Benjamin Britten Noten für Gesang

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...

Lyrics, rhymes and riddles by William Soutar for Tenor and Piano.

Um Mitternacht, written by Benjamin Britten with words by JW von Goethe, includes an English translation by Andrew Porter. Taken from 'The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs'. Arranged for low/medium voice an...

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...

These early songs were writt en during the composer's schooldays, whilst he was studying with Frank Bridge . But even at this tender age, Britten already had such accomplished works as Quatre Chansons...

Poems by Pushkin, with English & German translations

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...

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A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards.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A terrific collection that brings together nine of Britten's previously unpublished songs, written over a period of 25 years from 1935 onwards.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