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

Libretto: Sir Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
Richard Hickox, City of London Sinfonia, Trinity Boys Choir, Dexter Fletcher (Voice), Lillian Watson (Soprano), John Graham-Hall (Tenor), Della Jones (Mezzo-soprano), Henry Herford (Baritone), James Bowman (Countertenor), Jill Gomez (Soprano), Donald Maxwell (Baritone), Roger Bryson (Baritone), Adrian Thompson (Tenor), Richard Suart (Bass), Robert Horn (Tenor), Penelope Walker (Mezzo-soprano), Norman Bailey (Baritone)
1990

  • Act I

    • 1. "Over hill, over dale, thorough bush" (Puck, Chorus)
      04:12
    • 2. "Oberon is passing fell and wrath" (Oberon, Titania, Chorus)
      03:04
    • 3. "Well, go thy way, thou shalt not from this grove" (Oberon, Puck)
      03:45
    • 4. "How now my love?" (Lysander, Hermia)
      04:29
    • 5. "Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull" (Oberon, Demetrius, Helena)
      03:41
    • 6. "Welcome wanderer!" (Oberon)
      05:04
    • 7. "Is all our company here?" (Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling)
      07:37
    • 8. "Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood" (Lysander, Hermia)
      02:44
    • 9. "Through the frost have I gone" (Puck, Hermia)
      01:39
    • 10. "Stay, thou thou kill me, sweet Demetrius" (Helena, Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia)
      05:09
    • 11. "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song" (Titania)
      02:05
    • 12. "You spotted snakes with double tongues" (Chorus)
      02:23
    • 13. "What thou seest when thou dost wake" (Oberon)
      02:12

  • Act II

    • 1. Introduction
      03:28
    • 2. "Are we all met?" (Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Quince, Puck)
      07:23
    • 3. "I see their knavery" (Bottom, Titania)
      03:14
    • 4. "Be kind and courteous to this gentleman" (Titania)
      01:17
    • 5. "Hail mortal hail" (Bottom, Titania)
      05:37
    • 6. "I have reas'nable good ear in music" (Bottom, Titania)
      05:22
    • 7. "How now, mad spirit?" (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Hermia)
      02:51
    • 8. "Flower of this purple dye" (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Hermia)
      06:48
    • 9. "Puppet? Why, so? Ay, that way goes the game" (Hermia, Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, Puck)
      03:42
    • 10. "This is thy negligence still thou mistak'st" (Oberon, Puck)
      01:48
    • 11. "Up and down, up and down" (Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
      06:51
    • 12. "On the ground, sleep sound" (Chorus)
      03:13

  • Act III

    • 1. "My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?" (Oberon, Titania, Puck)
      08:08
    • 2. "Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!" (Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, Hermia)
      07:11
    • 3. "When my cue comes, call me" (Bottom)
      04:27
    • 4. "Have you sent to Bottom's house?" (Quince, Starveling, Flute, Snout, Bottom)
      05:13
    • 5. "Now, fair Hippolyta" (Theseus, Hippolyta, Helena, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius)
      05:21
    • 6. "If we offend, it is with our good will" (Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
      01:23
    • 7. "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show" (Quince, Helena, Demetrius)
      01:29
    • 8. "In this same interlude it doth befall" (Snout, Hermia, Lysander, Theseus)
      01:12
    • 9. "O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black" (Bottom, Theseus)
      01:57
    • 10. "O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans" (Flute, Bottom, Snout, Hippolyta, Theseus)
      02:47
    • 11. "You ladies, you whose gemtle hearts do fear" (Hermia, Demetrius, Theseus)
      00:50
    • 12. "This lanthorn doth the horned moon present" (Starveling, Lysander, Theseus, Demetrius, Hippolyta, Helena, Hermia, Flute)
      01:56
    • 13. "Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" (Bottom, Hippolyta, Demetrius, Theseus)
      02:00
    • 14. "Asleep, my love?" (Flute, Theseus, Lysander, Bottom)
      02:48
    • 15. "Come, your Bergomask" (Theseus, Puck, Titania, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Oberon, Helena, Bottom, Flute, Quince, Starveling, Snout, Hippolyta)
      02:58
    • 16. "Now the hungry lions roars" (Puck, Oberon, Tytania, Chorus)
      04:53

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All recordings of "A Midsummer Night's Dream op. 64 (1960)"