Nocturne / Britten. A midsummer night's dream / Mendelssohn.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin
Format Audio (Streaming)
Publication Info[Hayes, Middlesex, England] : EMI Classics, [2005]
Description1 online resource.
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Other author/creatorDawson, Lynne, performer.
Other author/creatorMentzer, Susanne, performer.
Other author/creatorShakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream.
Other author/creatorTate, Jeffrey, performer.
Other author/creatorTear, Robert performer.
Included WorkMendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Sommernachtstraum.
Other author/creatorEnglish Chamber Orchestra, performer.
Other author/creatorPhilharmonisch Koor Toonkunst (Rotterdam, Netherlands), performer.
Other author/creatorRotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, performer.
Uniform titleNocturnes, tenor, orchestra, op. 60
Contents A midsummer night's dream. op. 21; op. 61 -- Nocturne for tenor solo, seven obbligato instruments and string orchestra, op. 60. On a poet's lips I slept (Shelley) ; Below the thunders of the upper deep (Tennyson) (Robin O'Neill, bassoon) ; Encinctured with a twine of leaves (Coleridge) (Thelma Owen, harp) ; Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting, ting, ting (Middleton) (Frank Lloyd, french horn) ; But that night when on my bed I lay (Wordsworth) (David Corkhill, timpani) ; She sleeps on soft, last breaths (Owen) (James Brown, cor anglais) ; What is more gentle than a wind in summer? (Keats) (William Bennett, flute; Thea King, clarinet) ; When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Shakespeare).
General notePreviously released as a compact disc.
General noteThe 1st work is incidental music; the 2nd work for tenor, 7 obligato instruments, and string orchestra.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed May 1, 2012).
Performer In the 1st work: Lynne Dawson, soprano ; Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano ; Woman of the Philharmonisch Koor Toonkunst ; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor. In the 2nd work: Robert Tear, tenor ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor.
LanguageSung in German (1st work) or English (2nd work).
Genre/formSound recordings.

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