Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)

The Parley Of Instruments, Roy Goodman, Patricia Spence & Thomas Arne

Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 3, Recit. So Far My Great Resolve Succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)

01:32

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 4, Air. Disdainful You Fly Me (Arbaces)

03:00

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 5, Recit. Why, My Dear Friend, so Pensive, so Inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)

02:11

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 6, Air. To Sigh and Complain (Rimenes)

01:51

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 7, Recit. How Many Links to Dire Misfortune's Chain! (Semira/Mandane)

01:14

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 8, Air. If o'er the Cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)

02:41

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Which Fatal Evil Shall I First Oppose? (Semira)

00:26

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 10, Air. If the River's Swelling Waves (Semira)

02:45

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Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

00:00

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 11, Recit. Ye Solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)

05:27

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)

03:22

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Ah Me! At Poor Arbaces Parting (Mandane/Artabanes)

00:50

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 14, Air. Monster, Away! (Mandane)

02:34

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 15, Recit. See, Lov'd Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira/Artabanes)

01:55

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air. Thou, Like the Glorious Sun (Artabanes)

03:24

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 1, Arietta. Why Is Death for Ever Late (Arbaces)

03:04

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 2, Recit. Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)

01:26

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 3, Air. Water Parted from the Sea (Arbaces)

02:44

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 4, Recit. That Front, Secure in Conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)

00:22

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 5, Air. Tho' Oft a Cloud, with Envious Shade (Artaxerxes)

03:46

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 6, Recit. My Son, Arbaces – Where Art Thou Retir'd? (Artabanes/Rimenes)

02:16

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 7, Air. O Let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)

02:13

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Ye Adverse Gods! (Artabanes)

00:46

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 9, Air. O, Much Lov'd Son, If Death (Artabanes)

05:19

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Perhaps the King Releas'd Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)

01:25

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 11, Air. Let Not Rage Thy Bosom Firing (Mandane)

04:17

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 12, Recit. What Have I Done! Alas, I Vainly Thought (Semira)

00:26

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 13, Air. 'Tis Not True, That in Our Grief (Semira)

05:00

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 14, Recit. Nor Here My Searching Eyes Can Find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)

01:13

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 15, Duetto. For Thee I Live, My Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)

03:42

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 16, Recit. To You My People, Much Belov'd, I Offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)

02:37

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 17, Air. The Soldier, Tir'd of War's Alarms (Mandane)

03:27

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 18, Recit. Behold My King, Arbaces at Thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)

02:50

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 19, Chorus. Live to Us, to Empire Live

03:30

Arne: Artaxerxes (English Orpheus 33)

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Arne: Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 12, Air. By That Belov'd Embrace (Arbaces)

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