Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Choirs Of Downside And Emanuel Schools, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

41 SONGS • 2 HOURS AND 24 MINUTES • JAN 01 1967

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull"

Alfred Deller, Thomas Hemsley, Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:40

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Welcome Wanderer!"

Alfred Deller, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

04:31

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Is All Our Company Here?"

Norman Lumsden, Kenneth McDonald, Owen Brannigan, Keith Raggett, Robert Tear, David Kelly, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

07:37

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood"

Peter Pears, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:41

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Through the Forest Have I Gone"

Stephen Terry, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:45

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"

Heather Harper, Thomas Hemsley, Peter Pears, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

05:15

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "Come, Now A Roundel and A Fairy Song"

Elizabeth Harwood, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:59

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue"

Richard Dakin, John Pryor, Ian Wodehouse, Gordon Clark, Choir Of Downside School, Purley, Emanuel School Wandsworth, Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:14

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1: "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"

Alfred Deller, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:47

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: Introduction: The wood

London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:20

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Are We All Met?"

Owen Brannigan, Norman Lumsden, Kenneth McDonald, David Kelly, Robert Tear, Keith Raggett, Stephen Terry, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

07:37

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "I See Their Knavery"

Owen Brannigan, Elizabeth Harwood, John Pryor, Richard Dakin, Ian Wodehouse, Gordon Clark, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:05

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Be Kind and Courteous To This Gentleman"

Elizabeth Harwood, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:17

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"

Richard Dakin, John Pryor, Ian Wodehouse, Gordon Clark, Owen Brannigan, Elizabeth Harwood, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

05:15

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music"

Owen Brannigan, Elizabeth Harwood, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:39

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "How Now, Mad Spirit?"

Alfred Deller, Stephen Terry, Thomas Hemsley, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:06

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Flower Of This Purple Dye"

Alfred Deller, Stephen Terry, Peter Pears, Heather Harper, Thomas Hemsley, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

06:33

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Puppet? Why So?"

Josephine Veasey, Heather Harper, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Stephen Terry, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:06

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "This Is Thy Negligence"

Alfred Deller, Stephen Terry, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:10

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: "Up and down, Up and Down"

Stephen Terry, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Heather Harper, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

06:03

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 2: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2: "On The Ground, Sleep Sound"

Choir Of Downside School, Purley, Emanuel School Wandsworth, Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:05

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"

Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Stephen Terry, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

07:13

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"

Thomas Hemsley, Peter Pears, Heather Harper, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

04:47

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, Act III: When My Cue Comes, Call Me

Owen Brannigan, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:37

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Have You Sent To Bottom's House?"

Norman Lumsden, Keith Raggett, Robert Tear, Kenneth McDonald, Owen Brannigan, David Kelly, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

03:10

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Now, Fair Hippolyta"

John Shirley-Quirk, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Heather Harper, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

07:25

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will"

Owen Brannigan, Kenneth McDonald, Norman Lumsden, David Kelly, Robert Tear, Keith Raggett, John Shirley-Quirk, Helen Watts, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Heather Harper, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:20

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"

Norman Lumsden, Heather Harper, Thomas Hemsley, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:16

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"

Robert Tear, Josephine Veasey, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:11

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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"

Owen Brannigan, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:52

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"

Kenneth McDonald, Owen Brannigan, Robert Tear, Helen Watts, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:30

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"

David Kelly, Josephine Veasey, Thomas Hemsley, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

00:47

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"

Keith Raggett, Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk, Thomas Hemsley, Helen Watts, Kenneth McDonald, David Kelly, Josephine Veasey, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:51

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams"

Owen Brannigan, Helen Watts, Thomas Hemsley, John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

01:52

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Asleep, My Love?"

Kenneth McDonald, John Shirley-Quirk, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:32

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Come, Your Bergomask"

John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

02:47

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 3: "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"

Richard Dakin, John Pryor, Ian Wodehouse, Gordon Clark, Stephen Terry, Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, London Symphony Orchestra & Benjamin Britten

05:04

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