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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

James Bowman (Oberon), Lillian Watson (Tytania), John Graham-Hall (Lysander), Henry Herford (Demetrius), Della Jones (Hermia), Jill Gomez (Helena), Norman Bailey (Theseus), Penelope Walker (Hippolyta)

City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

this sumptuous Abbey Road recording features a strong cast — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…
  • Release Date: 11th Oct 2010
  • Catalogue No: 6406212
  • Label: Erato
  • Series: The Opera Series
  • Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Work length2:33:51
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  • James Bowman (countertenor), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Henry Herford (baritone), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Dexter Fletcher (narrator), Lilian Watson (soprano), John Graham-Hall (tenor), Andrew Gallacher (bass), Jill Gomez (soprano), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Richard Suart (bass), Norman Bailey (baritone), Robert Horn (tenor), Penelope Walker (mezzo-soprano), Roger Bryson (baritone)
  • Trinity Boys' Choir, City of London Sinfonia
  • Richard Hickox
  • Recorded: 1990-11-19
  • Recording Venue: 13-16 & 18-19 November 1990 / No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, Act One, Introduction: Over hill, over dale (Fairies / Puck)

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Oberon is passing fell and wrath (Fairies / Oberon / Tytania)

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Well, go thy way (Oberon / Puck)

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How now my love? (Lysander / Hermia)

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Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull (Oberon / Demetrius / Helena)

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Welcome wanderer! ... I know a bank (Oberon)

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Is all our company here? (Quince / Bottom / Flute / Snout / Starveling / Snug)

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Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood (Lysander / Hermia)

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Through the frost have I gone (Puck / Hermia)

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Stay, thou thou kill me, sweet Demetrius (Helene / Demetrius / Lysander / Hermia)

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Come, now a roundel and a fairy song (Tytania)

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You spotted snakes with double tongues (Fairies)

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What thou seest when thou dost wake (Oberon)

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Introduction

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Are we all met? (Bottom / Flute / Snout / Starveling / Snug / Quince / Puck)

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I see their knavery (Bottom / Tytania / Solo fairies)

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Be kind and courteous to this gentleman (Tytania)

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Hail! mortal, hail! (Solo fairies / Bottom / Tytania)

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I have reas'nable good ear in music (Bottom / Tytania)

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How now, mad spirit? (Oberon / Puck / Demetrius / Hermia)

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Flower of this purple dye (Oberon / Puck / Lysander / Helena / Demetrius / Hermia)

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Puppet? Why, so? Ay, that way goes the game (Hermia / Helena / Lysander / Demetrius)

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This is thy negligence (Oberon / Puck)

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Up and down, up and down (Puck / Lysander / Demetrius / Helena / Hermia)

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On the ground, sleep sound (Fairies)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE, Introduction: My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight? (Oberon / Tytania / Puck)

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Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! (Demetrius / Lysander / Helena / Hermia)

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When my cue comes, call me (Bottom)

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Have you sent to Bottom's house? (Quince / Starveling / Flute / Snout / Snug / Bottom)

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Now, fair Hippolyta (Theseus / Hippolyta / Hermia / Lysander / Demetrius)

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If we offend, it is with our good will (Rustics)

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Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show (Prologue: Quince)

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In this same interlude it doth befall (Wall: Snout)

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O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black (Pyramus: Bottom)

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O wall, full often has thou heard my moans (Thisby: Flute / Pyramus / Wall)

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You ladies, you whose gemtle hearts do fear (Lion: Snug)

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This lanthorn doth the horned moon present (Moonshine: Starveling / Thisby / Lion)

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Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (Pyramus)

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Asleep, my love? (Thisby / Bottom)

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Come, your Bergomask (Theseus)

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Now the hungry lions roars (Solo fairies / Puck / Oberon / Tytania / Fairies)

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