A Midsummer Night's Dream

Album by Felix Mendelssohn & William Shakespeare & The Peter Hall Company & Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest & Jeffrey Tate

A Midsummer Night's Dream is incidental music by the German composer Felix Mendelssohn, composed in 1842. The score is a Romantic-era orchestral work that uses lyrical string lines, agile woodwind motifs and bright orchestral colour to evoke the play's fairy world, and it occupies an important place in Mendelssohn's output as a mature example of his theatrical and symphonic writing.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture
    12:29
  2. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour / Draws on apace...
    2:24
  3. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Ay me, for aught that ever I could read...
    2:33
  4. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Is all our company here?
    3:23
  5. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo
    4:36
  6. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: How now, spirit, whither wander you?
    2:12
  7. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Allegro vivace
    1:06
  8. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
    2:34
  9. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Allegro vivace
    0:15
  10. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Well, go thy way...
    1:59
  11. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: I love thee not, therefore pursue me not...
    1:13
  12. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fare thee well, nymph...
    1:25
  13. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song
    4:36
  14. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: What thou seest when thou dost wake
    0:28
  15. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood
    1:00
  16. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Through the forest have I gone...
    1:02
  17. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Stay though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius...
    2:29
  18. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Intermezzo
    3:05

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Are we all met?
    3:46
  2. 3.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
    4:20
  3. 4.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: I wonder if Titania be awaked...
    3:41
  4. 5.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?
    4:46
  5. 6.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse...
    4:33
  6. 7.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: This is thy negligence...
    2:06
  7. 8.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Up & Down / Up & Down
    4:02
  8. 9.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nocturne
    6:29
  9. 10.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Her dotage now I do begin to pity...
    3:00
  10. 11.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: My lord, this is my daughter here asleep...
    1:00
  11. 12.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Wedding march
    5:31
  12. 13.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of...
    3:24
  13. 14.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: In this same interlude it doth befall...
    3:19
  14. 15.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard...
    2:07
  15. 16.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams...
    2:15
  16. 17.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: How chance moonshine is gone...
    1:42
  17. 18.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: A dance of clowns
    1:28
  18. 19.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve...
    0:30
  19. 20.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Allegro vivace
    0:52
  20. 21.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Now the hungry lion roars
    0:46
  21. 22.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Through the house give glimmering light...'
    2:51
  22. 23.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Now until the break of day
    2:36

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