Eoin Hamilton

Five settings of poems by Walter De La Mere arranged for Medium Voice and Piano Accompaniment. These settings were written by Benjamin Britten in his childhood, and were collected together in honor of...

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A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards.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A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards.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

This is the full text of the speech made by Benjamin Britten when he was presented with the first Aspen Award at Aspen, Colorado, on 31st July, 1964.It is a fascinating document in which, for the firs...

Throughout his compositional work, Benjamin Britten did his part to support young people in their musical education---one has only to think, for example, of works such as The Young Person's Guide to t...