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

Libretto: Sir Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten, Choir of Downside School, Purley, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Deller (Countertenor), David Kelly (Bass), Elizabeth Harwood (Soprano), Gordon Clark (Child's Voice), Heather Harper (Soprano), Helen Watts (Alto), Ian Wodehouse (Child's Voice), John Pryor (Child's Voice), John Shirley-Quirk (Baritone), Josephine Veasey (Mezzo-soprano), Keith Raggett (Tenor), Kenneth McDonald (Tenor), Norman Lumsden (Bass), Owen Brannigan (Bass), Richard Dakin (Child's Voice), Robert Tear (Tenor), Sir Peter Pears (Tenor), Stephen Terry (Voice), Thomas Hemsley (Baritone)
℗ 1993

  • Act I

    • 1. 'Over hill, over dale' (Fairies, Puck)
      04:04
    • 2. 'Oberon is passing fell and wrath' (Fairies, Oberon, Titania)
      03:06
    • 3. 'Well, go thy way' (Oberon, Puck)
      03:25
    • 4. 'How now my love?' (Lysander, Hermia)
      04:33
    • 5. 'Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull' (Oberon, Demetrius, Helena)
      03:40
    • 6. 'Welcome, wanderer!' (Oberon)
      04:30
    • 7. 'Is all our company here?' (Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snug, Snout, Starveling)
      07:37
    • 8. 'Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood' (Lysander, Hermia)
      02:41
    • 9. 'Through the forest have I gone' (Puck, Hermia)
      01:45
    • 10. 'Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius' (Helena, Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia)
      05:15
    • 11. 'Come, now a roundel and a fairy song' (Titania)
      01:59
    • 12. 'You spotted snakes with double tongue' (Fairies)
      02:14
    • 13. 'What thou seest when thou dost wake' (Oberon)
      01:47

  • Act II

    • 1. The Wood
      03:20
    • 2. 'Are we all met?' (Bottom, Quince, Flute, Snug, Snout, Starveling, Puck)
      07:36
    • 3. 'I see their knavery' (Bottom, Titania, Fairies)
      03:05
    • 4. 'Be kind and courteous to this gentleman' (Titania, Fairies, Bottom)
      01:17
    • 5. 'Hail, mortal, hail!' (Fairies, Bottom, Titania)
      05:14
    • 6. 'I have a reas'nable good ear in music' (Bottom, Titania)
      03:39
    • 7. 'How now, mad spirit?' (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Hermia)
      03:06
    • 8. 'Flower of this purple dye' (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Helena, Lysander, Hermia)
      06:32
    • 9. 'Puppet? Why so?' (Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, Lysander)
      03:04
    • 10. 'This is thy negligence' (Oberon, Puck)
      02:10
    • 11. 'Up and down, up and down' (Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
      06:02
    • 12. 'On the ground, sleep sound' (Fairies)
      03:05

  • Act III

    • 1. 'My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?' (Oberon, Titania, Puck)
      07:08
    • 2. 'Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!' (Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, Hermia)
      04:46
    • 3. 'When my cue comes, call me' (Bottom)
      03:37
    • 4. 'Have you sent to Bottom's house?' (Quince, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Snug)
      03:10
    • 5. 'Now, fair Hippolyta' (Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
      07:25
    • 6. 'If we offend, it is with our good will' (Rustics, Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
      01:20
    • 7. 'Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show' (Rustics, Helena, Demetrius)
      01:16
    • 8. 'In this same interlude it doth befall' (Snout as Wall, Hermia, Lysander, Theseus)
      01:11
    • 9. 'Grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!' (Bottom as Pyramus, Theseus, Bottom)
      01:52
    • 10. 'Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans' (Flute as Thisby, Pyramus, Wall, Hippolyta, Theseus)
      02:30
    • 11. 'You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear' (Snug as Lion, Hermia, Demetrius, Theseus)
      00:47
    • 12. 'This lanthorn doth the horned moon present' (Starveling as Moonshine, Lysander, Theseus, Demetrius, Hippolyta, Thisby, Lion, Helena)
      01:51
    • 13. 'Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams' (Pyramus, Hippolyta, Demetrius, Theseus)
      01:52
    • 14. 'Asleep, my love?' (Thisby, Lysander, Theseus, Bottom)
      02:32
    • 15. 'Come, your Bergomask' (Theseus, All)
      02:46
    • 16. 'Now the hungry lion roars' (Fairies, Puck, Oberon, Titania)
      05:04

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