A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Tracklist

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Disc 1

• 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Introduction: The wood, deepening twilight / Over hill, over dale 4:12
• 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Oberon is passing fell and wrath 3:04
• 3 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Well, go thy way 3:44
• 4 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. How now my love? 4:29
• 5 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull 3:41
• 6 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Welcome wanderer... I know a bank 5:04
• 7 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Is all our company here? 7:37
• 8 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood 2:43
• 9 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Through the forest have I gone 1:39
• 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius 5:08
• 11 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song 2:04
• 12 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. You spotted snakes with double tongue 2:19
• 13 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1. What thou seest when thou dost wake 2:11
• 14 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Introduction: The wood 3:27
• 15 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Are we all met? 7:23
• 16 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. I see their knavery 3:14
• 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Be kind and courteous to this gentlemen 1:16
• 18 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Hail, mortal, hail! 5:36
• 19 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. I have a reas'nable good ear in music 5:21
• 20 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. How now, mad spirit? 2:50

Disc 2

• 1 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Flower of this purple dye 6:47
• 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Puppet? Why, so? 3:41
• 3 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. This is thy negligence 1:48
• 4 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. Up and down, up and down 6:51
• 5 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 2. On the ground, sleep sound 3:29
• 6 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Introduction: The wood, early next morning / My gentle Robin, seest thou this sweet sight? 8:07
• 7 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! 7:10
• 8 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. When my cue comes, call me 4:26
• 9 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Have you sent to Bottom's house? 5:13
• 10 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Now, fair Hippolyta 5:20
• 11 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. If we offend, it is with our good will 1:23
• 12 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show 1:28
• 13 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. In this same interlude it doth befall 1:11
• 14 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black 1:57
• 15 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans 2:47
• 16 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear 0:50
• 17 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present 1:56
• 18 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams 1:59
• 19 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Asleep, my love? 2:48
• 20 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Come, your Bergomask 2:58
• 21 A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 3. Now the hungry lion roars 4:52

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