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• Following the highly acclaimed production at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Classical Opera Company presents Artaxerxes, recorded to celebrate the 300th anniversary of composer Thomas Arne.
• This is the first complete recording of one of the most important and successful of all English operas, with the lost Finale realised most effectively by Duncan Druce.
• Composer Thomas Arne, most famous for composing ‘Rule Britannia’, also won fans in Mozart and Haydn with his opera Artaxerxes that remained in the London repertoire almost continuously from its premiere in 1762 until the 1830s.
• This stunning, but rarely recorded, opera has many well-known arias including ‘The soldier tir'd’, originally made famous by Joan Sutherland and sung here by Elizabeth Watts (“A lyric soprano as ravishing as one could possibly want” IRR).
BBC Music Magazine
"...here it is presented complete and to a consistently high standard."
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The Scotsman
"[A] classy, crystal clear recording."
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Pizzicato
"...est rendu dans une lecture vivante, avec d'excellents chanteurs..."
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The Observer
"Elizabeth Watts and Rebecca Bottone shine under Ian Page's crisp direction."
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North London News
"...the singing is both intensely musical and full of acute psychological nuance..."
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The Sunday Times
"Christopher Ainslie is outstanding in the title role."
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SA-CD.net
"I cannot recommend this too strongly...this is truly a set to banish the wintry gloom!"
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Classical Opera Company - Thomas Arne - Artaxerxes
CD 1
01. Overture (poco piu che andante - Larghetto - Gavotta) (5:13) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
02. Recitative: Still silence reigns around (0:29)
03. No.1, Duettino: Fair Aurora, prithee stay (2:17) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
04. Recitative: Alas, thou know'st that for my love to thee (1:14)
05. No.2, Air: Adieu, thou lovely youth (3:22) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
06. Recitative: O cruel parting! How can I survive? (0:57)
07. No.3, Air: Amid a thousand racking woes (4:39) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
08. Recitative: Be firm, my heart (1:27)
09. No.4, Air: Behold, on Lethe's dismal strand (3:37) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
10. Recitative: Stay, Artaxerxes, stay (0:30)
11. No.5, Air: Fair Semira, lovely maid (3:26) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
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) >>> Posłuchaj fragmentu <<<
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)
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