F. Laperleaux

The Oxen is a lamenting poem of Thomas Hardy's set to music by esteemed composer Benjamin Britten, arranged for upper voices with piano accompaniment.

This work was composed for the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations and requires a large adult chorus of men and women, and a smaller children's choir placed separately with its own conductor a...

Britten's last opera, Death In Venice , is based on the short story by Thomas Mann. It follows the inner turmoil of the ageing novelist Gustav von Aschenbach, who becomes infatuated by a boy he sees o...

Britten's The World of the Spirit was written for BBC Radio in 1938, his second collaboration with R. Ellis Roberts. The wide-ranging texts from religious books, poetry, and newspaper articles about t...

1 oder 2 Spr, Soli (SATBar), gemCh (SATB), Orch - Klavierauszug

This work was originally written in 1964 for two 12 year old twin brothers whom Britten met whilst working in Budapest. Each twin played the piano, and one the flute and the other the violin. A second...

The incidental music to the BBC radio serialization of T.H. White's book was composed in May 1939, soon after Britten's arrival in Canada, and was broadcast in six episodes during June and Jul...

The 'Sonate en Trio' op. 46 was commissioned by Hannelore Müller, member of the Barock Trio of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and composed 1969. The first version for historical instruments was premi...

The 'Sonate en Trio' op. 46 was commissioned by Hannelore Müller, member of the Barock Trio of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and composed 1969. The first version for historical instruments was premi...

For Violin, Viola and Piano (Reduced from the orchestra version). Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or compl...

Sonata decima (X), Sonata undecima (XI) a cinqua

Dieses Werk wurde vom internationalen Philip-Jones-Wettbewerb in Guebwiller, Frankreich, als Satz für Horn in der Endrunde 2001 in Auftrag gegeben und besteht aus drei Episoden, die ohne Unterbrechung...

Written as a ballet for small orchestra. This work lasts c. 25 minutes and was first performed on 25/1/2004 at the Royal College of Music, London by the Royal College of Music Sinfonietta, conducted b...

Dieses Werk wurde vom internationalen Philip-Jones-Wettbewerb in Guebwiller, Frankreich, als Satz für Horn in der Endrunde 2001 in Auftrag gegeben und besteht aus drei Episoden, die ohne Unterbrechung...

I chose Solissimo as a general title for a series of works for unaccompanied instruments. The first part of Solissimo III for clarinet alone – Lento – was written in the form of a passacaglia. A low t...

I chose Solissimo as a general title for a series of works for unaccompanied instruments. The first part of Solissimo III for clarinet alone – Lento – was written in the form of a passacaglia. A low t...

Seganona, the Celtic title for this suite of impressions is originally the oldest name of the Swiss river that is today called Sarine (the name has gradually been changed over the years to comport pho...

Seganona, the Celtic title for this suite of impressions is originally the oldest name of the Swiss river that is today called Sarine (the name has gradually been changed over the years to comport pho...

Dieses Werk wurde aus Anlaß meines 80. Geburtstages (11. November 1997) in Auftrag gegeben. Es wurde 1996 komponiert und besteht aus drei Sätzen, die jeweils eine Hommage an eine Person darstellen: 1)...