Benjamin Britten

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...

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...

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...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 6).

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...

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...

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...

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...