Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream / McNair, Asawa, Lloyd, Bostridge, Ainsley, Summers, Watson, Sir Colin Davis
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: Philips
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- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Over hill, over dale
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Oberon is passing fell and wrath
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Well, go thy way
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: How now, my love
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Welcome, wanderer!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Is all our company here?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Throught the forest I have gone
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: Come, now a roundel, and a fairy song
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: You spotted snakes with double tongue
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1: What thou seest when thou dost awake
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Introduction: The Wood
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Are we all met?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: I see their knavery
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Hail mortal, hail!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: I have a reas'nable good ear in music
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: How now, mad spirit
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Flower of this purple dye
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Puppet? Why so?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: This is thy negligence
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: Up and down, up and down
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2: On the ground, sleep sound
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: My gentle Robin, see'st thou this sweet sight?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Helena! - Hermia! - Demetrius! - Lysander!
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: When my cue comes, call me
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Have you sent to Bottom's house?
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Now, fair Hyppolyta
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: If we offend, it is with our good will
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: In this same interlude it doth befall
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: O grim-look'd night, o night with hue so black
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: This lanthorn doth the horn?d Moon present
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Come, your Bergomask
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3: Now the hungary lion roars
Music reviews of Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream / McNair, Asawa, Lloyd, Bostridge, Ainsley, Summers, Watson, Sir Colin Davis
Music Review: A very good recording in a field with two great ones
Rating: 4 Stars
Colin Davis is a msterful conductor of Britten and Tippettt, so it seems churlish to point out that he isn't the qual of the composer himself, whose Decca recording of Midsummer Night's Dream includes the cast for whom the parts were written. That doesn't stop Davis from assembling a very convincing ensemble of voices, with Sylvia McNair and the young Ian Bostridge genuine stars. It's touching how loyal the British are to their greatest composers. The recorded sound is perfect, and the orchestra plays with exemplary precision for Davis.
The flaws are chiefly dramatic. Tytania and Oberon fret, argue, and scheme, but here Asawa sound too beautiful and feminine. Where's the king in Oberon? Sylvia McNair is also overly concerned with vocal beauty, although heaven's knows she possesses an abudance of it. For real dramatic conviction, I am drawn to the Hockox recording from 1993, which was based on a successful stage production. There, every cast member comes across as genuinely Shakespearean. But if you own either the Davis or the composer's versions, you have a wonderful recording that does justice to Britten's great and underrated score.
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