Benjamin Britten

HPS 10

Benjamin Britten's last completed composition, Welcome Ode was originally written for school choir and orchestra. The 3 movements - Jig, Roundel and Canon , here transcribed for strings (score and par...

Britten's Two Portraits for strings - the composer himself called them 'Sketches' - were composed in August and September 1930, during the summer holidays preceding the sixteen-year-old composer's fir...

Benjamin Brittens Suite op. 6 für Violine und Klavier wurde während der Jahre 1934-35 komponiert. Die erste Aufführung des kompletten Werkes fand am 13. März 1936 als Teil einer BBC-Ausstrahlung mit A...

Michael Hurd. A major series of titles containing clear and concise accounts of the lives and music of some of the great composers. Written by leading authorities, they give students a background suff...

Benjamin Britten zählt zu den universellsten Komponisten der Musikgeschichte. Sein Werk ist von tiefer Humanität geprägt, zeugt jedoch zugleich von der Faszination des Ambivalenten. Norbert Abels legt...

A lively setting using the popular I Saw Three Ships text. The choral writing depicts the fresh bracing sonorities of bells.

Anthem for unaccompanied SATB choir from Britten's dramatic cantata The Company of Heaven.

The songs are tender, touching, beguilingly beautiful. John van Rhein, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 1983, Klavierauszug, Original für High Voice and Small Orchestra, Instrumentation: 2.1.2.bcl.2 - 4000 - p...

Curlew River - A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is the first of three Church Parables by Benjamin Britten. The work is based on the Japanese Noh play Sumidagawa (Sumida River) of Juro Motomas...

Of all the parables in the New Testament none has had quite such a universal and ever-renewed appeal as that of the Prodigal Son. With its unforgettable climax of reward and rejoicing being lavished n...