Benjamin Britten Chornoten

Mit »The Golden Vanity« schuf Benjamin Britten ein mitreißendes, dramatisches Vaudeville für Knabenstimmen und Klavier, das Sänger und Publikum gleichermaßen in seinen Bann zieht. Das Werk erzählt die...

In this second Parable for church performance, Britten sustains the influence of the Noh tradition in Curlew River, while taking inspiration from the Biblical story Ananias, Azarias and Misael. It tel...

Tauchen Sie ein in ein mitreißendes musikalisches Abenteuer mit Benjamin Brittens „The Golden Vanity“. Dieses dramatische und humorvolle Werk – untertitelt als „Vaudeville for Boys and Piano“ – wurde...

Tauchen Sie ein in eines der fesselndsten Meisterwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die dramatische Oper „Peter Grimes op. 33“ zieht Musiker und Publikum seit ihrer Uraufführung gleichermaßen in ihren Bann....

A dramatic work of considerable substance, from which individual movements may be performed separately as anthems or concert works. The work sets a variety of texts from authors as varied as John Rusk...

Diese Oper ist der letzte Teil von Let's Make an Opera, einem Unterhaltungsstück für junge Leute. Der erste Teil von Let's make an Opera hat die Form eines Schauspiels, das die Vorbereitungen und Prob...

Diese 15-minütige Chor-Suite von Lee Kesselman basiert auf Benjamin Brittens Oper 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (op. 64). Kesselman hat sich dabei eng an Brittens Originalpartitur gehalten und nur klein...

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...

Britten's last completed work, written for young people's chorus and orchestra, is in five short sections: March, Roundel and Canon for orchestra and choir, and Jig and Modulation for orchestra alone.

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...

A ballad for children's voices and (largely) percussion orchestra setting a long narrative poem by Bertolt Brecht, telling the tragic story of a band of orphaned children lost in the snowy wastes of w...

Scored for solo voice, unison chorus and piano, The Twelve Apostles was written for Peter Pears and the London Boy Singers. The text was adopted from The Ten Commandments as given in 'English Folk Son...

These Christmas carols have become contemporary classics. 'The serene Sweet was the Song' contrasts with a moving lament on the hardships of Christmas, 'A Wealdon Trio', and a memorable setting of Har...

Britten's setting of Edith Sitwell's poem 'Praise We Great Men', was left unfinished at his death. It was being written for Mstislav Rostrpovich to include in his first season with the National Sympho...

These part-songs were the first of Britten's works to be published. In 1932 Britten showed the pieces to John Ireland during discussions about proofs and possible transpositions. First called Three S...