Classical Opera Company - Thomas Arne - Artaxerxes

CD 1
01. Overture (poco piu che andante - Larghetto - Gavotta) (5:13)
02. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (0:29)
03. No.1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay (2:17)
04. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my love to thee (1:14)
05. No.2, Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth (3:22)
06. Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive? (0:57)
07. No.3, Air: Amid a thousand racking woes (4:39)
08. Recitative: Be firm, my heart (1:27)
09. No.4, Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand (3:37)
10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (0:30)
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 (4:02)
16. Recitative: Whither do I fly? (3:24)
17. No.8, Air: Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim (1:24)
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 (4:25)
22. Accompanied recitative: Dear and beloved shade (0:49)
23. No.11, Air: Fly, soft ideas, fly (5:03)
24. Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the tower (0:38)
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 (1:13)
31. No.15, Air: If o'er the cruel tyrant love (3:01)

CD 2
Arne: Artaxerses
01. Recitative - Which fatal evil shall I first oppose? (0:31)
02. No.16, Air - If the river?s swelling waves (2:34)
03. Recitative - Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire (5:01)
04. No.17, Air - By that belov?d embrace (3:31)
05. Recitative - Ah me, at poor Arbaces? parting (0:47)
06. No.18, Air - Monster, away (2:36)
07. Recitative - See, lov?d Semira (1:02)
08. Accompanied recitative - At last my soul has room (0:38)
09. No.19, Air - Thou, like the glorious sun (5:03)
10. No.20, Air - Why is death for ever late (2:58)
11. Recitative - Arbaces! Gracious Heav?n, what?s this I see? (1:14)
12. No.21, Air - Water parted from the sea (2:20)
13. Recitative - That face, secure in conscious innocence (0:26)
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 (5:16)
19. Recitative - Perhaps the King releas?d Arbaces (1:34)
20. No.25, Air - Let not rage, thy bosom firing (4:25)
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 (1:21)
24. No.27, Duetto - For thee I live, my dearest (3:38)
25. Recitative - To you, my people, much belov?d (2:21)
26. No.28, Air - The soldier, tir?d of war?s alarms (3:34)
27. Recitative - Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet (2:26)
28. No.29, Finale - Live to us, to Empire live (3:26)