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Offer,Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Alfred Deller (Oberon), Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius), Heather Harper (Helena), Josephine Veasey (Hermia), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Owen Brannigan (Bottom), Norman Lumsden (Quince)

London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin...

It hardly needs saying that Britten's direction of his piece is superlative...In this Dream, Britten combines the sense of atmosphere and beauty of tone...And it is an enthralling experience. — Gramophone Magazine, May 1967 More…
  • Catalogue No: 4256632
  • Label: Decca
  • Series: Opera Sets
  • Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

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Contents

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Work length2:23:32
$45.10
$61.50
  • Elizabeth Harwood (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), David Kelly (bass), Norman Lumsden (bass), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Stephen Terry (voice), Robert Tear (tenor), Alfred Deller (countertenor), Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano), Heather Harper (soprano), Ian Wodehouse (treble), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Keith Raggett (tenor), Gordon Clark (treble), Kenneth McDonald (tenor), Helen Watts (contralto), Richard Dakin (treble), Owen Brannigan (bass), John Pryor (treble)
  • London Symphony Orchestra, Choir of Downside School, Purley, Emanuel School Wandsworth, Boys' Choir
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Recorded: 1966-09-23
  • Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

"Over Hill, Over Dale"

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"Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"

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"Well, Go Thy Way"

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"How Now My Love?"

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"Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"

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"Welcome Wanderer!"

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"Is All Our Company Here?"

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"Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"

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"Through the Forest Have I Gone"

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"Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"

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"Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"

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"You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"

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"What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"

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Introduction: The wood

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"Are We All Met?"

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"I See Their Knavery"

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"Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"

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"Hail, Mortal, Hail!"

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"I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"

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"How Now, Mad Spirit?"

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"Flower Of This Purple Dye"

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"Puppet? Why So?"

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"This Is Thy Negligence"

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"Up and down, Up and Down"

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"On the Ground, Sleep Sound"

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"My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"

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"Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"

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"When My Cue Comes, Call Me"

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"Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"

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"Now, Fair Hippolyta"

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"If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"

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"Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"

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"In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"

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"O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"

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"O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"

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"You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"

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"This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"

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"Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"

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"Asleep, My Love?"

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"Come, Your Bergomask"

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"Now the Hungry Lion Roars"

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