Benjamin Britten

Music of profound beauty from one of the greatest vocal music composers of the past 100 years, set to text by T.S. Eliot. This is one of Britten's five canticles and was first performed at The Malting...

Instrumentation: Gustav von Aschenbach(T),the traveller/multiple role(B-Bar),the voice of Apollo(counter-tenor) 2(=picc).2.2(II=bcl).2 - 2221 - timp - perc(5): 2 SD/2 TD/2 BD/tuned drum/3 tom-t/3 ch.d...

These songs were written at the special wish of Her Majesty the Queen for her mother's seventy-fifth birthday, August 4th 1975. Its first public performance was given on the 9th January 1976, at Schlo...

The story of the American folk hero follows the development of the American continent from virgin forest to civilization. It does so in a deliberately eclectic style. Spoken dialogue is interspersed w...

These four songs are taken from A Birthday Hansel Op.92 which was written at the special wish of Her Majesty The Queen for her mother's seventy-fifth birthday, 4th August 1975. All of the songs are wo...

1. Beware! (Henry Longfellow from the German) 2. O That I had ne'er been married (Robert Burns) 3. Epitaph: The Clerk (Herbert Asquith)

A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards. Many were originally intended to be part of song-cyles b...

A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards. Many were originally intended to be part of song-cyles b...

Five songs by Pelham Humphrey, William Croft, John Blow and Jeremiah Clarke all realised by Benjamin Britten.

The French vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Golden Vanity for accompanied boy's voices. Instrumentation: 3 treble, 2 alto soloists, treble/alto chorus - pno - drum

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for high voice with piano accompaniment in F. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

Britten's luminous setting of the anonymous sixteenth-century hymn. This edition is arranged for low voice with piano accompaniment in C. Duration: 2½ minutes. Difficulty Level: 3

The Rainbow by Benjamin Britten for 2-part boys' or women's voices and piano from Three Two-part Songs.

The Ship Of Rio by Benjamin Britten for 2-part boys' or women's voices and piano from Three Two-part Songs.

Britten's Jubilate is arranged for SATB choir and Organ accompaniment. Benjamin Britten's birthday (22nd November 1913, Lowestoft) falls on St. Cecilia's Day, a happy augury for the career of one of B...

This Venite, found among his unpublished works after Britten's death, was evidently composed at the same time as his Jubilate Deo in C major, written in 1961 at the request of H. R. H. The Duke Of Edi...

These two previously-unpublished Psalm settings were written while Benjamin Britten was studying at the Royal College of Music in London but, despite encouragement from Ireland, Vaughan Williams and H...