A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

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Release credits

• Benjamin Britten
  conductor
• The English Opera Group Orchestra
  performing orchestra

Issues

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  A
  (Combined release view)
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  A
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  2x CD (World Premier (1960) Aldeburgh recording)
  2016