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JONES, DELLA
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
3 Compact Disc
11 Oct 2010
Ordercode: 6406212
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Other participants: James Bowman * Della Jones * Lilian Watson * Jill Gomez * a.o. * City of London Sinfonia * Richard Hickox
Audio sample & Tracklisting
| Disc 1 | |
| 01 | Over hill, over dale (Fairies/Puck): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE, Introduction - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 02 | Oberon is passing fell and wrath (Fairies/Oberon/Tytania): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 03 | Well, go thy way (Oberon/Puck): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 04 | How now my love? (Lysander/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 05 | Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull (Oberon/Demetrius/Helena): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 06 | Welcome wanderer! ... I know a bank (Oberon): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 07 | Is all our company here? (Quince/Bottom/Flute/Snout/Starveling/Snug): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 08 | Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood (Lysander/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 09 | Through the frost have I gone (Puck/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 10 | Stay, thou thou kill me, sweet Demetrius (Helene/Demetrius/Lysander/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 11 | Come, now a roundel and a fairy song (Tytania): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 12 | You spotted snakes with double tongues (Fairies): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 13 | What thou seest when thou dost wake (Oberon): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT ONE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 14 | Introduction: A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 15 | Are we all met? (Bottom/Flute/Snout/Starveling/Snug/Quince/Puck): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 16 | I see their knavery (Bottom/Tytania/Solo fairies): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 17 | Be kind and courteous to this gentleman (Tytania): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 18 | Hail! mortal, hail! (Solo fairies/Bottom/Tytania): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 19 | I have reas'nable good ear in music (Bottom/Tytania): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 20 | How now, mad spirit? (Oberon/Puck/Demetrius/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| Disc 2 | |
| 01 | Flower of this purple dye (Oberon/Puck/Lysander/Helena/Demetrius/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 02 | Puppet? Why, so? Ay, that way goes the game (Hermia/Helena/Lysander/Demetrius): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT T - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 03 | This is thy negligence (Oberon/Puck): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 04 | Up and down, up and down (Puck/Lysander/Demetrius/Helena/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 05 | On the ground, sleep sound (Fairies): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT TWO - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 06 | My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight? (Oberon/Tytania/Puck): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE, Intr - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 07 | Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! (Demetrius/Lysander/Helena/Hermia): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 08 | When my cue comes, call me (Bottom): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 09 | Have you sent to Bottom's house? (Quince/Starveling/Flute/Snout/Snug/Bottom): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THR - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 10 | Now, fair Hippolyta (Theseus/Hippolyta/Hermia/Lysander/Demetrius): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 11 | If we offend, it is with our good will (Rustics): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 12 | Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show (Prologue: Quince): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 13 | In this same interlude it doth befall (Wall: Snout): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 14 | O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black (Pyramus: Bottom): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 15 | O wall, full often has thou heard my moans (Thisby: Flute/Pyramus/Wall): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 16 | You ladies, you whose gemtle hearts do fear (Lion: Snug): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 17 | This lanthorn doth the horned moon present (Moonshine: Starveling/Thisby/Lion): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT T - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 18 | Sweet moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams (Pyramus): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 19 | Asleep, my love? (Thisby/Bottom): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 20 | Come, your Bergomask (Theseus): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 21 | Now the hungry lions roars (Solo fairies/Puck/Oberon/Tytania/Fairies): A Midsummer Night's Dream Op. 64, ACT THREE - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| Disc 3 | |
| 01 | Libretto: A Midsummer Night's Dream - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |
| 02 | Synopsis: A Midsummer Night's Dream - James Bowman/Lillian Watson/Dexter Fletcher/Norman |