Benjamin Britten

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...

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...

Vocal Range: b-f''The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 6)

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...