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes) (3:42) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes) (2:16) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes) (2:13) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes) (0:46) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes) (5:19) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira) (1:25) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane) (4:16) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira) (0:26) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira) (5:00) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane) (1:13) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane) (3:42) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane) (2:36) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane) (3:27) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes) (2:50) -- Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live (3:29)