Britten, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox - A Midsummer Night's Dream
| Genre: | Classical |
| Singer: | Britten |
| Title: | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Short-info: | Label:
Virgin Classics – VCD 7 59305 2
Type: 2 x CD Box Set, Slip Case Country: UK & Europe Date of released: 1993 Category: Classical Style: Modern, Opera |
| MP3 album size .rar: | 1694 mb |
| APE album size .rar: | 1784 mb |
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Tracklist
| Act One | ||
| 1-1 | Introduction: The Wood, Deepening Twilight/Over Hill, Over Dale | 4:14 |
| 1-2 | Oberon Is Passing Fell And Wrath | 3:04 |
| 1-3 | Well, Go Thy Way | 3:45 |
| 1-4 | How Now My Love? | 4:30 |
| 1-5 | Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull | 3:41 |
| 1-6 | Welcome Wanderer!... I Know A Bank | 5:04 |
| 1-7 | Is All Our Company Here? | 7:37 |
| 1-8 | Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In The Wood | 2:44 |
| 1-9 | Through The Forest Have I Gone | 1:39 |
| 1-10 | Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius | 5:09 |
| 1-11 | Come, Now A Roundel And A Fairy Song | 2:05 |
| 1-12 | You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue | 2:20 |
| 1-13 | What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake | 2:12 |
| Act Two | ||
| 1-14 | Introduction: The Wood | 3:28 |
| 1-15 | Are We All Met? | 7:23 |
| 1-16 | I See Their Knavery | 3:14 |
| 1-17 | Be Kind And Courteous To This Gentleman | 1:17 |
| 1-18 | Hail, Mortal, Hail! | 5:37 |
| 1-19 | I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music | 5:22 |
| 1-20 | How Now, Mad Spirit? | 2:51 |
| 2-1 | Flower Of This Purple Dye | 6:50 |
| 2-2 | Puppet? Why, So? | 3:42 |
| 2-3 | This Is Thy Negligence | 1:49 |
| 2-4 | Up And Down, Up And Down | 6:51 |
| 2-5 | On The Ground, Sleep Sound | 3:29 |
| Act Three | ||
| 2-6 | Introduction: The Wood, Early Next Morning/My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight? | 8:08 |
| 2-7 | Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! | 7:11 |
| 2-8 | When My Cue Comes, Call Me | 4:27 |
| 2-9 | Have You Sent To Bottom's House? | 5:13 |
| 2-10 | Now, Fair Hippolyta | 5:21 |
| 2-11 | If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will | 1:23 |
| 2-12 | Gentles, Perchance You Wonder At This Show | 1:29 |
| 2-13 | In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall | 1:12 |
| 2-14 | O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black | 1:57 |
| 2-15 | O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans | 2:47 |
| 2-16 | You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear | 0:50 |
| 2-17 | This Lanthorn Doth The Horned Moon Present | 1:56 |
| 2-18 | Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams | 2:00 |
| 2-19 | Asleep, My Love? | 2:48 |
| 2-20 | Come, Your Bergomask | 2:58 |
| 2-21 | Now The Hungry Lion Roars | 4:53 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Classics Limited
- Copyright (c) – Virgin Classics Limited
- Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios
Credits
- Baritone Vocals [Bottom] – Donald Maxwell
- Baritone Vocals [Demetrius] – Henry Herford
- Baritone Vocals [Lysander] – John Graham-Hall
- Baritone Vocals [Quince] – Roger Bryson
- Baritone Vocals [Starveling] – Richard Suart
- Choir – Trinity Boys Choir
- Composed By – Benjamin Britten
- Conductor – Richard Hickox
- Countertenor Vocals [Oberon] – James Bowman*
- Engineer – Mark Vigers
- Engineer [Assistant] – Ashley Alexander
- Executive Producer – Simon Foster*
- Libretto By [Adaption] – Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears
- Libretto By [Based on the play by] – William Shakespeare
- Liner Notes – Christopher Palmer
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Hermia] – Della Jones
- Orchestra – City Of London Sinfonia
- Producer – Andrew Keener
- Soprano Vocals [Helena] – Jill Gomez
- Soprano Vocals [Hippolyta] – Penelope Walker
- Soprano Vocals [Tytania] – Lilian Watson
- Tenor Vocals [Flute] – Adrian Thompson
- Tenor Vocals [Snout] – Robert Horn
- Vocals [Puck] – Dexter Fletcher
Notes
Based on the Opera London Production (Director: David Meyer, Designer: Anabel Temple)Recorded at Studio 1, Abbey Road, London, November 1990
℗ 1993 Virgin Classics Ltd
© 1993 Virgin Classics Ltd
Printed in Germany, Made in Holland
Includes 188 page booklet with Notes and Full Libretto in English,German and French
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 7777 59305 2 8
- Label Code: LC7873
- SPARS Code: DDD











