Midsummer night.

Table of Contents: “…Midsummer night (Miss Julie) (3:42) / Alwyn -- The nightingale's aria (The nightingale) (3:36) / Stravinsky -- At the haunted end of the day (Troilus & Cressida) (3:06) / Walton -- The trees on the mountains (Susannah) (5:09) / Floyd -- Song to the moon (Rusalka) (6:32) / Dvorak -- Embroidery aria (Peter Grimes) (6:08) / Britten -- Vilja-Lied (Die lustige Witwe) (6:07) / Lehar -- Do not utter a word (Vanessa) (4:49) / Barber -- Tiny's song (Paul Bunyan) (4:11) / Britten -- Rossignol (Monsieur Beaucaire) (4:26) / Messager -- How beautiful it is (The turn of the screw) (5:35) / Britten -- I have dreamt (Wuthering Heights) (2:30) / Herrmann -- Marietta's Lied (Die tote Stadt) (5:57) / Korngold.…”
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Recordings for A history of western music, fourth edition, by Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, and Norton anthology of western music, second edition, edited by Claude V. Pal...

Table of Contents: “…Sechstes Bild / Hindemith (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Ursula Koszut, soprano; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Kubelik, conductor) -- Peter Grimes. To hell with all your mercy / Britten (Peter Pears, tenor; Claire Watson, soprano; James Pease, bass-baritone; Orchestra and Chorus of Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Benjamin Britten, conductor) -- Rake's Progress. …”

Anthology of twentieth-century music /

Table of Contents: “…Hoedown / Aaron Copland -- A mirror on which to dwell "Argument" / Elliott Carter -- TV Köln / John Cage -- Peter Grimes. Interlude IV and Act II, scene 2 / Benjamin Britten -- Semi-simple variations / Milton Babbitt -- Three fantasies. …”