A Midsummer Night's Dream (overture, incidental music and play)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (overture, incidental music and play)
Lynne Dawson (Soprano) Susanne Mentzer (mezzo) / Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Jeffrey Tate

[ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 13 March 2006

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Mendelssohn's youthful genius produced hardly anything more attractive, fresh and sparkling than the music for Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Especially the overture has become a repertoire piece on its own. Not to mention the Wedding March….

How often have you seen or heard the play together with the music? Chances are that the answer is "never”. Now here is an opportunity to rectify this. On this double-CD we have combined the two components: orchestra and actors.

Listening to this production makes you an aural witness to the entire play. You can hear soloists Lynne Dawson and Susanne Mentzer with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, but also members of the Peter Hall Company reciting texts from the here slightly abridged play

An unusual production with a special attraction for Shakespeare and theatre lovers.

Tracks:

CD 1
1. Overture, Op. 21: Allegro di molto 12:29
ACT 1. SCENE 1
2. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour/ Draws on apace 2:24
3. Ay me, for aught that ever I could read…. (Lysander/Hermia/Helena) 2:33
SCENE 2
4. Is all our company here?... (Quince/Bottom/Flute/Starveling/Snout) 3:23
5. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 4:36
ACT II SCENE 1
6. How now, spirit, whither wander you?... (Puck/Fairy) L’istesso tempo 2:12
7. Allegro vivace 1:06
8. I met by moonlight, proud Titania… (Oberon/Titania) 2:34
9. Allegro vivace 0:15
10. Well, go thy way… (Oberon/Puck) / Allegro vivace 1:59
11. I love thee not, therefore pursue me not… (Demetrius/Helena) 1:13
12. Fare thee well, nymph… (Oberon/Puck) Allegro vivace 1:25
SCENE 2
13. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song… (Titania) 4:36
14. What thou seest when thou dost wake…(Oberon) 0:28
15. Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood… (Lysander/Hermia) 1:00
16. Through the forest have I gone… (Puck)/ Andante – Allegro molto 1:03
17. Stay though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius 2:29
18. Intermezzo: Allegro appassionato – Allegro molto comodo 3:05

Total: 48:55


CD 2
ACT III SCENE 1
1. Are we all met?... (Bottom/Quince/Puck/Flute/Snout)/ Allegro 3:46
2. What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?... 4:20
SCENE 2
3. I wonder if Titania be awaked… (Oberon/ Puck/Demetrius/Hermia)/ 3:41
4. Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?... 4:46
5. Stay, gentle Helena, hear my excuse 4:33
6. This is thy negligence… (Oberon/Puck) 2:06
7. Up and down, up and down 4:02
8. Nocturne: Con moto tranquillo 6:29
ACT IV SCÈNE I
9. Her dotage now I do begin to pity…(Oberon/Titania/Puck)/ 3:00
10. My lord, this is my daughter here asleep… (Egeus/Theseus)/ 1:00
11. Wedding March: Allegro vivace 5:13
ACT V
12. ‘Tis strange,my Theseus, that these lovers speak of 3:24
13. In this same interlude it doth befall 3:19
14. This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard 2:07
15. Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams 2:15
16. How chance Moonshine is gone 1:42
17. A Dance of Clowns: Allegro di molto 1:28
18. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve… (Theseus) 0:30
19. Allegro vivace 0:52
20. Now the hungry lion roars… (Puck) 0:46
21. Through the house give glimmering light 2:51
22. Now until the break of day…(Oberon/Puck) 2:36

Total: 65:13