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A Midsummer Night's Dream op. 64 (1960)

Libretto: Sir Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten, London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of Downside School, Purley, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, Alfred Deller (Countertenor), Elizabeth Harwood (Soprano), Richard Dakin (Child's Voice), John Pryor (Child's Voice), Ian Wodehouse (Child's Voice), Gordon Clark (Child's Voice), Stephen Terry (Voice), Sir Peter Pears (Tenor), Josephine Veasey (Mezzo-soprano), Thomas Hemsley (Baritone), Heather Harper (Soprano), Norman Lumsden (Bass), Kenneth McDonald (Tenor), Owen Brannigan (Bass), Keith Raggett (Tenor), Robert Tear (Tenor), David Kelly (Bass), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone), Helen Watts (Alto)
1966, London, Walthamstow Assembly Hall

  • Act I

    • 1. "Over Hill, Over Dale"
      04:04
    • 2. "Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"
      03:04
    • 3. "Well, Go Thy Way"
      03:25
    • 4. "How Now My Love?"
      04:33
    • 5. "Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"
      03:40
    • 6. "Welcome Wanderer!"
      04:30
    • 7. "Is All Our Company Here?"
      07:37
    • 8. "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"
      02:41
    • 9. "Through the Forest Have I Gone"
      01:45
    • 10. "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"
      05:15
    • 11. "Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"
      01:59
    • 12. "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"
      02:14
    • 13. "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"
      01:47

  • Act II

    • 1. Introduction: The wood
      03:20
    • 2. "Are We All Met?"
      07:36
    • 3. "I See Their Knavery"
      03:05
    • 4. "Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"
      01:17
    • 5. "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"
      05:13
    • 6. "I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"
      03:39
    • 7. "How Now, Mad Spirit?"
      03:06
    • 8. "Flower Of This Purple Dye"
      06:32
    • 9. "Puppet? Why So?"
      03:05
    • 10. "This Is Thy Negligence"
      02:10
    • 11. "Up and down, Up and Down"
      06:02
    • 12. "On the Ground, Sleep Sound"
      03:05

  • Act III

    • 1. "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"
      07:09
    • 2. "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"
      04:46
    • 3. "When My Cue Comes, Call Me"
      03:37
    • 4. "Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"
      03:10
    • 5. "Now, Fair Hippolyta"
      07:25
    • 6. "If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"
      01:20
    • 7. "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"
      01:16
    • 8. "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"
      01:11
    • 9. "O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"
      01:52
    • 10. "O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"
      02:30
    • 11. "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"
      00:47
    • 12. "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"
      01:51
    • 13. "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"
      01:52
    • 14. "Asleep, My Love?"
      02:32
    • 15. "Come, Your Bergomask"
      02:46
    • 16. "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"
      05:04

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