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Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor, educator, composer of a wide range of music from large-scale operas and choral works to string quartets and songs, is acknowledged as a pivotal figure in…
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Antje Reineke
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die erste umfassende Studie zu Benjamin Brittens 15 Liederzyklen. Aus der Analyse der musikalischen Strukturen und Textfolgen bietet sie einen UEberblick uber Brittens vielfaltige Zykluskonzeptionen und…
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This study discusses Britten’s published compositions in subdivisions of genre and period, and devotes a separate chapter to each opera. With the help of over 300 music examples and diagrams…
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Cameron Pyke
Explores Benjamin Britten’s deeply-felt cultural affinity with Russia and influences on the ‘Russian’ Britten.
Britten in Context offers historical, social, cultural, queer, musical, and political context for one of the pivotal British composers of the twentieth century. Engaging essays from leading scholars in music…
French vocal score with a translation by Mildred Clary of The Golden Vanity which was composed in 1966 for performance by the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir, who commissioned it from…
Britten wrote Irish Reel in 1936 as the title music for a documentary film entitled ‘Around the Village Green’. It is a bravura piece, exhibiting all the energy and strong…
A confession of faith from a great musician which should awake a response in the hearts of the rest of us, whether we are musicians or not, and whether we…
Titles: Echo * My Heart * Angel * The Nightingale and the Rose * Epigram * Lines written during a sleepless night
A ballad for children’s voices and (largely) percussion orchestra setting a long narrative poem by Bertolt Brecht, telling the tragic story of a band of orphaned children lost in the…
Titles: Overture * Toccata * Nocturne * Fugue * Hymn (St. Denio)
Vocal Score (Eng/Ger)
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…
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…
In 1935 Britten hinted that a large and elaborate suite for oboe and strings was gestating in his mind. However, this work did not materialize and instead he wrote the…
Written for, and dedicated to, Sylvia Spencer, Two Insect Pieces comprise of ‘The Grasshopper’ and ‘The Wasp’ and last 5 minutes in total. The Two Insect Pieces were composed in…
Scored for solo voice, unison chorus and piano, The Twelve Apostles was written for Peter Pears and the London Boy Singers. The text was adopted from The Ten Commandments as…
Parts for Russian Funeral for brass and percussion ensemble. First performed under the title 'War and Death, an impression for brass orchestra.' The main theme is a Russian Revolutionary song…
Titles: Nuits de Juin * Sagesse * L'Enfance * Chanson d'Automne
Titles: The Cold Wind Blew * The Spring Came and the Summer Fall * So Helson Smiled and Bunyan Smiled
Score of Three Divertimenti and Alla Marcia for string quartet, lasting 12 and 3 minutes respectively. Originally titled Alla quartetto serioso, ‘Go play, boy, play’, Three Divertimenti was written in…
Set of parts for Three Divertimenti and Alla Marcia for string quartet, lasting 12 and 3 minutes respectively. Originally titled Alla quartetto serioso, ‘Go play, boy, play’, Three Divertimenti was…
Commissioned by the BBC for broadcast at the opening concert of the Third Programme, the work was described in the Radio Times as Festival Overture . The work lasts 8…
The lesser known of Britten’s settings of Psalm 100. Jubilate Deo in E-flat was intended as a companion piece to the Te Deum in C, and is an exuberant, joyful…
Titles: Andante-allegro molto e con fuoco * Poco adagio * Allegro molto vivace
Britten’s last orchestral work, lasting 14 minutes and lovingly and reverently dedicated to Percy Grainger takes as it starting point fragments of tunes from Playford’s The English Dancing Master of…
This musical work Moderato & Nocturne, from composer Benjamin Britten, is put together for the solo piano.
Britten’s Elegy was first performed at The Maltings in Snape, Suffolk, by Nobuko Imai in 1984 as part of the 37th Aldburgh festival. This beautiful piece was originally sketched by…
Britten composed this engaging set of Twelve Variations during his first year at the Royal College of Music, London in 1931, shortly before beginning work on his String Quartet in…
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.
Scored for orchestra and lasting 27 minutes, Suite from ‘Death In Venice’ is less of a suite, and more of an operatic symphony , this continuous orchestral work functions like…
Composed in early 1929 whilst he was studying at Gresham's School, Britten's Rhapsody for string quartet lasts for 7 minutes and received its first public performance in 1985 at the…
Composed in early 1929 whilst he was studying at Gresham’s School, Britten’s Rhapsody for string quartet lasts for 7 minutes and received its first public performance in 1985 at the…
Full score of Phaedra, which was written as a vehicle for the remarkable talents of Dame Janet Baker. Modelled on the Italian Baroque cantatas of Handel, the series of arias…
Written in March 1936 and lasting 6 minutes in total, the Two Lullabies for two pianos were composed for Benjamin Britten’s BBC audition as a piano duo with Adolph Hallis…
Study Score
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…
Five songs from Harmonia Sacra, for High Voice and Harp or Piano, all realised by Benjamin Britten. Titles: A Hymn on Divine Musick * Lord! I Have Sinned * Hymn…
Benjamin Britten wrote his String Quartet in F in April 1928, shortly after he began lessons with Frank Bridge. He was fourteen at the time and it is thought that…
Vocal score Taken from Britten's score to the 1943 radio drama, The Rescue, based on Homer's Odyssey, this melodrama stands alongside his finest music of the period, such as Peter…
Considered one of the most influential works of the twentieth century for classical guitar, it was composed for guitarist Julian Bream who premiered the work in Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 12th…
Based on a theme of Kodaly and written for the precociously talented twins, Zoltan and Gabor Jeney, this 15-minute piece for flute, violin and piano 4 hands can be performed…
Rehearsal Score (Eng/Ger)
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…
Titles: llegro maestoso * Lento ed espressivo * Allegro giocoso
