Yesterday’s Beautiful Music honored William Shakespeare with music composed for his plays during his lifetime. Today’s Beautiful Music features Benjamin Britten’s opera A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM adapted by Britten and his partner Peter Pears from Shakespeare’s play. This performance is a star-studded classic recording from 1966 with the composer conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, with Peter Pears in the role of Lysander, along with Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Stephen Terry, Richard Dakin, John Pryer, Ian Wodehouse, Gordon Clark, Eric Alder, John Shirley-Quirk, and Helen Watts.