A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Album by Benjamin Britten & Alfred Deller & Elizabeth Harwood & Peter Pears & Thomas Hemsley & Josephine Veasey & Heather Harper & Stephen Terry & John Shirley‐Quirk & Helen Watts & Owen Brannigan & Norman Lumsden & Kenneth MacDonald & David Kelly & Robert Tear & Keith Raggett & London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

A Midsummer Night's Dream is an opera by the English composer Benjamin Britten, composed and premiered in 1960. The score blends lyrical vocal writing with colourful orchestration and theatrical choral textures, drawing on twentieth-century harmonies and Britten's characteristic handling of voice and ensemble, and it marks a notable development in his mid-career focus on English-language stage works.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. Introduction / "Over hill, over dale"
    4:04
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Oberon is passing" / "Ill met by moonlight"
    3:06
  3. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Well, go thy way"
    3:25
  4. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "How now, my love?"
    4:33
  5. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "(Be it on Lion...)" / "I love thee not"
    3:40
  6. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Welcome, wanderer!" / "I know a bank"
    4:30
  7. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Is all our company here?"
    7:37
  8. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Fair love, you faint with wand'ring"
    2:41
  9. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Through the forest have I gone"
    1:45
  10. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Stay, tho' thou kill me, sweet Demetrius"
    5:15
  11. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song"
    1:59
  12. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "You spotted snakes"
    2:14
  13. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act I. "What thou seest when thou dost wake"
    1:54
  14. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. Introduction
    3:20
  15. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Are we all met?"
    7:36
  16. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "I see their knavery"
    3:05
  17. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Be kind and courteous"
    1:17
  18. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Hail, mortal, hail!"
    5:14
  19. 19.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "I have a reas'nable good ear in music"
    3:39
  20. 20.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "How now, mad spirit"
    3:06

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Flower of this purple dye"
    6:32
  2. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Puppet? why so?"
    3:05
  3. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "This is thy negligence..."
    2:09
  4. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "Up & Down"
    6:02
  5. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act II. "On the ground, sleep sound"
    3:11
  6. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 1. Introduction / "My gentle Robin"
    7:12
  7. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 1. "Helena! - Hermia!"
    4:46
  8. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 1. "When my cue comes, call me"
    3:37
  9. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 1. "Have you sent to Bottom's house?"
    3:09
  10. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. Orchestral March / "Now, fair Hippolyta"
    7:24
  11. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "If we offend, it is with our good will"
    1:20
  12. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show"
    1:16
  13. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "In the same interlude"
    1:10
  14. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "O grim-look'd night"
    1:51
  15. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans"
    2:30
  16. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "You Ladies, you"
    0:46
  17. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "This lanthorn doth the horned Moon present"
    1:50
  18. 19.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams..."
    1:52
  19. 20.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "Asleep, my Love? What, dead my dove?"
    2:32
  20. 21.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "Come, your Bergomask"
    2:46
  21. 22.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act III, Scene 2. "Now the hungry lion roars"
    5:03

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