A Midsummer Night's Dream - full audio
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten), 2006 - audio
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2h 28m
Music by kind permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Act 1
1 Introduction: The Wood - deepening twilight
Over hill, over dale
2 Oberon is passing fell and wrath 00.04.07
3 Well, go thy way 00.07.11
4 How now my love? 00.10.45
5 Be it on Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull 00.15.27
6 Welcome wanderer! … I know a bank 00.19.06
7 Is all our company here? 00.24.00
8 Fair love, you faint with wand’ring in the wood 00.31.16
9 Through the forest I have gone 00.33.56
10 Stay tho’ thou kill me, sweet Demetrius 00.35.52
11 Come, now a roundel and a fairy song 00.40.53
12 You spotted snakes with double tongue 00.43.14
13 What thou seest when thou dost wake 00.45.29
Act 2
14 Introduction: The Wood 00.48.08
15 Are we all met? 00.50.52
16 I see their knavery 00.58.16
17 Be kind and courteous to this gentleman 01.01.19
18 Hail, mortal hail! 01.02.39
19 I have a reasonable good ear in music 01.08.24
20 How now, mad spirit? 01.12.35
21 Flower of this purple dye 01.15.27
22 Puppet? Why so? 01.21.55 -
23 This is thy negligence 01.24.38
24 Up and down, up and down 01.27.03
25 On the ground, sleep sound 01.33.04
Act 3
26 Introduction: The Wood - early next morning. My gentle Robin; See’st thou this sweet sight? 01.36.58
27 Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! 01.45.09
28 When my cue comes, call me 01.51.22
29 Have you sent to Bottom’s house? 01.54.47
Change of Scene - Theseus’ Palace
30 Now, fair Hippolyta 02.00.03
31 If we offend, it is with our good will 02.05.19
32 Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show 02.06.30
33 In this same Interlude, it doth befall 02.07.47
34 O grim-look’d night, O night with hue so black 02.08.57
35 O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans 02.10.53
36 You ladies, you (whose gentle hearts do fear…) 02.13.38
37 This lanthorn doth the hornéd Moon present 02.14.24
38 Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams 02.16.13
39 Asleep, my Love? 02.18.04
40 But come, your Bergomask 02.20.31
41 Now the hungry lion roars 02.23.15