Britten's confirmed pacifism resulting in various works including this setting for mixed choir of text by Randall Swingler.
Chorpartitur - Knabenchor (SSA) und Orgel - lateinisch
As young as he was, aged only 16, Britten produced in this carol a tiny masterpiece. This is one of the most well-known and best-loved of his choral pieces. Understandably so, too. It has all the ingr...
Text from Psalm 70 (Psalm 69 in the Vulgate).
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...
Cinq chants floraux de Benjamin Britten, op. 47 pour chœur mixte avec accompagnement au piano pour répétition uniquement. Texte de Robert Herrick.
This work had a long gestation as Britten had problems finding a suitable text. Auden was eventually asked and produced the poem in 1940. Britten's setting was immediately recognised as a major additi...
Dieser Meilenstein der Notenausgaben beinhaltet alle 61 Volksliedbearbeitungen von Benjamin Britten (jeweils in einer Ausgabe für hohe und mittlere/tiefe Stimme) und vereint damit die Inhalte aus sieb...
SATB Unaccompanied These settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet, were written while Britten was resident in America. The title is a shorthand form of a pious inscription, Ad Major...
Benjamin Britten's Sacred and Profane consists of eight settings for unaccompanied mixed voices of lyrics from RT Davis' collection of Medieval English lyrics, composed early in 1975 for Peter Pears a...
A series of twelve songs with piano for children composed by Benjamin Britten between May 1933 and August 1934. Published as Friday Afternoons, Op.7, they were written for his brother Robert's prepara...
This fantastic book contains 3 complete suites from Opus numbers 72, 80 and 87. Each suite has background information written by Benjamin Britten for a more authentic performance.
The Ceremony of Carols is one of Britten's best-known and most-performed works. It is a brilliantly conceived and dramatic concert work which sees the voices process to their places singing unaccompan...
Hohe Singstimme und Streichorchester
Knabenchor (SSA) und Orgel
Composed December 1933-February 1934, Britten's Simple Symphony was based on material he wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. 18 minutes.
This Simple Symphony is entirely based on material from works which the composer wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. (The actual sources are given in footnotes to each movement.) Although the d...
This landmark publication includes all sixty-one of Britten's arrangements of folk songs, combining the contents of the seven published books in High and Low Voice editions. Some of the songs have nev...
The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grades 7 & 8). The edition is part of the ABRSM Summer syllabus 2006 (grade 8).
Partitur - Männerchor (TBarB) und Klavier
The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 6).
Cette édition s'adresse avant tout aux élèves de chant et de piano. Elle contient douze de ces précieuses transcriptions de Benjamin Britten, parmi les plus faciles et les plus abordables, de chansons...
These four fantastic cabaret songs are splendid examples of the genre. They not only provide ample evidence of the composer's and poet's wit and high spirits, but are also wholly characteristic of a p...
This opera is the final section of the entertainment for young people called Let`s Make an Opera. The first section of this is in the form of a play and illustrates the preparation and rehearsal of an...
Based on Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream,Op. 64, this 15-minute choral suite was arranged and adapted by Lee Kesselman, and he has remained true to Britten's original score, with so...
The words of the Cantata Rejoice in the Lamb are taken from a long poem of the same name. The writer was Christopher Smart, an eighteenth century poet, deeply religious, but of a strange and unbalance...
Saint Nicolas (note the name has no 'H' in it!) was written for the centenary of Lancing College in Sussex, the independent secondary boarding school on the south coast of England which Peter Pears ha...
A new unaccompanied choral work arranged by Ronald Duncan.
Extrait pour orgue - choeur mixte (SATB) et orgue ; parties solistes ad libitum.
At the opening of Act II of the opera Gloriana, Queen Elizabeth I is on a state visit to the city of Norwich. After a formal address of welcome, she is entertained by a Masque. To these unaccompanied...
Orgelpartitur - gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel - englisch.
Words are taken from the Gradual of the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul.
gemischter Chor und Klavier
Klavierauszug - gemischter Chor und Klavier
for two part children's voices and instruments Scoring: Treble instr 1, Treble instr II, bass instr, 2 perc (timps, sd or tamb, cymb, susp cym, trng, tamb or castanets), keyboard. Optional parts, tran...
Chorpartitur - mit unterlegter Harfen-Stimme
Chorpartitur engl.
Benjamin Britten's Cantata Academica: Carmen Basiliense was composed and didicated to the university of Basle for the celebration of its 500th anniversary. The Latin text was compiled from the charter...
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...
Satz aus dem 'War Requiem' von Benjamin Britten
This Venite, found among his unpublished works after Britten's death, was evidently composed at the same time as his Jubilate Deo in C major, written in 1961 at the request of H.R.H. The Duke Of Edinb...
Soprano/SATB/Organ Accompaniment Britten's Te Deum In C is arranged for Soprano solo, SATB choir and Organ accompaniment. In preparing for publication the 1935 orchestral version of Britten's Te Deum...
Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this set...
63 songs, with extensive historical introductory notes. Includes all art songs originally composed for voice and piano published by Boosey & Hawkes. Available for for High Voice as well as for Medium/...
Lyrics, rhymes and riddles by William Soutar for Tenor and Piano.
Arrangement de 1957 d'une mélodie de Gloriana, l'opéra de Benjamin Britten écrit en 1953. Elle fut enregistrée par Peter Pears et Julian Bream et fit souvent partie du programme de leurs concerts. Cet...
'A Charm of Lullabies' was written in December 1947 for the mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans. Keen to provide her with a work for her recital programmes, Britten was helped in the choice of texts for 'A Char...
English translation by Elizabeth Mayer and Peter Pears
The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8).
Editors' annotations:This edition is not the work of musicologists and therefore the solution of problems such as ornamentation has not been attempted. Most singers today are either unwilling or unabl...