CD1
Act 1
No 1: Overture. Poco più che andante – Larghetto – Gavotta[5’13]
No 2, Recitative: Still silence reigns around (Mandane/Arbaces)[0’29]
No 3, Duettino: Fair Aurora, pr’ythee stay (Mandane/Arbaces)[2’17]
No 4, Recitative: Alas, thou know’st that for my Love of thee (Arbaces/Mandane)[1’13]
No 5, Air: Adieu, thou lovely Youth (Mandane)[3’22]
No 6, Recitative: O cruel parting! (Arbaces/Artabanes)[0’57]
No 7, Air: Amid a thousand racking Woes (Arbaces)[4’38]
No 8, Recitative: Be firm my Heart (Artabanes/Artaxerxes)[1’26]
No 9, Air: Behold, on Lethe’s dismal Strand (Artabanes)[3’37]
No 10, Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (Semira/Artaxerxes)[0’29]
No 11, Air: Fair Semira, lovely Maid (Artaxerxes)[3’26] Christopher Ainslie (countertenor)
No 12, Recitative: I fear some dread Disaster (Semira/Rimenes)[1’29]
No 13, Air: When real Joys we miss (Rimenes)[1’59]
No 14, Recitative: Ye Gods, Protectors of the Persian Empire (Semira)[0’36]
No 15, Air: How hard is the Fate (Semira)[4’01] Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
No 16, Recitative: Where do I fly? (Mandane/Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Rimenes/Arbaces)[3’24]
No 17, Air: Thy Father! away, I renounce the soft Claim (Artabanes)[1’24]
No 18, Recitative: Ye cruel Gods, what Crime have I committed? (Arbaces)[0’14]
No 19, Air: Acquit thee of this foul Offence (Semira)[1’27] Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
No 20, Recitative: Appearance, I must own, is strong against me (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Rimenes/Mandane)[0’48]
No 21, Air: O too lovely, too unkind (Arbaces)[4’25]
No 22, Recitative: Dear and beloved Shade of my dead Father (Mandane)[0’49]
No 23, Air: Fly, soft Ideas, fly (Mandane)[5’01]
Act 2
No 1, Recitative: Guards, speed ye to the Tower (Artaxerxes/Artabanes)[0’38] Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Andrew Staples (tenor)
No 2, Air: In Infancy, our Hopes and Fears (Artaxerxes)[2’12]
No 3, Recitative: So far my great Resolve succeeds (Artabanes/Arbaces)[1’28]
No 4, Air: Disdainful you fly me (Arbaces)[2’46]
No 5, Recitative: Why, my dear Friend, so pensive, so inactive? (Rimenes/Artabanes/Semira)[2’05]
No 6, Air: To sigh and complain (Rimenes)[1’51]
No 7, Recitative: How many Links to dire Misfortune’s Chain! (Semira/Mandane)
No 8, Air: If o’er the cruel Tyrant Love (Mandane)[3’01]
CD2
No 9, Recitative: Which fatal Evil shall I first oppose? (Semira)[0’31]
No 10, Air: If the River’s swelling Waves (Semira)[2’34]
No 11, Recitative: Ye solid Pillars of the Persian Empire (Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes/Rimenes/Semira/Arbaces)[5’00]
No 12, Air: By that belov’d Embrace (Arbaces)[3’31]
No 13, Recitative: Ah me! at poor Arbaces parting (Mandane/Artabanes)[0’46] Andrew Staples (tenor)
No 14, Air: Monster, away! (Mandane)[2’36]
No 15a, Recitative: See, lov’d Semira! (Artaxerxes/Semira)[1’02] Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Rebecca Bottone (soprano)
No 15b, Recitative: At last my soul has room (Artabanes)[0’38] Andrew Staples (tenor)
No 16, Air: Thou, like the glorious Sun (Artabanes)[4’59]
Act 3
No 1, Arietta: Why is Death for ever late (Arbaces)[2’58]
No 2, Recitative: Arbaces! (Artaxerxes/Arbaces)[1’14]
No 3, Air: Water parted from the Sea (Arbaces)[2’19]
No 4, Recitative: That Front, secure in conscious Innocence (Artaxerxes)[0’26]
No 5, Air: Tho’ oft a Cloud, with envious Shade (Artaxerxes)[3’38]
No 6, Recitative: My Son, Arbaces – where art thou retir’d? (Artabanes/Rimenes)[1’52]
No 7, Air: O let the Danger of a Son (Rimenes)[2’15]
No 8, Recitative: Ye adverse Gods! (Artabanes)[0’41]
No 9, Air: O, much lov’d Son, if Death (Artabanes)[5’15]
No 10, Recitative: Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces (Mandane/Semira)[1’34]
No 11, Air: Let not Rage thy Bosom firing (Mandane)[4’25]
No 12, Recitative: What have I done! alas, I vainly thought (Semira)[0’24]
No 13, Air: ‘Tis not true, that in our Grief (Semira)[4’08]
No 14, Recitative: Nor here my searching Eyes can find Mandane (Arbaces/Mandane)[1’20]
No 15, Duetto: For thee I live, my Dearest (Arbaces/Mandane)[3’38]
No 16, Recitative: To you my People, much belov’d, I offer (Artaxerxes/Artabanes/Semira/Mandane)[2’20]
No 17, Air: The Soldier, tir’d of War’s Alarms (Mandane)[3’33]
No 18, Recitative: Behold my King, Arbaces at thy Feet (Arbaces/Artaxerxes/Mandane/Artabanes)[2’26]
No 19, Chorus: Live to us, to Empire live[3’26]
