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Studio recording, 1995
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.64 / Act 1
"Over hill, over dale"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op.64 - Act 1
"Oberon is passing fell and wrath"
"Well, go thy way"
"How now my love?"
"Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream / Act 1
"Welcome wanderer!"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op.64 - Act 1
"Is all our company here?"
"Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood"
"Through the forest have I gone"
"Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius"
"Come, now a roundel and a fairy song"
"You spotted snakes with double tongue"
"What thou seest when thou dost wake"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op.64 - Act 2
Introduction: The wood
"Are we all met?"
"I see their knavery"
"Be kind and courteous to this gentleman"
"Hail, mortal, hail!"
"I have a reas'nable good ear in music"
"How now, mad spirit?"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op.64 - Act 3
"My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?"
"Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"
"When my cue comes, call me"
"Have you sent to Bottom's house?"
"Now, fair Hippolyta"
"If we offend, it is with our good will"
"Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show"
"In this same interlude it doth befall"
"O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black"
"O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans"
"You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear"
"This lanthorn doth the horned moon present"
"Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams"
"Asleep, my love?"
"Come, your Bergomask"
"Now the hungry lion roars"
Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op.64 - Act 2
"Flower of this purple dye"
"Puppet? Why so?"
"This is thy negligence"
"Up and down, up and down"
"On the ground, sleep sound"
November 2012
****
“Scintillating pace and quality, with Brian Asawa's classy Oberon and Robert Lloyd's Bottom outstanding. Sylvia McNair's Tytania is beautiful but mannered.”
December 1996
“Everything is heard with great clarity, the sensuousness of Britten's ravishing score, with all its mysterious harmonies and sonorities, is fully realized, action and reaction among the singers are keenly heard...Another plus for the new set is the casting of the lovers with young singers in their early prime.”
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"Over hill, over dale"
