Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): A Midsummer Night's Dream - Richard Hickox - City of London Sinfonia
Opera | Contemporary | 2CD | EACRip | APE+LOG+CUE | Covers| 532MB
Label: Virgin | Year of release: 2007 | DDD
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opera in three Acts
Libretto: From the play by Shakespeare adapted by Britten and Pears
Oberon: James Bowman
Tytania: Lillian Watson
Puck: Dexter Fletcher
Lysander: John Graham-Hall
Demetrius: Henry Herford
Hermia: Della Jones
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox
Amazon review:
As soon as you hear the glissandi double basses at the opening of this opera you will enter the world of Titania and Oberon.Britten captures this other worldliness by making Oberon a counter-tenor,a vocal quality both strange and powerful in this magical world. Childrens voices add to the atmosphere of delicacy; Puck circles the world and Titania -a high lyric soprano idles away with some of the most heart moving arias.
Britten's use of a small orcheatra creates all the varied colour needed for the fairy world and that of the mechanicals.
Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the best 'stories' there is and in the hands of Britten becomes even more 'fantastic'.I can't recommend it highly enough to someone who has never tried a Britten opera...you will be amazed!
Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Introduction: The wood, deepening twilight / Over hill, over dale
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Oberon is passing fell and wrath
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Well, go thy way
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. How now my love?
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Welcome wanderer... I know a bank
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Is all our company here?
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Through the forest have I gone
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. You spotted snakes with double tongue
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. What thou seest when thou dost wake
14. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Introduction: The wood
15. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Are we all met?
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I see their knavery
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Be kind and courteous to this gentlemen
18. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Hail, mortal, hail!
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I have a reas'nable good ear in music
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. How now, mad spirit?
Disc: 2
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Flower of this purple dye
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Puppet? Why, so?
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. This is thy negligence
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Up and down, up and down
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. On the ground, sleep sound
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Introduction: The wood, early next morning / My gentle Robin, seest thou this
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. When my cue comes, call me
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Have you sent to Bottom's house?
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Now, fair Hippolyta
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. If we offend, it is with our good will
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. In this same interlude it doth befall
14. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black
15. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present
18. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Come, your Bergomask
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Now the hungry lion roars
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