Benjamin Britten

Enthält 2 Spielpartituren. Erstveröffentlichung der Bearbeitung für Klavierduo von Brittens frühem Meisterwerk für Orchester, den Variationen über ein Thema von Frank Bridge, op. 10. In seinem Vorwort...

Nobuko Imai is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993), Japan's Suntory...

Set of parts for Phantasy in F Minor for string quintet (two violins, two violas and cello)and lasting 11 minutes. Phantasy in F Minor won the Cobbett Prize for chamber music at the Royal College of M...

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...

Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broa...

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...

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...

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...

Composed December 1933-February 1934, Britten's Simple Symphony was based on material he wrote between the ages of nine and twelve. 18 minutes.

Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broa...

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...

These early songs were writt en during the composer's schooldays, whilst he was studying with Frank Bridge . But even at this tender age, Britten already had such accomplished works as Quatre Chansons...

This arrangement of a song from Britten's 1953 opera 'Gloriana' dates from 1957. It was recorded by Peter Pears and Julian Bream and often included in their recital programmes. This exquisite arrangem...

'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...