A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Album by 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, Benjamin Britten
Tracklist
- Digital Media 1
- 1A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Over Hill, Over Dale"Benjamin Britten4:04
- 2A Midsummer Night's Dream:Act 1: "Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"Benjamin Britten3:06
- 3A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Well, Go Thy Way"Benjamin Britten3:24
- 4A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "How Now My Love?"Benjamin Britten4:32
- 5A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"Benjamin Britten3:40
- 6A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Welcome Wanderer!"Benjamin Britten4:30
- 7A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Is All Our Company Here?"Benjamin Britten7:36
- 8A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"Benjamin Britten2:41
- 9A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Through the Forest Have I Gone"Benjamin Britten1:45
- 10A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"Benjamin Britten5:14
- 11A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"Benjamin Britten1:58
- 12A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"Benjamin Britten2:14
- 13A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1: "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"Benjamin Britten1:46
- 14A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: Introduction: The woodBenjamin Britten3:19
- 15A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Are We All Met?"Benjamin Britten7:36
- 16A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "I See Their Knavery"Benjamin Britten3:05
- 17A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"Benjamin Britten1:16
- 18A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"Benjamin Britten5:14
- 19A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"Benjamin Britten3:39
- 20A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "How Now, Mad Spirit?"Benjamin Britten3:05
- Digital Media 2
- 1A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Flower Of This Purple Dye"Benjamin Britten6:32
- 2A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Puppet? Why So?"Benjamin Britten3:05
- 3A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "This Is Thy Negligence"Benjamin Britten2:09
- 4A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: "Up and down, Up and Down"Benjamin Britten6:02
- 5A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2: "On The Ground, Sleep Sound"Benjamin Britten3:04
- 6A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"Benjamin Britten7:12
- 7A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"Benjamin Britten4:46
- 8A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: When My Cue Comes, Call MeBenjamin Britten3:37
- 9A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"Benjamin Britten3:09
- 10A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Now, Fair Hippolyta"Benjamin Britten7:24
- 11A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"Benjamin Britten1:20
- 12A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"Benjamin Britten1:16
- 13A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"Benjamin Britten1:10
- 14A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"Benjamin Britten1:51
- 15A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"Benjamin Britten2:30
- 16A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"Benjamin Britten0:46
- 17A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"Benjamin Britten1:50
- 18A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"Benjamin Britten1:52
- 19A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Asleep, My Love?"Benjamin Britten2:32
- 20A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Come, Your Bergomask"Benjamin Britten2:46
- 21A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3: "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"Benjamin Britten5:03
More by 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, Benjamin Britten
Release credits
- countertenor vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.21, 1.2-3, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.20]
- conductor
- bass vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.16-17, 1.7, 1.15]
- choir vocals [2.5, 1.1-2, 1.12]
- soprano vocals [2.6, 2.21, 1.2, 1.11, 1.16-19]
- choir vocals [1.1-2, 1.12, 2.5]
- treble vocals [2.21, 1.1, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18]
- recording
- soprano vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10-12, 1.5, 1.10]
- contralto vocals [10-11, 15, 17-18]
- treble vocals [1.1, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18, 2.21]
- recording
- recording
- producer
- assistant
- treble vocals [1.1, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18, 2.21]
- mezzo-soprano vocals [1.4, 1.8-10, 1.20, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.16-17]
- baritone vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.17, 1.7, 1.15]
- tenor vocals [1.7, 1.15, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19]
- performing orchestra
- bass vocals [2.9, 2.11-12, 1.7, 1.15]
- bass-baritone vocals [1.7, 1.15-16, 1.18-19, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.14-15, 2.18-19]
- tenor vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.17, 2.19, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10]
- treble vocals [1.1, 1.12, 1.16, 1.18, 2.21]
- tenor vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15, 1.7, 1.15]
- spoken vocals [1.1, 1.3, 1.9, 1.15, 1.20, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.21]
- baritone vocals [1.5, 1.10, 1.20, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10-12, 2.16-18]
Issues
- AUnknown format (mono)1966
A1990
A2x Digital Media






