Midsummer Night's Dream

Midsummer Night's Dream

Midsummer Night's Dream
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Brand: HICKOX,RICHARD
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Music Label: Virgin Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Over Hill, Over Dale
  2. Oberon Is Passing Fell And Wrath
  3. Well, Go thy Way
  4. How Now My Love?
  5. Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull
  6. Welcome Wanderer...I Know a Bank
  7. Is All Our Company Here?
  8. Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In the Wood
  9. Through the Forest Have I Gone
  10. Stay Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius
  11. Come, Now a Roundel And a Fairy Song
  12. You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue
  13. What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake
  14. Introduction: The Wood
  15. Are We All Met?
  16. I See Their Knavery
  17. Be Kind And Courteous To This Gentlemen
  18. Hail, Mortal, Hail!
  19. I Have a Reas'nable Good Ear In Music
  20. How Now, Mad Spirit?
Music CD 2
  1. Flower Of This Purple Dye
  2. Puppet? Why, So?
  3. This Is thy Negligence
  4. Up And Down, Up And Down
  5. On the Ground, Sleep Sound
  6. My Gentle Robin, Seest Thou This Sweet Sight?
  7. Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!
  8. When My Cue Comes, Call Me
  9. Have You Sent To Bottom's House?
  10. Now, Fair Hippolyta
  11. If We Offend It, It Is With Our Good Will
  12. Gengles, Perchance You Wonder At This Show
  13. In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall
  14. O Grim-look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black
  15. O Wall, Full Often Hast Though Heard My Moans
  16. You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear
  17. This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present
  18. Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams
  19. Asleep, My Love?
  20. Come, Your Bergomask
  21. Now the Hungry Lion Roars

Music reviews of Midsummer Night's Dream

Music Review: marvelous late britten
Rating: 5 Stars

britten's operas are a splendid testament to his original musical personality, and his unique talent for putting psychology on display through the music. his manner of handling operatic voices was informed by his experience with other vocal works, from the "war requiem" to the song cycles for tenor and orchestra ("illuminations" and "serenade") to his rowdy masques for boys' chorus and piano ("the golden vanity", "friday afternoons"). he combines the virtues of janacek, berg and puccini, with a power to surprise that is uniquely his own.

like "gloriana", britten's masque in elizabethan style, "a midsummer night's dream" is distinctive for its orchestration, which includes (according to wikipedia): 2 flutes, 1 piccolo, 1 oboe, 1 English horn, 2 clarinets, 1 bassoon, recorders; 2 horns, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone; timpani, triangle, cymbals, tambourine, gong, wood blocks, vibraphone, glockenspiel, xylophone, tamburo, snare drum, tenor drum, bass drum, bells, 2 harps, harpsichord (celesta), and strings -- among all these are instruments played by the singers. britten confects a sparkling and ethereal palette of virtuosic and magical sounds from the various instrumental combinations, usually associating winds and brass with the "mechanicals" (bottom, quince, tubb, etc.), strings with the lovers hermia and helena, and chiming, tinkling percussion with the fairies (tytania, oberon and their crew).

to finish the chemistry he adds a boys' chorus, a spoken part (puck) and a countertenor role (the fairy king oberon), sung by the talented james bowman. (it's become a convenience in modern productions of baroque operas to assign a castrato role to a female mezzosoprano rather than the harder to find male countertenor, so it's a treat to hear bowman put this unique vocal tonality on display.) the libretto is a masterful distillation of shakespeare's characters and key scenes into a 2.5 hour entertainment.

this studio performance by hickox and the london sinfonia is colorful, dramatic, humorous and delightful; the sound stage is well projected, the singers clearly articulate and enact the text, the tempi are well judged and nicely contrasted, and the balance among all performers is beautifully managed.

this is a rerelease of the original edition of this opera (posted on amazon as ASIN B000002SRR). i own the original, so i can't comment on the booklet that may be included with the rerelease.

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 19-JUN-2007

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