М. Мецгер в stereoplay 11/93: "Сон в летнюю ночь" Шекспира в опере Бриттена, впервые исполненной в 1960 году, - это своего рода разговор с музыкой. оркестровое оформление для сравнительно небольшого ансамбля в значительной степени обходится без собственного симфонического развития, ограничиваясь жестово-иллюстративным подчеркиванием формулировок. поющие голоса декламируют, мелодические пассажи сплетаются из плотно сплетенных моделей. искусство сокращения"

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Act One
1-1 Introduction: The Wood, Deepening Twilight/Over Hill, Over Dale 4:14
1-2 Oberon Is Passing Fell And Wrath 3:04
1-3 Well, Go Thy Way 3:45
1-4 How Now My Love? 4:30
1-5 Be It On Lion, Bear, Or Wolf, Or Bull 3:41
1-6 Welcome Wanderer!... I Know A Bank 5:04
1-7 Is All Our Company Here? 7:37
1-8 Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring In The Wood 2:44
1-9 Through The Forest Have I Gone 1:39
1-10 Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius 5:09
1-11 Come, Now A Roundel And A Fairy Song 2:05
1-12 You Spotted Snakes With Double Tongue 2:20
1-13 What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake 2:12
Act Two
1-14 Introduction: The Wood 3:28
1-15 Are We All Met? 7:23
1-16 I See Their Knavery 3:14
1-17 Be Kind And Courteous To This Gentleman 1:17
1-18 Hail, Mortal, Hail! 5:37
1-19 I Have A Reas'nable Good Ear In Music 5:22
1-20 How Now, Mad Spirit? 2:51
2-1 Flower Of This Purple Dye 6:50
2-2 Puppet? Why, So? 3:42
2-3 This Is Thy Negligence 1:49
2-4 Up And Down, Up And Down 6:51
2-5 On The Ground, Sleep Sound 3:29
Act Three
2-6 Introduction: The Wood, Early Next Morning/My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight? 8:08
2-7 Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! 7:11
2-8 When My Cue Comes, Call Me 4:27
2-9 Have You Sent To Bottom's House? 5:13
2-10 Now, Fair Hippolyta 5:21
2-11 If We Offend, It Is With Our Good Will 1:23
2-12 Gentles, Perchance You Wonder At This Show 1:29
2-13 In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall 1:12
2-14 O Grim-Look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black 1:57
2-15 O Wall, Full Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans 2:47
2-16 You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear 0:50
2-17 This Lanthorn Doth The Horned Moon Present 1:56
2-18 Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee For Thy Sunny Beams 2:00
2-19 Asleep, My Love? 2:48
2-20 Come, Your Bergomask 2:58
2-21 Now The Hungry Lion Roars 4:53