A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Over hill, over dale" (Fairies, Puck)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:51
• 2
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Oberon is passing fell and wrath" (Fairies, Oberon, Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:18
• 3
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Well, go thy way" (Oberon, Puck)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:38
• 4
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "How now, my love" (Lysanda, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:26
• 5
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull" (Oberon, Demetrius, Helena)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:39
• 6
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Welcome, wanderer!" (Oberon)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:45
• 7
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Is all our company here?" (Rustics)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:35
• 8
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Fair love, you faint with wand’ring in the wood" (Lysander, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:21
• 9
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Through the forest I have gone" (Puck)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:37
• 10
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius" (Helena, Demetrius, Lysanda, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:13
• 11
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song" (Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:11
• 12
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "You spotted snakes with double tongue" (Yaogd;)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:20
• 13
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act I. "What thou seest when thou dost awake" (Oberon)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:35
• 14
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. Introduction: the Wood

  Benjamin Britten
  3:20
• 15
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Are we all met?" (Rustics, Puck)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:47
• 16
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "I see their knavery" (Bottom, Tytania, Fairies)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:11
• 17
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Be kind and courteous to this gentleman" (Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:34
• 18
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Hail, mortal, hail!" (Fairies, Bottom, Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:08
• 19
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "I have a reas’nable good ear in music" (Bottom, Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:59
• 20
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "How now, mad spirit" (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:49
• CD 2
• 1
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Flower of this purple dye" (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Helena, Detrius, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:29
• 2
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Puppet? Why so?" (Hermia, Helena, Lysander, Demetrius)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:27
• 3
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "This is thy negligence" (Oberon, Puck)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:50
• 4
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "Up and down, up and down" (Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:36
• 5
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act II. "On the ground, sleep sound" (Fairies)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:23
• 6
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "My gentle Robin, see’st thou this sweet sight?" (Oberon, Puck, Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  8:04
• 7
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Helena! - Hermia! - Demetrius! - Lysander!" (Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  6:13
• 8
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "When my cue comes, call me" (Bottom)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:37
• 9
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Have you sent to Bottom’s house?" (Rustics)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:50
• 10
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Now, fair Hyppolyta" (Theseus, Hyppolyta, Lysander, Demerius, Helena, Hermia)

  Benjamin Britten
  4:48
• 11
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "If we offend, it is with our good will" (Rustics)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:24
• 12
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show" (Quince/Prologue)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:26
• 13
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "In this same interlude it doth befall" (Snout/Wall)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:05
• 14
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "O grim-look’d night, o night with hue so black" (Bottom/Pyramus)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:53
• 15
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans" (Flute/Thisby, Bottom/Pyramus)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:26
• 16
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear" (Snug/Lion)

  Benjamin Britten
  0:50
• 17
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "This lanthorn doth the hornèd Moon present" (Starveling/Moonshine, Flute/Thisby, Snug/Lion)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:58
• 18
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" (Bottom/Pyramus)

  Benjamin Britten
  1:51
• 19
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Asleep, my love?" (Flute/Thisby)

  Benjamin Britten
  2:28
• 20
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Come, your Bergomask" (Theseus)

  Benjamin Britten
  3:04
• 21
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64: Act III. "Now the hungry lion roars" (Fairies, Puck, Oberon, Tytania)

  Benjamin Britten
  5:10

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Release credits

• Brian Asawa
  countertenor vocals [1.2-3, 1.5-6, 1.13, 1.20, 2.1, 2.3, 2.6, 2.21]
• Brian Bannatyne‐Scott
  bass vocals [10, 20]
• Carl Ferguson
  spoken vocals [1, 3]
• Claudia Conway
  soprano vocals [1]
• David Newman
  treble vocals [1]
• Gwynne Howell
  bass vocals [2.9, 2.11-12, 1.7, 1.15]
• Hilary Summers
  contralto vocals [10]
• Ian Bostridge
  tenor vocals [1.7, 1.15, 2.9, 2.11, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19]
• Janice Watson
  soprano vocals [2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10, 1.5, 1.10]
• John Mark Ainsley
  tenor vocals [1.4, 1.8, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Mark Tucker
  tenor vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 1.7, 1.15]
• Matthew Long
  treble vocals [1]
• Neil Davies
  baritone vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.17, 1.7, 1.15]
• New London Children’s Choir
  vocal, choir vocals [1-2]
• Paul Whelan
  baritone vocals [2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 1.5, 1.10, 1.20]
• Robert Lloyd
  bass-baritone vocals [2.8-9, 2.11, 2.14-15, 2.18, 1.7, 1.15-16, 1.18-19]
• Ruby Philogene
  mezzo-soprano vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, 1.20]
• Sara Rey
  soprano vocals [1]
• Sir Colin Davis
  conductor
• Stephen Richardson
  bass vocals [2.9, 2.11, 2.16-17, 1.7, 1.15]
• Sylvia McNair
  soprano vocals [2.6, 2.21, 1.2, 1.11, 1.16-19]
• Ursula Singer
  producer, producer
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Issues

• 

  A
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 64

  2x CD
  19 November 1996
• 

  A
  A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  2x CD
  2012