Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (with spoken text and melodramas in English)

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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (Sung in English) (more info)
Performed by: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Felix Mendelssohn
Conducted by: James Judd
Jenny Wollerman, soprano
Peter Kenny, narrator
Pepe Becker, soprano
Emily Raymond, reader
David Timson, reader
Gunnar Cauthery, reader
Tom Mison, reader
Anne-Marie Piazza, reader
Recording date: 8-10 September 2003


1.   Overture - 00:12:36
2.   Act I: Scherzo - 00:04:24
3.   Act II Scene 1: How now, spirit! (Puck, Fairy) - 00:02:22
4.   Act II Scene 1: Fairies' March - Ill met by moonlight (Oberon, Titania, Puck) - 00:04:19
5.   Act II Scene 2: Come, now a roundel and a fairy song (Titania) - Song with Chorus: Ye spotted snakes (First Fairy, Second Fairy, Chorus of Fairies) - 00:04:09
6.   Act II Scene 2: What thou seest, when thou dost wake (Oberon, Puck) - 00:01:38
7.   Act II: Intermezzo - 00:03:34
8.   Act III Scene 1: Come, sit down, every mother's son (Quince, Puck, Bottom, Flute, Snout, Titania, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed) - 00:06:57
9.   Act III Scene 2: I wonder if Titania be awaked (Oberon, Puck, Lysander, Demetrius, Helena, Hermia) - 00:07:04
10.   Act III: Nocturne - 00:06:03
11.   Act IV Scene 1: Her dotage now I do begin to pity… (Oberon, Titania, Puck, Theseus) - 00:05:00
12.   Act IV Scene 1: Wedding March - 00:04:44
13.   Act V Scene 1: So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd (Philostrate, Theseus, Prologue, Pyramus) - 00:02:53
14.   Act V Scene 1: Funeral March: How chance Moonshine is gone (Hippolyta, Theseus, Thisbe) - 00:01:35
15.   Act V Scene 1: A Dance of Clowns: The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve (Theseus, Puck) - 00:03:41
16.   Act V Scene 1: Through the house give glimmering light (Oberon, Titania) - 00:00:29
17.   Act V Scene 1: Song: Through the house give glimmering light (Fairies) - Now until the break of day… (Oberon, Fairies, Puck) - 00:05:11

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