Artaxerxes - The Mozartists - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

A composer inextricably linked with London’s Covent Garden, Thomas Arne’s greatest opera, Artaxerxes, was premièred at the Theatre Royal, the predecessor of the Royal Opera House, on 2 February 1762, and remained in the Covent Garden repertory until the late 1830s – where it received a documented 111 performances before 1790. The young Mozart almost certainly attended a performance when he came to London in the mid-1760s, and Haydn was also acquainted with the work, enthusiastically exclaiming that he “had no idea we had such an opera in the English language”.

The Mozartists, under the dynamic leadership of conductor and artistic director Ian Page, are leading exponents of the music of Mozart and his contemporaries. Originally called Classical Opera, the company was founded in 1997, and has received widespread international acclaim for its stylish and virtuosic period-instrument orchestra, its imaginative and innovative programming, and its ability to nurture and develop world-class young artists.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Overture
2. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Still Silence Reigns Around
3. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, Prithee Sta
4. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Alas, Thou Know St That For M
5. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 2, Air: Adieu, Thou Lovely Youth
6. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: O Cruel Parting! How Can I Su
7. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 3, Air: Amid a Thousand Racking Woes
8. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Be Firm, My Heart
9. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 4, Air: Behold, On Lethe S Dismal Str
10. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, Stay
11. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 5, Air: Fair Semira, Lovely Maid
12. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: I Fear Some Dread Disaster
13. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 6, Air: When Real Joy We Miss
14. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Pe
15. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 7, Air: How Hard is the Fate
16. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Whither Do I Fly?
17. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 8, Air: Thy Father! Away, I Renounce
18. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Ye Cruel Gods, What Crime Hav
19. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 9, Air: Acquit Thee of This Foul Offe
20. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Recitative: Appearance, I Must Own, is St
21. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 10, Air: O Too Lovely, Too Unkind
22. Artaxerxes Act 1 - Accompanied Recitative: Dear and Beloved
23. Artaxerxes Act 1 - No. 11, Air: Fly, Soft Ideas, Fly
24. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: Guards, Speed Ye To the Tower
25. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 12, Air: In Infancy, Our Hopes and Fe
26. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: So Far My Great Resolve Succe
27. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 13, Air: Disdainful You Fly Me
28. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: Why, My Dear Friend, So Pensi
29. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 14, Air: To Sigh and Complain
30. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: How Many Links To Dire Misfor
31. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 15, Air: If O Er the Cruel Tyrant Lov

Disc 2

1. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: Which Fatal Evil Shall I Firs
2. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 16, Air: If the River S Swelling Wave
3. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: Ye Solid Pillars of the Persi
4. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 17, Air: By That Beloved Embrace
5. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: Ah Me, At Poor Arbaces Partin
6. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 18, Air: Monster, Away
7. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Recitative: See, Loved Semira
8. Artaxerxes Act 2 - Accompanied Recitative: At Last My Soul H
9. Artaxerxes Act 2 - No. 19, Air: Thou, Like the Glorious Sun
10. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 20, Air: Why is Death For Ever Late
11. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: Arbaces! Gracious Heaven
12. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 21, Air: Water Parted From the Sea
13. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: That Face, Secure In Consciou
14. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 22, Air: Though Oft a Cloud With Envi
15. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: My Son, Arbaces... Where Art
16. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 23, Air: O Let the Danger of a Son
17. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Accompanied Recitative: Ye Adverse Gods!
18. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 24, Air: O, Much Loved Son, If Death
19. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: Perhaps the King Releas D Arb
20. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 25, Air: Let Not Rage, Thy Bosom Firi
21. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: What Have I Done? Alas, I Vai
22. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 26, Air: Tis Not True That In Our Gri
23. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: Nor Here My Searching Eyes
24. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 27, Duetto: For Thee I Live, My Deare
25. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: To You, My People, Much Belov
26. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 28, Air: the Soldier, Tired of War S
27. Artaxerxes Act 3 - Recitative: Behold, My King, Arbaces At T
28. Artaxerxes Act 3 - No. 29, Finale: Live To Us, To Empire Liv

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Thomas Arne