Songtexte A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Is All Our Company Her?" - Benjamin Britten feat. London Symphony Orchestra, Norman Lumsden, Kenneth McDonald, Owen Brannigan, Keith Raggett, Robert Tear & David Kelly

Is all our company here?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I think you were best before the generali

Man by man

According to the script

First, for Peter Quince, say what the play treats on thee

Married

Our play is most lamentable comedy and most tragic

Of Pyramus and Thisbe

A very good piece of work, I assure you

And a merry

No, not with the quince

Go forth

Your act and I must go

Masters, train yourselves

Answer as I told you

Nick Bottom, the Weaver

Ready

Name what thought I am full and pussy

You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus

What is Pyramus?

A lover or a tyrant?

A lover that kills himself most gallant for love

My chief humor is for the tyrant

I could play Ercles rarely or a part whate'er I care to use

Oh, make us leave the raging rocks and shivering shores

Come brave with all the prison gates

And silver scars shall shine for far

Shall shine for far and make him bar

And make him bar and simply scar shall shine

For bar and make him bar a foolish prince

This is from me

Now name the rest of the players

Francis Flute

This is a clear vain, a clear vain, a tyrant's vain, a tyrant's vain

Francis Flute

A lover is more condoning

Bellows-mender

Here Peter Quince

Flute, you must take Thisbe on you

What is Thisbe?

Thisbe?

A wandering knight

And it is the lady that Pyramus must love

May faith

Let not me play a woman

I have a beard coming

That's all one

We shall play it in a mask and you may speak as small as you will

And I may hide my face

Let me take this heat too

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice

Thisne, Thisne

Thisne

Oh, Pyramus, my lover dear

Thy Thisbe dear and lady dear

No, no

You must play Pyramus and Flute, you Thisbe

Well proceeded

Ah, Pyramus, my love

Robin Starbling, the tailor

Ah, Pyramus, my love

Thy Thisbe dear and lady dear

Here Peter Quince

Robin Starbling, you must play Thisbe's mother

Ah, Pyramus, my love

Snug the tinker

Here Peter Quince

You, Pyramus' father

Ah, Pyramus, my love

Myself, Thisbe's father

Thy Thisbe dear and lady...

Snug the joiner

My Thisbe dear and lady...

I am start and I hope...

Here is a play fitted out new

The lines are written

Pray you, if be...

Give it me, for I am slow of study, study

You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring

Let me play the lion's role

I will roar and I will do any man's heart good who'll hear me

I will roar that I will make the duke say

"Let him roar again." Let him roar again

And you should do it too terribly

You would fright the duchess and the ladies that they would shriek

They would shriek

And that were enough to hang us all

That would hang us

Hang us

Every mother's son

But I will aggravate my voice so that I will

Roar you as gently as any sucking dove

I will roar you

Ante

Any nightingale

You can play no part but Pyramus, for Pyramus is a sweet

Baby man, a proper man, a most lovely gentleman-like man

Therefore, you must needs play Pyramus

Well, I will undertake it

And masters, here are your parts

And I am to entreat you, request you

And desire you to con them by tonight

Here where we rehearse anon

We will meet, and here we may rehearse

Most obscenely and courageously

Take pains

Be perfect

Adieu

And the duet's own we meet

Adieu

Autor(en): Benjamin Britten, William Shakespeare (dramat), Peter Pears

Album Britten Conducts Britten: Opera Vol. 2

Veröffentlichungsdatum

07-10-2004

1 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: Introduction: The Wood
2 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XV - Scene 8: Miles
3 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation II - Scene 3: The Letter
4 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "My Gentle Robin, See'st Thou This Sweet Sight?"
5 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XII - Scene 5: Quint
6 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be Kind and Courteous to This Gentleman"
7 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Now a Roundel and a Fairy Song"
8 The Turn of the Screw, Op.54: Interlude: Variation X - Scene 3: Miss Jessel
9 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Epilogue: Is It All?"
10 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "She Sleeps As a Rose"
11 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Are We All Met?"
12 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VII - Scene 8: At Night
13 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Lanthorn Doth the Horned Moon Present"
14 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "The Prosperity of the Etruscans"
15 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Interlude: Here in This Scene"
16 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "It Is an Axiom Among Kings"
17 Death in Venice, Op. 88: Overture: Venice
18 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now the Hungry Lion Roars"
19 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Hey There, Hey There, You!"
20 Death in Venice, Op. 88: Children's Games: "Adziu, Adziu"
21 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Wall, Fur Often Hast Thou Heard My Moans"
22 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Mysterious Gondola"
23 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "My Mind Beats On"
24 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Who Reaches Heaven First"
25 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Puppet? Why So?"
26 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "There Is Indeed in Every Artist's Nature"
27 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIII - Scene 6: The Piano
28 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VIII - Scene 1: Colloquy and So- Lioquy
29 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Collatinus Is Politically Astute"
30 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation VI - Scene 7: The Lake
31 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Within This Frail Crucible of Light"
32 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Prologue
33 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Theme - Scene 1: The Journey
34 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation III - Scene 4: The Tower
35 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Maria Was Unmasked At a Masked Ball"
36 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "We Are Delighted to Greet the Signore"
37 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "My Horse! My Horse! Tarquinius Does Not Wait"
38 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "You Ladies, You Whose Gentle Hearts Do Fear"
39 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation I - Scene 2: The Welcome
40 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IV - Scene 5: The Window
41 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation IX - Scene 2: The Bells
42 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Gentles, Perchange You Wonder At This Show"
43 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I See Their Knavery"
44 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Naturally, Signore, I Understand"
45 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "You Were Right"
46 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "Oh! What a Lovely Day!"
47 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Have You Sent to Bottom's House?"
48 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: "This Dead Hand Lets Fall"
49 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation V - Scene 6: The Lesson
50 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Ah, Serenissima!"
51 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XI - Scene 4: The Bedroom
52 Death in Venice, Op. 88: "Aou'! Stagando, Aou'"
53 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now, Mad Spirit?"
54 The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54: Interlude: Variation XIV - Scene 7: Flora
55 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: 'There Goes a Happy Man!'
56 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Helena! Hermi! Demetrius! Lysander!"
57 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "What Thou Seest When Thou Dost Wake"
58 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Up and Down, Up and Down"
59 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Hail, Mortal, Hail!"
60 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Sweet Moon, I Thank Thee for Thy Sunny Beams"
61 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Flower of This Purple Dye"
62 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "In This Same Interlude It Doth Befall"
63 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "I Have a Reas'nable Good Ear in Music"
64 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "O Grim-look'd Night, O Night With Hue So Black"
65 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Come, Your Bergomask"
66 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Now, Fair Hippolyta"
67 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "This Is Thy Negligence"
68 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Asleep, My Love?"
69 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Tarquinius does not dare
70 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Here the thirsty evening
71 The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37: Rome is now ruled by the Etruscan upstart
72 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Oberon Is Passing Fell and Wrath"
73 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Well, Go Thy Way"
74 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "How Now My Love?"
75 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Be It On Lion, Bear, or Wolf, or Bull"
76 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Welcome Wanderer!"
77 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Is All Our Company Her?"
78 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Fair Love, You Faint With Wand'ring in the Wood"
79 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Through the Forest Have I Gone"
80 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: "Stay, Though Thou Kill Me, Sweet Demetrius"

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