A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Album by Benjamin Britten & City of London Sinfonia & Richard Hickox

A Midsummer Night's Dream is an opera by the English composer Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1960. The work combines operatic vocal writing for soloists and chorus with inventive, often colourful orchestration and a blend of tonal lyricism and modernist harmonic techniques, marking a mature statement in Britten's operatic output and an important work in mid-20th-century British opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Introduction: The wood, deepening twilight / Over hill, over dale
    4:12
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Oberon is passing fell and wrath
    3:04
  3. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Well, go thy way
    3:44
  4. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. How now my love?
    4:29
  5. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull
    3:41
  6. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Welcome wanderer... I know a bank
    5:04
  7. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Is all our company here?
    7:37
  8. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
    2:43
  9. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Through the forest have I gone
    1:39
  10. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius
    5:08
  11. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song
    2:04
  12. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. You spotted snakes with double tongue
    2:19
  13. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. What thou seest when thou dost wake
    2:11
  14. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Introduction: The wood
    3:27
  15. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Are we all met?
    7:23
  16. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. I see their knavery
    3:14
  17. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Be kind and courteous to this gentlemen
    1:16
  18. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Hail, mortal, hail!
    5:36
  19. 19.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. I have a reas'nable good ear in music
    5:21
  20. 20.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. How now, mad spirit?
    2:50

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Flower of this purple dye
    6:47
  2. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Puppet? Why, so?
    3:41
  3. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. This is thy negligence
    1:48
  4. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Up and down, up and down
    6:51
  5. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. On the ground, sleep sound
    3:29
  6. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Introduction: The wood, early next morning / My gentle Robin, seest thou this sweet sight?
    8:07
  7. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!
    7:10
  8. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. When my cue comes, call me
    4:26
  9. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Have you sent to Bottom's house?
    5:13
  10. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Now, fair Hippolyta
    5:20
  11. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. If we offend, it is with our good will
    1:23
  12. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show
    1:28
  13. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. In this same interlude it doth befall
    1:11
  14. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black
    1:57
  15. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
    2:47
  16. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
    0:50
  17. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present
    1:56
  18. 19.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
    1:59
  19. 20.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Asleep, my love?
    2:48
  20. 21.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Come, your Bergomask
    2:58
  21. 22.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Now the hungry lion roars
    4:52

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