Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream – Sylvia McNair, Brian Asawa, Robert Lloyd & London Symphony Orchestra

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 / Act 1: "Over hill, over dale"

Carl Ferguson, David Newman, Claudia Conway & Sara Rey

3:52

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Oberon is passing fell and wrath"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

3:19

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Well, go thy way"

Brian Asawa, Carl Ferguson, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:39

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "How now my love?"

Ruby Philogene, John Mark Ainsley, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

4:27

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull"

Paul Whelan, Brian Asawa, Janice Watson & London Symphony Orchestra

3:40

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

Brian Asawa, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

5:46

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Is all our company here?"

Neal Davies, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell & Ian Bostridge

6:36

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood"

Ruby Philogene, John Mark Ainsley, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:22

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Through the forest have I gone"

Carl Ferguson, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:38

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius"

Paul Whelan, Ruby Philogene, Janice Watson & John Mark Ainsley

5:14

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "Come, now a roundel and a fairy song"

Sylvia McNair, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

2:12

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "You spotted snakes with double tongue"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

2:21

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 1: "What thou seest when thou dost wake"

Brian Asawa, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

2:24

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: Introduction: The wood

London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:21

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Are we all met?"

Neal Davies, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell & Ian Bostridge

6:48

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "I see their knavery"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

3:12

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Be kind and courteous to this gentleman"

Sylvia McNair, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:35

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Hail, mortal, hail!"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

5:09

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "I have a reas'nable good ear in music"

Robert Lloyd, Sylvia McNair, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

5:00

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "How now, mad spirit?"

Carl Ferguson, Paul Whelan, Ruby Philogene & Brian Asawa

2:50

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Flower of this purple dye"

Carl Ferguson, Paul Whelan, Brian Asawa & John Mark Ainsley

6:29

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Puppet? Why so?"

Ruby Philogene, Janice Watson, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:28

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "This is thy negligence"

Carl Ferguson, Brian Asawa, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:51

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "Up and down, up and down"

Carl Ferguson, Paul Whelan, Ruby Philogene & John Mark Ainsley

5:37

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 2: "On the ground, sleep sound"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

3:12

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?"

Carl Ferguson, Brian Asawa, Sylvia McNair & London Symphony Orchestra

8:05

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"

Paul Whelan, Ruby Philogene, John Mark Ainsley & Janice Watson

6:14

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "When my cue comes, call me"

Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:38

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Have you sent to Bottom's house?"

Neal Davies, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell & Ian Bostridge

4:51

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Now, fair Hippolyta"

Paul Whelan, Ruby Philogene, Brian Bannatyne-Scott & Hilary Summers

4:49

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "If we offend, it is with our good will"

Neal Davies, Robert Lloyd, Gwynne Howell & Ian Bostridge

1:25

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show"

Gwynne Howell, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:27

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "In this same interlude it doth befall"

Mark Tucker, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:06

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black"

Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:54

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans"

Ian Bostridge, Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

2:27

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear"

Stephen Richardson, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

0:51

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "This lanthorn doth the horned moon present"

Neal Davies, Stephen Richardson, Ian Bostridge & London Symphony Orchestra

1:59

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams"

Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

1:52

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

Ian Bostridge, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

2:29

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Come, your Bergomask"

Brian Bannatyne-Scott, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

3:05

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Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Opera in Three Acts, Op. 64 - Act 3: "Now the hungry lion roars"

David Newman, Claudia Conway, Sara Rey & Matthew Long

5:11