Movements
- 1 Overture (Poco più che Andante - Larghetto - Gavotta)
- 2 Act I
- 3 Fair Aurora prithee stay, duettino (Larghetto) [Mandane and Arbaces]
- 4 Adieu thou lovely youth (Andante) [Mandane]
- 5 Amid a thousand racking woes (Allegro) [Arbaces]
- 6 Behold on Lethes dismal strand (Larghetto) [Artabanes]
- 7 Fair Semira, lovely maid [Artaxerxes]
- 8 When real joys we miss (Moderato Allegro) [Rimenes]
- 9 How hard is the fate (Allegro) [Semira]
- 10 Thy father away [Artabanes]
- 11 Acquit thee of this foul offence (Andante) [Semira]
- 12 O too lovely, too unkind [Arbaces]
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- 13 Fly soft ideas, fly (Allegro) [Mandane]
- 14 Act II
- 15 In infancy our hopes and fears (Andante) [Artaxerxes]
- 16 Disdainful you fly me in anger (Andante) [Arbaces]
- 17 To sigh and complain (Allegro) [Rimenes]
- 18 If o'er the cruel tyrant Love (Andante) [Mandane]
- 19 If the rivers swelling waves (Allegro) [Semira]
- 20 By that belov'd embrace (Largo) [Arbaces]
- 21 Monster away from cheerful day (Presto) [Mandane]
- 22 Thou like the glorious sun (Andante con molto) [Artabanes]
- 23 Act III
- 24 Why is death for ever late (Larghetto) [Arbaces]
- 25 Water parted from the sea (Andante) [Arbaces]
- 26 Tho' oft a cloud with envious shade (Presto) [Artaxerxes]
- 27 O let the danger of a son (Andante con Spirito) [Rimenes]
- 28 O much lov'd son (Siciliana Largo - Presto - primo tempo - Presto - Andante) [Artabanes]
- 29 Let not rage thy bosom firing (Andante Amoroso) [Mandane]
- 30 'Tis not true that in our grief (Andante Larghetto) [Semira]
- 31 For thee I live my dearest, duett [Mandane & Arbaces]
- 32 The soldier tir'd of wars alarms (Andante) [Mandane]
- 33 [Final Chorus - lost]
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