Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Over hill, over dale, thorough bush" (Fairies, Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Moth, Mustardseed, Puck)
   4:12
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Oberon is passing fell and wrath" (Fairies, Oberon, Tytania)
   3:04
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Well, go thy way, thou shalt not from this grove" (Oberon, Puck)
   3:44
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "How now my love?" (Lysander, Hermia)
   4:29
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act I: "Be it on Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull" (Oberon, Demetrius, Helena)
   3:41
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   A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE: Welcome wanderer! ... I know a bank (Oberon)
   5:04
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Is all our company here?" (Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Snug)
   7:37
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood" (Lysander, Hermia)
   2:43
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   Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Through the frost have I gone" (Puck, Hermia)
   1:39
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Stay, thou thou kill me, sweet Demetrius" (Helena, Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia)
    5:08
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song" (Tytania)
    2:04
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "You spotted snakes with double tongues" (Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Moth, Mustardseed, Fairies)
    2:23
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 1: "What thou seest when thou dost wake" (Oberon)
    2:11
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: Introduction
    3:27
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Are we all met?" (Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Snug, Quince, Puck)
    7:23
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "I see their knavery" (Bottom, Tytania, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed)
    3:14
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Be kind and courteous to this gentleman" (Tytania)
    1:16
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Hail mortal hail" (Bottom, Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Moth, Mustardseed, Tytania)
    5:36
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "I have reas'nable good ear in music" (Bottom, Tytania)
    5:21
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "How now, mad spirit?" (Oberon, Puck, Demetrius, Hermia)
    2:50
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Flower of this purple dye" (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Helena, Demetrius, Hermia)
    6:47
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Puppet? Why, so? Ay, that way goes the game" (Hermia, Helena, Lysander, Demetrius, Puck)
    3:41
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "This is thy negligence still thou mistak'st" (Oberon, Puck)
    1:48
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "Up and down, up and down" (Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
    6:51
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 2: "On the ground, sleep sound" (Fairies)
    3:13
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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)
    8:07
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!" (Demetrius, Lysander, Helena, Hermia)
    7:10
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "When my cue comes, call me" (Bottom)
    4:26
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Have you sent to Bottom's house?" (Quince, Starveling, Flute, Snout, Snug, Bottom)
    5:13
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Now, fair Hippolyta" (Theseus, Hippolyta, Helena, Hermia, Lysander, Demetrius)
    5:20
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "If we offend, it is with our good will" (Quince, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Starveling, Snug, Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia)
    1:23
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show" (Quince, Helena, Demetrius)
    1:28
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "In this same interlude it doth befall" (Snout, Hermia, Lysander, Theseus)
    1:11
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black" (Bottom, Theseus)
    1:57
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans" (Flute, Bottom, Snout, Hippolyta, Theseus)
    2:47
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "You ladies, you whose gemtle hearts do fear" (Snug, Hermia, Demetrius, Theseus)
    0:50
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "This lanthorn doth the horned moon present" (Starveling, Lysander, Theseus, Demetrius, Hippolyta, Helena, Hermia, Flute, Snug)
    1:56
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" (Bottom, Hippolyta, Demetrius, Theseus)
    1:59
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Asleep, my love?" (Flute, Theseus, Lysander, Bottom)
    2:48
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Come, your Bergomask" (Theseus, Tutti)
    2:58
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    Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act 3: "Now the hungry lions roars" (Cobweb, Peaseblossom, Moth, Mustardseed, Puck, Oberon, Tytania, Fairies)
    4:52

A Warner Classics/Erato Release, © 1993 Parlophone Records Limited

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