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from: Lyrita

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5020926221728
Label: Lyrita
Manufacturer: Lyrita
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Lyrita
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Studio: Lyrita
Sales Rank: 228869

Disc 1:
  1. Act 1. Scene 1. This way! This way!
  2. Act 1. Scene 1. What's that? Surely music?
  3. Act 1. Scene 2 (orchestra)
  4. Act 1. Scene 2. Stop! Stop, Stop!
  5. Act 1. Scene 3. O, Mark, who are they / Scene 4. Jenifer, Jenifer my darling.
  6. Act 1. Scene 4. What steps are those? / Scene 5. Ho, ho, ho, ho ho...
  7. Act 1. Scene 5. What sort of place is this d'you think?
  8. Act 1. Scene 6. So you, so you are Mark's fine brood of friends.
  9. Act 1. Scene 6. So you, so you, so you're the company my daughter keeps!
  10. Act 1. Scene 7. Here I am, Sir, what can I do? / Scene 8. Jenifer! Jenifer! my daughter Jenifer!
  11. Act 1. Scene 8. Returning to the earth is cruel
  12. Act 1. Scene 8. Come now with me and drop this childish masquerade
  13. Act 1. Scene 8. Is it so strange...
  14. Act 1. Scene 8. You, you who were with me when she left me
  15. Act 1. Scene 8. See by a heavenly magic in this glass
  16. Act 2. Pre Scene. Call - crying as they're flying... / Scene 1. Jack, don't lets go with all the ot
  17. Act 2. Scene 1. What day is it?
  18. Act 2. Scene 1. I'll lay the baby to my breast / Scene 2. (Strephon enters from behind the temple)
  19. Act 2. Scene 2. (Some of the trees appear to move)
Disc 2:
  1. Act 2. Scene 2. 1st Dance. The Earth in Autumn
  2. Act 2. Scene 2. 2nd Dance. The Waters in Winter
  3. Act 2. Scene 2. 3rd Dance. The Air in Spring
  4. Act 2. Scene 2. (orchestra) / Scene 3. Ah! They'll kill him!
  5. Act 2. Scene 3. King Fisher / Post Scene. Sun shines on a Midsummer day
  6. Act 3. Evening and Night / Scene 1. Ohay! Ohay!
  7. Act 3. Scene 1. No! King Fisher summons you... / Scene 2. Keep the holster close by you...
  8. Act 3. Scene 3. Now, Bella, call The Ancients
  9. Act 3. Scene 3. Do you accept my challenge? / Scene 4. See, where we carry on our mighty shoulder
  10. Act 3. Scene 5. Who hopes to conjure with the world of dreams.
  11. Act 3. Scene 5. I alone cannot consult myself.
  12. Act 3. Scene 5. You who consult me.
  13. Act 3. Scene 5. I see a meadow.
  14. Act 3. Scene 6. She saw what happens in the soul.
  15. Act 3. Scene 7. Pride is virtue in a man of power
  16. Act 3. Scene 7. (For a moment the stage is quite still) / Scene 8. King Fisher's dead
  17. Act 3. Scene 8. (After the She Ancient returns up stage) / 4th Dance. Fire in Summer
  18. Act 3. Scene 9. Was it a vision?
  19. Act 3. Scene 9. (The moonlight has faded out)
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Editorial Review:

Album Description:
"A masterpiece, in short, and one that can be listened to again and again without exhausting its exuberant generosity." -- Gramophone

Long patronized by the music establishment as an amateur because of his late start in music study, Michael Tippett (1905-1998) was to become in later years one of the most influential and respected British composers.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A great recording of a joyous, rambunctious opera
This splendid 1971 recording of Tippett's early, gorgeous masterpiece, The Midsummer Marriage, has to be considered against the fact that American listeners know nothing of the work and little more about the composer. At its premiere in 1955, ciritcs found Tippett's music difficult, which is strange, because it is tonal, richly tuneful, and bustling with rambunctious energy. They also deplored the libretto, written by the composer, which has been summarized as "a chaotic jumble of Western and Eastern mythology and symbolism, part Dr. Who, part The Magic Flute, part hippy-dippy flower-power philosophizing, part Jungian psychology, and part working class transfiguration."

To be simplistic, the libretto is basically the quirky admixture ... Read More:
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