A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Britten; Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Thomas Hemsley, Marjorie Thomas, April Cantelo, Owen Brannigan, Peter Pears, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Live Album by Britten; Alfred Deller, Jennifer Vyvyan, Thomas Hemsley, Marjorie Thomas, April Cantelo, Owen Brannigan, Peter Pears, English Opera Group Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Released 2016

Tracklist

CD 1: Acts I and II (beginning)
1
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. Introduction… “Over hill, over dale”
Benjamin Britten
3:58
2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Oberon is passing… Ill met by moonlight”
Benjamin Britten
2:56
3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Well, go thy way”
Benjamin Britten
3:05
4
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “How now, my love?”
Benjamin Britten
4:22
5
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “(Be it on Lion…)… I love thee not”
Benjamin Britten
3:32
6
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Welcome, wanderer!… I know a bank”
Benjamin Britten
4:31
7
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Is all our company here?”
Benjamin Britten
7:16
8
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Fair love, you faint with wand’ring”
Benjamin Britten
2:36
9
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Through the forest I have gone”
Benjamin Britten
1:47
10
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Stay, tho’ thou kill me, sweet Demetrius”
Benjamin Britten
5:01
11
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “Come, now a roundal, and a fairy song”
Benjamin Britten
1:56
12
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “You spotted snakes”
Benjamin Britten
2:05
13
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act I. “What thou seest when thou sodt wake”
Benjamin Britten
2:04
14
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. Introduction
Benjamin Britten
2:44
15
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Are we all met?”
Benjamin Britten
7:17
16
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “I see their knavery”
Benjamin Britten
3:06
17
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Be kind and courteous”
Benjamin Britten
1:17
18
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Hail, mortal, hail”
Benjamin Britten
4:33
19
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “I have a reas’nable good ear in music”
Benjamin Britten
4:16
20
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “How now, mad spirit”
Benjamin Britten
2:37
CD 2: Acts II (conclusion) & III
1
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Flower ofthe purple dye”
Benjamin Britten
6:08
2
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Puppet? Why so?”
Benjamin Britten
2:52
3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “This is thy negligence”
Benjamin Britten
2:14
4
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “Up and down”
Benjamin Britten
5:36
5
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act II. “On the ground, sleep sound”
Benjamin Britten
3:00
6
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. Introduction / “My gentle Robin”
Benjamin Britten
6:59
7
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Helena! ‐ Hermia!”
Benjamin Britten
4:54
8
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “When my cue comes, call me”
Benjamin Britten
3:27
9
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Have you sent to Bottom’s house?”
Benjamin Britten
3:07
10
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Orchestral march / “Now, fair Hippolyta”
Benjamin Britten
6:56
11
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “If we offend it is with our good will”
Benjamin Britten
1:07
12
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show”
Benjamin Britten
1:09
13
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “In this same interlude”
Benjamin Britten
0:57
14
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “O grim‐look’d night”
Benjamin Britten
1:45
15
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans”
Benjamin Britten
2:21
16
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “You ladies, you”
Benjamin Britten
0:41
17
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “This lanthorn dost the hornèd Moon present”
Benjamin Britten
1:34
18
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Sweet Moon, I thank the for thy sunny beams”
Benjamin Britten
1:45
19
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Asleep my Love? What, dead, my dove?”
Benjamin Britten
2:33
20
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Come, your Bergomask”
Benjamin Britten
2:31
21
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Act III. “Now the hungry lion roars”
Benjamin Britten
4:54