32Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?”
33Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 16, Air: “If the river’s swelling waves”
34Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ye solid pillars of the Persian Empire”
35Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 17, Air: “By that belov’d embrace”
36Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “Ah me, at poor Arbaces’ parting”
37Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 18, Air: “Monster, away”
38Artaxerxes, Act II: Recitative: “See, lov’d Semira”
39Artaxerxes, Act II: Accompanied recitative: “At last my soul has room”
40Artaxerxes, Act II: No. 19, Air: “Thou, like the glorious sun”
41Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 20, Air: “Why is death for ever late”
42Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Arbaces! Gracious Heav’n”
43Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 21, Air: “Water parted from the sea”
44Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “That face, secure in conscious innocence”
45Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 22, Air: “Though oft a cloud with envious shade”
46Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “My son, Arbaces... where art thou retir’d?”
47Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 23, Air: “O let the danger of a son”
48Artaxerxes, Act III: Accompanied recitative: “Ye adverse Gods!”
49Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 24, Air: “O, much lov’d son, if death”
50Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Perhaps the King releas’d Arbaces”
51Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 25, Air: “Let not rage, thy bosom firing”
52Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “What have I done? Alas, I vainly thought”
53Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 26, Air: “’Tis not true that in our grief”
54Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Nor here my searching eyes”
55Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 27, Duetto: “For thee I live, my dearest”
56Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “To you, my people, much belov’d”
57Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 28, Air: “The soldier, tir’d of war’s alarms”
58Artaxerxes, Act III: Recitative: “Behold, my King, Arbaces at thy feet”
59Artaxerxes, Act III: No. 29, Finale: “Live to us, to Empire live”
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