Benjamin Britten Noten für Orchester

Es gilt neben den Opern als sein Meisterwerk: Brittens War Requiem, 1962 uraufgeführt zur Einweihung der neuen Kathedrale in Coventry, die den im Krieg zerstörten Vorgängerbau ersetzte. Britten nutzte...

Es gilt neben den Opern als sein Meisterwerk: Brittens War Requiem, 1962 uraufgeführt zur Einweihung der neuen Kathedrale in Coventry, die den im Krieg zerstörten Vorgängerbau ersetzte. Britten nutzte...

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...

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....

Text from English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes, edited by Alfred Pollard.

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...

It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destr...

Scored for Tenor Solo, SATB Chorus, SA Semi-Chorus, 4 Boy Singers and String Orchestra, Piano Duet, Percussion and Organ.

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...

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...

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...

Vocal score to Benjamin Britten's The Rescue of Penleope , for narrator, four solo voices and orchestra. The concert version of the radio drama The Rescue (1943) prepared by Christopher de Souza i...

Love from a Stranger was a 'thriller' starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone, based on an Agatha Christie short story, Philomel Cottage. As well as Britten's score, the film also included excerpts fr...

Britten was so remarkably prolific as a young composer that many of the works from his teens were put aside to await revision or completion as he rushed on to the next piece. This was particularly the...

The first broadcast of the incidental music for D. G. Bridson's radio drama, King Arthur was given on 23rd April (St. George's Day) 1937. The first performance of this Suite for Orchestra was given on...

This concert version has been prepared by Donald Mitchell for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Baritone soloists, 1 or 2 speakers, SATB choir and Orchestra. The text has been compiled by R. Ellis Roberts. Th...

In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum in C, it became clear that there were a number of discrepancies between the manuscript and the original 193 vocal score. S...

These two previously-unpublished Psalm settings were written while Benjamin Britten was studying at the Royal College of Music in London but, despite encouragement from Ireland, Vaughan Williams and H...

A Simple and effective setting of a poem by Thomas Hardy, mostly in unison with some elementary two-part singing. Ideal for a school choir.

A committed pacifist born into a renowned military family is met with a torrent of disapproval over his beliefs yet desperate to keep the love of his would-be bride, Owen is determined to prove his in...

Drafted (as a piano duet) in March 1941 for, but not used at, the first production of Paul Bunyan; it was not re-instated in the revival, for which a new short introduction was composed. The work was...