| Other author/creator | McNair, Sylvia (Soprano), performer. |
| Other author/creator | Pears, Peter, 1910-1986, librettist. |
| Other author/creator | Lloyd, Robert, 1940- performer. |
| Other author/creator | Bostridge, Ian, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Asawa, Brian performer. |
| Other author/creator | Kennedy, Michael, 1926-2014, editor. |
| Other author/creator | Davis, Colin, 1927-2013, conductor. |
| Included Work | Opera adaptation of (work): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Midsummer night's dream. |
| Other author/creator | New London Children's Choir, performer. |
| Other author/creator | London Symphony Orchestra, performer. |
| Series | Digital classics Digital classics. ^A470720 |
| Contents |
CD 1. Act. I. Over hill, over dale (3:48) ; Oberon is passing fell and wrath (3:18) ; Well, go thy ways (3:39) ; How now, my love (4:26) ; Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull (3:41) ; Welcome, wanderer! (5:44) ; Is all our company here? (6:36) ; Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood (3:21) ; Through the forest I have gone (1:37) ; Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius (5:14) ; Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song (2:12) ; You spotted snakes with double tongue (2:21) ; What thou seest when thou dost awake (2:21) -- Act II. Introduction: The Wood (3:20) ; Are we met? (6:48) ; I see their knavery (3:12) ; Be kind and courteous to this gentleman (1:34) ; Hail, mortal, hail! (5:09) ; I have a reas'nable good ear in music (4:59) ; How now, mad spirit (2:47) -- CD 2. [Act II. (continued)] Flower of this purple dye (6:28) ; Puppet? Why so? (3:27) ; This is thy negligence (1:50) ; Up and down, up and down (5:37) ; On the ground, sleep sound (3:11) -- Act III. My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight (8:06) ; Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! (6:12) ; When my cue comes, call me (3:38) ; Have you sent to Bottom's house? (4:51) ; Now, fair Hyppolyta (4:48) ; If we offend, it is with our good will (1:23) ; Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show (1:26) ; In this same interlude it doth befall (1:05) ; O grim-look'd night, o night with hue so black (1:54) ; O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans (2:26) ; You, ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear (0:51) ; This lanthorn doth the hornéd Moon present (1:56) ; Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (1:51) ; Asleep, my love? (2:29) ; Come, your Bergomask (3:04) ; Now the hungry lion roars (5:09). |
| General note | Opera in 3 acts; libretto by the composer and Peter Pears, after Shakespeare's play. |
| General note | Edition performed: Boosey & Hawkes. |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Program notes and synopsis by Michael Kennedy, and libretto with German translations (92 pages : portraits) inserted in container. |
| Performer |
Sylvia McNair ; Robert Lloyd ; Ian Bostridge ; Brian Asawa ; supporting soloists ; New London Children's Choir ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded 1995 December Barbican Centre, London. |
| Language | Sung in English. |
| LCCN | 2021616865 |
| UPC |
028945412221 |
| Publisher number | 454 122-2 Philips (container) |
| Publisher number | 454 123-2 Philips (disc 1) |
| Publisher number | 454 124-2 Philips (disc 2) |