The Midsummer Marriage: Opera in Three Acts

Album by Sir Michael Tippett & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Colin Davis & Alberto Remedios & Joan Carlyle & Elizabeth Harwood & Stuart Burrows & Helen Watts & Stafford Dean & Elizabeth Bainbridge

The Midsummer Marriage: Opera in Three Acts is an opera by English composer Michael Tippett, first performed in 1955. Musically it blends lyrical modernism, folk-inflected motifs and intricate choral and orchestral textures around a symbolist libretto, and it occupies a mid-career position in Tippett's output, reflecting his engagement with mythic and psychological themes in post-war British opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: This Way! This Way!
    3:45
  2. 2.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: What's That? Surely Music?
    1:06
  3. 3.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I (Leading to:)
    0:51
  4. 4.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: Stop! Stop! Stop!
    5:00
  5. 5.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: O, Mark, Who Are They / Jenifer, Jenifer My Darling
    7:17
  6. 6.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: What Steps Are Those? / Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho...
    5:19
  7. 7.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: What Sort of Place Is This D'You Think?
    3:57
  8. 8.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: So You, So You Are Marke's Fine Brood of Friends
    2:56
  9. 9.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: So You, So You, So You're the Company My Daughter Keeps!
    1:54
  10. 10.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: Here I Am, Sir, What Can I Do? / Jenifer! Jenifer! My Daughter Jenifer!
    8:14
  11. 11.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: Returning to the Earth Is Cruel
    2:09
  12. 12.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: Come Now With Me and Drop This Childish Masquerade
    4:37
  13. 13.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: Is It So Strange...
    5:56
  14. 14.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: You, You Who Were With Me When She Left Me
    4:08
  15. 15.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act I: See by a Heavenly Magic in This Glass
    4:40
  16. 16.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: Call-Crying as They're Flying... / Jack, Don't Let's Go With All the Others
    4:01
  17. 17.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: What Day Is It?
    3:57
  18. 18.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: I'll Lay the Baby to My Breast / (Strephon Enters From Behind the Temple)
    4:21
  19. 19.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II (Some of the Trees Appear to Move)
    1:56

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: 1st Dance: The Earth in Autumn
    3:54
  2. 3.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: 2nd Dance: The Waters in Winter
    4:59
  3. 4.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II: 3rd Dance: The Air in Spring
    2:50
  4. 5.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II (Leading to:) / Ah! They'll Kill Him!
    5:10
  5. 6.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act II (Neat and Ready to Rejoin) King Fisher / Sun Shines on a Midsummer Day
    2:19
  6. 7.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Evening and Night / Ohay! Ohay!
    4:47
  7. 8.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: No! King Fisher Summons You... / Keep the Holster Close by You
    2:29
  8. 9.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Now, Bella, Call the Ancients
    3:04
  9. 10.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Do You Accept My Challenge? / See, Where We Carry on Our Mighty Shoulder
    3:49
  10. 11.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: I Needn't Tell Madame Sosostris
    2:25
  11. 12.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Who Hopes to Conjure With the World of Dreams
    2:54
  12. 13.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: I Alone Cannot Consult Myself
    4:14
  13. 14.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: You Who Consult Me
    2:26
  14. 15.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: I See a Meadow
    3:30
  15. 16.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: She Saw What Happens in the Soul
    5:02
  16. 17.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Pride Is Virtue in a Man of Power
    3:16
  17. 18.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III (For a Moment the Stage Is Quite Still) / King Fisher's Dead
    3:30
  18. 19.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III (After the She Ancient Returns Up Stage) / 4th Dance: Fire in Summer
    9:08
  19. 20.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: Was It a Vision?
    2:12
  20. 21.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III: O Summer Sun
    1:27
  21. 22.
    The Midsummer Marriage: Act III (The Moonlight Has Faded Out)
    6:19

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