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Thomas Arne
909 songs
Total 909 songs
| Title | Rating | Play |
|---|---|---|
Artaxerxes, Act One: Overture (Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta)Artaxerxes • 5:11 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Still silence reigns around” (Mandane, Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 0:29 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 1, Duettino: “Fair Aurora, prithee stay” (Mandane, Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 2:16 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act 1: Recitative: “Alas, thou know’st that for my love to thee” (Arbaces, Mandane)Artaxerxes • 1:13 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 2, Air: “Adieu, thou lovely youth” (Mandane)Artaxerxes • 3:21 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “O cruel parting! How can I survive?” (Arbaces, Mandane)Artaxerxes • 0:57 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 3, Air: “Amid a thousand racking woes” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 4:38 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Be firm, my heart” (Artabanes, Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 1:26 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 4, Air: “Behold, on Lethe’s dismal strand” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 3:36 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Stay, Artaxerxes, stay” (Semira, Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 0:29 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 5, Air: “Fair Semira, lovely maid” (Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 3:26 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “I fear some dread disaster” (Semira, Rimenes)Artaxerxes • 1:29 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 6, Air: “When real joy we miss” (Rimenes)Artaxerxes • 1:59 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye Gods, protectors of the Persian Empire” (Semira)Artaxerxes • 0:36 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 7, Air: “How hard is the fate” (Semira)Artaxerxes • 4:01 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Whither do I fly?” (Tutti)Artaxerxes • 3:23 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 8, Air: “Thy father! Away, I renounce the soft claim” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 1:23 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Ye cruel Gods, what crime have I committed” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 0:14 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 9, Air: “Acquit thee of this foul offence” (Semira)Artaxerxes • 1:27 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Recitative: “Appearance, I must own, is strong against me” (Arbaces, Artaxerxes, Rimenes, Mandane)Artaxerxes • 0:48 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 10, Air: “O too lovely, too unkind” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 4:24 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: Accompanied recitative: “Dear and beloved shade” (Mandane)Artaxerxes • 0:48 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act One: No. 11, Air: “Fly, soft ideas, fly” (Mandane)Artaxerxes • 5:03 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Guards, speed ye to the tower” (Artaxerxes, Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 0:38 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 12, Air: “In infancy, our hopes and fears” (Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 2:12 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “So far my great resolve succeeds” (Artabanes, Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 1:28 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 13, Air: “Disdainful you fly me” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 2:46 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Why, my dear friend, so pensive” (Rimenes, Artabanes, Semira)Artaxerxes • 2:05 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 14, Air: “To sigh and complain” (Rimenes)Artaxerxes • 1:51 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “How many links to dire misfortune’s chain” (Semira, Mandane)Artaxerxes • 1:12 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 15, Air: “If o’er the cruel tyrant love” (Mandane)Artaxerxes • 3:00 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?” (Semira)Artaxerxes • 0:30 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves” (Semira)Artaxerxes • 2:34 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire” (Tutti)Artaxerxes • 5:00 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 3:31 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting” (Mandane, Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 0:46 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away” (Mandane)Artaxerxes • 2:36 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira” (Artaxerxes, Semira, Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 1:02 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 0:37 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Two: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 5:03 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 2:57 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n” (Artaxerxes, Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 1:13 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea” (Arbaces)Artaxerxes • 2:19 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence” (Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 0:25 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade” (Artaxerxes)Artaxerxes • 3:38 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?” (Artabanes, Rimenes)Artaxerxes • 1:52 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son” (Rimenes)Artaxerxes • 2:15 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 0:41 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death” (Artabanes)Artaxerxes • 5:15 | ||
Artaxerxes, Act Three: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces” (Mandane, Semira)Artaxerxes • 1:34 |
