The original recording, and still in many ways the best.

Choirs of Downside and Emanuel Schools, London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten, 1966.

Cast: Alfred Deller (Oberon), Elizabeth Harwood (Tytania), Stephen Terry (Puck), John Shirley-Quirk (Theseus), Helen Watts (Hippolyta), Sir Peter Pears (Lysander), Thomas Hemsley (Demetrius).

Decca 425 663-2

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